Trump Tricked Into Obstructing Justice: GOP Rep Says
Source: Newsweek Magazine
TRUMP TRICKED INTO OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY FIRING COMEY, ACCORDING TO GOP CONGRESSMAN'S CONSPIRACY THEORY
BY JESSICA KWONG ON 4/14/18 AT 3:29 PM
Republican Representative Jim Jordan has come up with another conspiracy theory for special counsel Robert Muellers Russia probe. Jordan alleged that deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the investigation, plotted for President Donald Trump to fire former FBI Director James Comey to trick Trump into possibly obstructing justice. Jordan suggested that Rosensteins motive was to appoint a special counsel who would probe Trump for obstruction of justice.
The Ohio Congressman explained his theory on MSNBC Friday, when host Katy Tur asked for his thoughts on Trump pardoning Scooter Libby, a former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney who was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury around the disclosure of a CIA agents identity.
Do you think that it looks a little bit suspicious for the president to pardon somebody who was convicted of lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice when all this stuff is going on? Tur asked.
I will tell you what looks strange, or to use your words, suspicious. What looks strange is when Rod Rosenstein writes the memo on why you should fire James Comey, James Comey then leaks a document to create momentum for Bob Mueller to be the special counsel, Rod Rosenstein gets Mueller to be the special counsel, and one of the things that Mueller is looking into is, was there obstruction of justice in the firing of James Comey, Jordan replied.
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sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Don't listen to Jordan and don't repeat his words. In addition to the above, he's a propagandist.
Remember the way the GOP twisted Benghazi into a political tool, Jordan, tool of Koches?
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Wants to be the next Speaker. One nasty,little self serving Freedom Caucus Fool.
Or,as Mike Barnicle calls him, The guy who does not own a jacket! Pretending to be a working guy.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)The smart ones realize that Ayn Rand is pablum for highs schoolers.
The dumb ones can be bought or fooled by the Koch network. See also: Paul Ryan, a tool of the Koches from start to end, who achieved nothing in his tenure but a tax cut for the Koches for which he received a $500k legal bribe.
bluestarone
(17,012 posts)will do ANYTHING FOR THERE LORD N CHIEF
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,031 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)so many of the republicans are so stupid it defies logic. How do they manage to get elected.
bucolic_frolic
(43,252 posts)Is there a good choice there?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)The ten ton whale in the room is the size of the corruption compared to the 20 pound opossum that many Republicons think is the issue. They are in for a severe shock.
People like McCONnell who are complicit know most of the dimensions but aren't saying much.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)I guess defending Cheeto is a lot like food poisoning.
NanceGreggs
(27,817 posts)... is stupid enough, ignorant enough, and incompetent enough to be "tricked" into obstructing justice, doesn't that go to prove that he's too stupid, ignorant and incompetent to be running a nation in the first place?
What next? Trump was "tricked" into running a phony university and a phony charity, scamming investors out of their money, cheating workers out of their compensation, grabbing pussies, screwing porn stars, lying on a daily basis AND colluding with the Russians?
also shithole tricked into the bankruptcy of the USA and starting WW3 . .
Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)Which ain't far from the truth, just not in this scenario, lol.
keithbvadu2
(36,869 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,928 posts)Even if they did---they didn't----that means Trump was legally outsmarted. Too bad, they should've been more careful. I like presidents who aren't tricked.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)This HAS to be from The Onion, right...?
Skittles
(153,174 posts)LonePirate
(13,429 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Who dupe an American public too brainwashed and stupid to know they're being used, too ignorant to see "Craftsman" tattooed across their tool foreheads.
A crime is a crime. There should be a higher standard in place for the man or woman who leads the free world. If they're dumb enough to be "tricked" when a bevy of advisers is scolding them not to capitulate and they do anyway, then they get what they deserve. Trump makes his own decisions; isn't that what these assholes love so much about him? They argue both sides of the coin but both sides are dirty as hell.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Trump wanted to shift blame for firing Comey off of himself.
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/19/529147240/rosenstein-on-comey-memo-i-wrote-it-i-believe-it-i-stand-by-it
I wrote a brief memorandum to the Attorney General summarizing my longstanding concerns about Director Comey's public statements concerning the Secretary Clinton email investigation.
My interpretation: Rosenstein was asked to spitball a speculative list of reasons Trump might fire Comey, which he provided, imagining it to be sausage-factory insider information that they would discuss privately. The next day, Trump whips out this list saying "Rosenstein wrote me this memo telling me to fire Comey, so I guess I gotta do that..." Which is not the case. Rosenstein, despite ostensibly being in Trump's camp on this, was understandably pissed to be thrown under the bus like that.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)for biggest RWNJ lying buffoon, or what??
Nitram
(22,845 posts)He forgot to mention that Trump publicly stated soon after the cooked-up reasons for firing Comey, that he fired him because of the Russia investigation.
Cha
(297,503 posts)he is.. but the DUMBSHIT already admitted he was guilty, DUMBASS.
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)it's STILL obrustion of justice. You don't get a pass for being being a dumb ass!!!
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)I thought king con was a self described genius?
sprinkleeninow
(20,254 posts)On a more serious note, I am at times of denial in my intellect that which we are experiencing. The USofA.
LudwigPastorius
(9,164 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 15, 2018, 04:20 AM - Edit history (1)
How does one get tricked into obstructing justice 10 times over?!