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spanone

(135,864 posts)
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:09 AM Feb 2018

trump is willing to destroy the FBI to save his ass.

after all, he thinks they work on his behalf.

Trump sees Nunes memo as a way to discredit the Russia investigation



Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump continues to tell his associates he believed the highly controversial Republican memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools could help discredit the Russia investigation, multiple sources familiar with White House discussions said.

The President continues to direct some of his anger toward his Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
In phone calls last night and over the past days, Trump has told friends he believes the memo would expose bias within the agency's top ranks and make it easier for him to argue the Russia investigations are prejudiced against him, according to two sources.

Trump was upset Wednesday in the wake of the FBI's statement challenging the release of the a controversial memo crafted by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, led by Chairman Devin Nunes, a Trump ally. The statement was issued just hours after the President made clear he wanted the document public.

White House aides and advisers expect a decision from Trump on whether to release the controversial memo on Thursday, an official tells CNN, but the President has already made clear he is inclined to approve the document's release.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/politics/nunes-memo-donald-trump/index.html
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trump is willing to destroy the FBI to save his ass. (Original Post) spanone Feb 2018 OP
Shitler is willing to destroy AMERICA to save his ass! n/t fleur-de-lisa Feb 2018 #1
...and he's starting with the FBI...anyone who defies the king will be destroyed spanone Feb 2018 #2
I would not be surprised if he helped to write it. kentuck Feb 2018 #4
You mean dictate it? dchill Feb 2018 #7
i suspect that's why it changed AFTER the house signed off on it.... spanone Feb 2018 #17
He wants loyalty bdamomma Feb 2018 #13
Why not? atreides1 Feb 2018 #15
And all elected Republicans are more than willing to join him. nt DURHAM D Feb 2018 #3
Not all, but terrifyingly many. (n/t) FreepFryer Feb 2018 #5
Can you name one member of the U.S. House or Senate DURHAM D Feb 2018 #8
LOL. List all those who are, and cite your proof, before making blanket assertions. Onus is on you. FreepFryer Feb 2018 #19
And moreover, since the FBI is FAR from destroyed, we have yet to know. (n/t) FreepFryer Feb 2018 #20
One Reporter yesterday MFM008 Feb 2018 #28
Are you not paying attention to the news? DURHAM D Feb 2018 #22
Apparently Im paying more attention than you. FreepFryer Feb 2018 #35
LOL DURHAM D Feb 2018 #36
Im not defending repubs - Im defending democrats bycalling out hyperbolic bullshit posts like yours. FreepFryer Feb 2018 #37
Yes. This. GoCubsGo Feb 2018 #9
Wait a minute! Dread Pirate Roberts Feb 2018 #25
He already has! Initech Feb 2018 #31
One needs to ask... Zoonart Feb 2018 #6
He has always hated the FBI bdamomma Feb 2018 #10
All these former generals HopeAgain Feb 2018 #11
it's truly hard to believe how these 'patriots' are allowing this to happen on their watch spanone Feb 2018 #18
Hell take us all down C_U_L8R Feb 2018 #12
not me bdamomma Feb 2018 #14
He has nothing to lose HAB911 Feb 2018 #16
It's a Hairbrained, Kramdenesque, Desperate Scheme, Executed by Ignorant, Incompetent Buffoons that Skraxx Feb 2018 #21
To be kind malaise Feb 2018 #23
true spanone Feb 2018 #27
FBI is willing to destroy Trump to save America. lagomorph777 Feb 2018 #24
Just that statement alone is "obstructing law breaking "! imanamerican63 Feb 2018 #26
He'll take us all down with him... Wounded Bear Feb 2018 #29
Trump continues to confirm that this Presidency was always about him, never about the country. BoneyardDem Feb 2018 #30
Trump would be willing to destroy anyone or anything to save his own ass. k and r Stuart G Feb 2018 #32
Bingo! spanone Feb 2018 #33
One thing he doesn't realize, trying to destroy the FBI must backfire. WHY? Stuart G Feb 2018 #34
Expect more of this. Calista241 Feb 2018 #38
His whole life he's used people and discarded, betrayed or pursued vendettas against them. Orsino Feb 2018 #39
Trump is a traitor and is committing treason Gothmog Feb 2018 #40
Trump sees Nunes memo as a way to discredit the Russia investigation..how is this not... spanone Feb 2018 #41
Of course he's willing.. but my Cha Feb 2018 #42
They are after him and being unfair just because he broke the fucking law! world wide wally Feb 2018 #43

spanone

(135,864 posts)
17. i suspect that's why it changed AFTER the house signed off on it....
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:33 AM
Feb 2018

it probably wasn't toxic enough

bdamomma

(63,919 posts)
13. He wants loyalty
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:20 AM
Feb 2018

what a sick ass, he doesn't know shit

has no inkling for the rule of law, the Constitution or what this country stands for.

atreides1

(16,092 posts)
15. Why not?
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:25 AM
Feb 2018

He already has the State Department and the DOD in his back pocket, along with the DOJ, EPA, HUD, DOEd. DOEnergy, and Interior!

