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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump has boxed Rosenstein and Christopher Wray into a corner.
Either they can obey his order to release the secret information on Russia that Bruce Ohr was working on, or they can resign or they can be fired.
It's a disgraceful abuse of power when a president is willing to sacrifice national security in an attempt to save his own ass.
In the past, both Rosenstein and Wray have indicated that this would be a red line that they could not cross.
So what should they do?
In my opinion, they should not release the information that Trump is demanding. Neither should they resign from their positions. They should make Trump fire them.
And I suspect that may be his next move?
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)If you're a 3rd grader.....
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)What on earth are you basing this on? One person's desperate here, and it's not Rosenstein or Wray.
watoos
(7,142 posts)and his Republican traitors.
The media's questions won't be about the release of confidential information that will cause the exposure of sources and methods and may cost lives.
With all of the indictments and convictions and guilty pleas, Republicans, with the help of the M$M, are still trying to prove that the Mueller investigations are political, a sham.
The argument they were using about the high cost of the investigation just got shot down with the forfeitures by Manafort of his properties.
The headline from the M$M, if it was truly impartial, should be that Trump is committing impeachable offenses, that Trump is committing abuse of power, that Trump should be impeached.
elmac
(4,642 posts)they love war and disasters for the same reason. We have no true national media in this country.
global1
(25,251 posts)Don't release info. Don't resign. Issue statement that indicates this is an on-going investigation & Trump is overstepping here. Put Trump in a position that he has to fire.
This is too close to the Midterms for Trump to create a 'massacre'. The Repugs should move to stop Trump from firing or they risk losing both the House & Senate because the Dems will make it a major issue for the Midterms.
Stand up to this bully & then make impotent after the Midterms when the Dems gain control. Then make life miserable for Trump with the committee's.
Stand up to Trump & the Repugs!!!!!
In my opinion, that is the direction we are headed.
watoos
(7,142 posts)can stop Trump from firing Rosenstein, Sessions, or Mueller, is by threatening to impeach him. At this stage of the game, with Manafort and Cohen flipped, Trump is smack dab in a corner against the wall. Trump is scared shitless. His collusion with Russia is about to be exposed. His money laundering is about to be exposed. His tax fraud is about to be exposed. To add insult to injury, narcissist Trump is about to be exposed as a sexual lightweight, to put it nicely, in Stormy Daniel's upcoming book.
Trump never wanted to become president. He was happy living under his golden rock pretending to be somebody. Mueller is lifting the rock and the world will see that Donald Trump is just a gold plated cockroach.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Definitely in the top five descriptive phrases concerning Trump
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Lets be very accurate....
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Texin
(2,596 posts)Let the chips fall where they will.
ewagner
(18,964 posts)mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)he is that dangerous.
kentuck
(111,098 posts)I think this shows that he is in a panic. This is his reaction to the Manafort plea deal.
watoos
(7,142 posts)I keep looking for his starting a war, I keep looking for a Reichstag fire.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Trump is just dying to drop a nuke....if he thinks it would shield him at all, he will deploy and god help us all from there.
kentuck
(111,098 posts)and the Republican Party is complicit all the way.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)but why should the rest of us??? for this POS tRump. Get him the hell out.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)kentuck
(111,098 posts)They could say that they did their best to follow the trump's orders, but that our national security would be threatened if the information was not redacted. Also, they could say that surely the trump does not want to sacrifice our nation's security? They could change the debate on that point.
tblue37
(65,391 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Lots of stuff to find and be sure its the right stuff he wanted released, could take years.
watoos
(7,142 posts)this is what they already did. Trump is removing the redactions.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)That's a great idea. Release it with nothing but black bars over everything but the page numbers and an occasional conjunction.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)unblock
(52,243 posts)releasing them heavily redacted remains an option, though donnie can then still fire them for not abiding by his order....
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)If that risks being fired, so be it. They should stand up for Rule of Law. Trump cannot fire them with impunity if they go public. Trump's is a rolling coup that is dismantling the US Government. Congress is not doing its part, or at least the Republican part of Congress. Mueller is doing his bailiwick.
okwmember
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Another example of Trump's administration combining malevolence with incompetence.
Don't remember where I read it, but apparently this is the president enacting the Because I Said So Act of 2018
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...the famous "resistance inside the Trump administration."
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)spanone
(135,841 posts)lancelyons
(988 posts)Wray should resign to send a message.
that is what should happen.
Slowly trump is taking over the FBI and the DOJ and making them his personal attack group.
There will have to be some large scale cleaning of the FBI and DOJ after trump is gone.
It might have to be a full blown firing of all people that supported trump. Democrats should review all text messages of all agents and get rid of all agents that supported trump.
This is why trump is dangerous.
When the COns have POLICE helping them, The US MILITARY helping them, DOJ, FBI.. it wont be long before the power in USA is strictly conservative.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)I bet Trump won't do it before the elections....he might ask his little demons in Congress like Nunes and others start demanding investigations....but it won't work and it will only endanger the GOP right before the elections....
Let Trump fire them....it will just be a further example and evidence of Obstruction of Justice that he can hang himself with....