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struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
Thu May 18, 2017, 01:21 PM May 2017

Special counsel is bad news for White House

By James Hohmann
May 18 at 11:02 AM

The White House tried .. to downplay .. the Justice Department appointing a special counsel to investigate possible coordination between President Trump’s associates and Russian officials ...

... Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein called up White House Counsel Don McGahn at 5:30 p.m. to give him a head’s up that he was going to make the announcement half an hour later. A senior administration official told reporters that Trump was “unbelievably calm and measured” ...

Undercutting the party line a little .. the president took to Twitter .. to express frustration about the .. investigation and .. present himself as the victim of a witch hunt ...

... There would be no special counsel if Trump had not fired James Comey .. and then confessed that he did so with Russia on his mind. This is .. another reminder of .. how .. the .. president’s impulsive decision and its bungled rollout has backfired ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/18/daily-202-special-counsel-robert-mueller-is-bad-news-for-trump-s-embattled-white-house/591cfc03e9b69b209cf2b853/

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Special counsel is bad news for White House (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2017 OP
"unbelievably calm and measured".. furtheradu May 2017 #1
That, or Sessions fore warned him. ATL Ebony May 2017 #4
Nope, Sessions didn't know until after it was done justiceischeap May 2017 #5
S.W.E.E.T -- Didn't know that, thanks for info. ATL Ebony May 2017 #6
"measured response" Trump shit bricks Skittles May 2017 #2
Well, "Special" means it's good, right? uppityperson May 2017 #3

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
5. Nope, Sessions didn't know until after it was done
Thu May 18, 2017, 02:34 PM
May 2017

He was with 45 interviewing for the FBI Directir job. Rosenstein did this behind their backs.

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