He also has the entirety of the Republican members of Congress backing him...and soon the US military will be swearing allegiance to Der Fuhrer, as he pisses on the Constitution!!!

MFM008

(19,818 posts)
28. One Reporter yesterday
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 12:08 PM
Feb 2018

Said the greatest enabler of the maggot in chief is PAUL RYAN. As speaker of the house he is most powerful in Congress and next in line after Pence for presidency.
Trading off so he can destroy this countries social safety nets.
He sees all and knows all.
All to take away a poor old lady's SSI or a child's health care.
Could this dumpster fire administration/ congress
be anymore immoral.
They will take down the CIA..FBI.. who ever it takes to achieve their goals.

DURHAM D

(32,611 posts)
22. Are you not paying attention to the news?
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:42 AM
Feb 2018

Name one Republican federal elected official who is not going along with the Nunes tripe.

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
37. Im not defending repubs - Im defending democrats bycalling out hyperbolic bullshit posts like yours.
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 02:56 PM
Feb 2018

You said All - and couldn’t prove it.

You then asked for one - and I gave you one.

Don’t get so upset that you start to make personal attacks now...

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
9. Yes. This.
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:15 AM
Feb 2018

In releasing that memo, he's also exposing many of our intelligence gathering techniques.

This treasonous sack of feces and and his fucking toadies have made me reconsider my opposition to capital punishment. I'm torn between wanting to seeing the whole lot of them rot for the rest of their miserable lives behind bars, or seeing them put in front of a firing squad. They are a waste of our air, water, and other valuable resources.

Initech

(100,100 posts)
31. He already has!
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 12:41 PM
Feb 2018

The damage this fucking shithole administration has already done to this country will be felt for decades regardless of who's in power. Argh, I hate them so much.

bdamomma

(63,919 posts)
10. He has always hated the FBI
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:17 AM
Feb 2018

this is the systematic dismantling of the US government, he is doing what Putin and others are instructing him to do, while lying to the American people saying we are the best, and all of that shit he is spewing.

He is not a well man at all mentally delusional paranoid and everything else negative he embodies. Just a very hateful ???? shell.

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
11. All these former generals
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:18 AM
Feb 2018

like Kelly, McMaster and Mattis who sit idly by while their traitor-in-chief compromises the intelligence and security apparatus of the U.S., are nothing more than self-serving lackeys. Makes me wonder how many of our military leaders are nothing but self-interested lowlifes.

Skraxx

(2,981 posts)
21. It's a Hairbrained, Kramdenesque, Desperate Scheme, Executed by Ignorant, Incompetent Buffoons that
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:40 AM
Feb 2018

make the keystone cops look like models of competence.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
24. FBI is willing to destroy Trump to save America.
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:50 AM
Feb 2018

As are hundreds of millions of other patriots.

Trump is toast.

 

BoneyardDem

(1,202 posts)
30. Trump continues to confirm that this Presidency was always about him, never about the country.
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 12:38 PM
Feb 2018

The fact that he has literally invited Russians to occupy the Whitehouse, has made every effort to discredit and block the organization that has knowledge and ability to step in between our Democracy and Russia, tells me all I need to know.

Stuart G

(38,439 posts)
34. One thing he doesn't realize, trying to destroy the FBI must backfire. WHY?
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 12:59 PM
Feb 2018

Who has more veracity?....Trump or the FBI..?

Whatever he says against the FBI, would likely backfire. All people will do is accuse Trump of lying and trying to destroy an agency that has some people who are critical of him. The more effort that Trump puts into trying to hurt or destroy the FBI, the more he hurts and destroys himself.

and yes...............................He is that stupid....................

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
38. Expect more of this.
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 03:01 PM
Feb 2018

The President has the legal authority to de-classify anything he wants.

If Mueller recommends articles of impeachment (which i personally still think is unlikely), be prepared for all kinds of things to come out. If Fusion GPS was anywhere in the FISA warrant, I would expect the whole thing to be "leaked" or "declassified." That might be enough for Republicans to label it a partisan witch-hunt and ignore any recommendations from Mueller and his staff.

And unless you think we can get 30ish Republicans in the Senate to go along with impeachment, it's a lost cause.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
39. His whole life he's used people and discarded, betrayed or pursued vendettas against them.
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 03:53 PM
Feb 2018

To cover his ass or even just for amusement.

spanone

(135,864 posts)
41. Trump sees Nunes memo as a way to discredit the Russia investigation..how is this not...
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 06:48 PM
Feb 2018

obstruction of justice?

world wide wally

(21,754 posts)
43. They are after him and being unfair just because he broke the fucking law!
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 08:41 PM
Feb 2018

What a bunch of idol worshippers they are.

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