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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/report-trump-was-mad-comey-wouldn%e2%80%99t-utter-three-important-words/ar-BBAXyyk?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U348DHPWe have a very guilty man/child here.
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Former FBI Director James Comey was fired Tuesday, in part, because he would not publicly state that there were no links between the Trump administration and Russia, according to a source inside the White House.
A person with knowledge of conversations about Comeys dismissal told The Wall Street Journal that there was growing frustration among President Donald Trumps associates that the former FBI director would not tamp down questions about the presidents alleged connection to Russia.
He refused to say those three little words: Theres no ties,' the source told WSJ about Trumps decision to fire Comey without any forewarning. Comey was appointed in 2013 and had not yet served 6 years of what should have been a 10-year term.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Is he now a witness? Does he have to continue to stay silent on "on-going" investigations? Or can he stop at the first microphone and sing everything he knows (that isn't classified)?
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)and no one has been paying attention- Read through Claude Taylor and Louise Mensch's tweets if you don't believe me.
Wawannabe
(5,641 posts)You are proposing Comey as leaker?
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)Or someone high up the ranks in the FBI.
groundloop
(11,518 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,831 posts)Cha
(297,136 posts)sweet poetic justice.. we can expect more then
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)Trump's election makes Comey want to vomit... and he said it on TV.
Vainglorious baby-Prez Trump hit the roof.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)CousinIT
(9,239 posts)He fired Comey for essentially (however badly) doing his job protecting and defending the US, US laws & constitution instead of defending and protecting TRUMP (which is apparently what TRUMP thinks the FBI director's job is)
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)What a coincidence? rump meets with czar's minion today via Yahoo and AFP
Russia's Lavrov to meet with Trump on Syria amid uproar
AFP
Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump will receive Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov at the White House on Wednesday, even as a political firestorm has put Moscow's alleged meddling in the US election back in the spotlight.
Lavrov's visit, confirmed by the White House late Tuesday, centers on a Russian proposal to de-escalate the violence in Syria's civil war.
But it comes just a day after the president stunned Washington by firing James Comey as director of the FBI amid an investigation into whether Trump campaign aides colluded with Russia to sway the November elections.
The sacking prompted angry Democrats to call for the Russia probe to be placed in the hands an independent prosecutor or commission.
The uproar seemed certain to complicate Lavrov's mission in search of US support for a Russian plan to create safe zones in Syria.
"Just as we do, the Americans need this meeting," Lavrov told Russian television.
In Moscow, meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin met Wednesday with his security council to discuss US-Russian relations in the context of Lavrov's meeting with Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the RIA Novosti news agency.
Lavrov first holds talks with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and then goes on to the White House to meet Trump.
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mountain grammy
(26,618 posts)I expected him, in the good Russian tradition, to drop dead the next day.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice. Comey investigating Trump/co-conspirators for Hatch Act violations.
Truth-suppressing acts by co-conspirators Sessions, Flynn, Kushner create liable for Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice. 18 U.S.C. §§ 1621 to 1623 -- Given perjury, subornation of perjury, false declarations, the assertion of a false affirmative statement by an individual testifying under oath accompanied by other obstructive, evasive testimony, such as a false denial of knowledge or memory, an offense may exist. 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 372--conspiracies to commit any offense against the United States, or to prevent or retaliate in response to the lawful discharge of the duties of Federal officers ...
18 U.S. Code § 1505 - Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees
..... Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress
Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Granted, one is a contraction, which might be considered a single word instead of two......