Trump sees Nunes memo as a way to discredit the Russia investigation
Source: CNN
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.
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riversedge
(70,286 posts)bluestarone
(17,025 posts)no doubt about his reasons!!!
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)is to destroy the truthtellers. We have Nov 2018 to show them what we the american people believe and we don't believe serial liars like trump or his people or republicans
AJT
(5,240 posts)If he doesn't have enough to indict anyone higher up on the food chain by now then he must be struggling to put any real case together. Rosenstein will be fired, and so on until Mueller is ousted. The FBI and CIA will see mass firings and those positions will be filled with far right enforcers and our democracy is done.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)After all of the tips and "Breaking News" BS -- Mueller needs to step up and bring the case NOW -- as Trump has gone on and done way too much already. WTF is taking so long?
BumRushDaShow
(129,376 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,376 posts)makes your argument "all for naught".
I.e., unless a civil servant goes on strike, there can be no "mass firings".
I am not saying that it is not frustrating as hell but also take into account some interesting critical things that are going on at the same time (like Gowdy leaving) that are signals.
I like ubiquitous twitter poster Hoarse Whisperer's tweet -
Link to tweet
TEXT
The Hoarse Whisperer @HoarseWisperer
I would so love a day where no one on the left rolls out the self-defeating and undermining things like:
It doesnt matter. Repubs are just gonna ______.
None of this gonna change ______.
Were already sunk because of ______.
So damn tiring. So damn unhelpful.
9:47 AM - Feb 1, 2018
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"Mueller is Taking WAY TOO LONG Now..."
It then begs the question: Approximately how long should it take, and on what objective measure is that reponse based on?
procon
(15,805 posts)brilliant idea, this too will backfire and blow up in their faces yet again.
The massive Trump opposition forces are armed and ready with pens in hand. The nationwide resistance army is locked and loaded, computers primed to fire off the opening fusilade. The fearless keyboard warriors of the mighty internet are rallying their followers to act.
If Trump releases the fake memo, within minutes, the opposition insurgents will launch the first wave of attacks against the lies, half truths and cherry picked data churned out by Republicans. As the battle rages on, our valiant troops in the field will be unraveling the memo line by line and replacing the rigged state propaganda with hardcore facts.
Take heart folks, Republicans might think this is Trump's get out of jail card, but remember, Mueller is still in the trenches, sapping away at their plots.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...for firing Rosenstein or Mueller, as well as a justification for obstruction of justice.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)this is aimed at people who think Obama was born in Africa. They would believe anything.