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Rew says

please see Mr. Comey's other statements as well.

Which statements? Be specific and provide quotes please

Lawfare has some awesome analysis going ...

https://www.lawfareblog.com/two-reflections-comey-statement

CBOEtrader says

Which statements? Be specific and provide quotes please

No. You can go get them, or I'm sure they will be compiled by a reputable news organization soon ... but essentially the comments are:

Trump dangled his job, asked for loyalty, asked him to back off of Flynn, and asked him to drop Russia. Comey also expressed he didn't want to be alone with Trump, and that he felt compelled to take careful notes due to Trump being a liar. Those notes, by the way, now with Mueller.

My favorite quote today though: "Lordy, I hope there are tapes."

Paul Ryan's defense of Trump is hilarious:
“He’s new to government. And so he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between D.O.J., F.B.I. and White Houses. He’s just new to this.”

CBOEtrader says

Wait until team Trump fights back.

Please let Trump speak soon. None of this pansy lawyer representation crap. Let's hear from the man himself. Gonna be awesome.

Rew says

"this Russian thing" will haunt him until

Until the press implodes under the weight of its own continuous evidence-free accusations.

Trump already won, testimony made this clear
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/06/08/gregg-jarrett-comey-exonerates-trump-so-much-for-obstruction.html

Rew says

CBOEtrader says

Wait until team Trump fights back.

Please let Trump speak soon. None of this pansy lawyer representation crap. Let's hear from the man himself. Gonna be awesome.

Rew says

Trump dangled his job, asked for loyalty, asked him to back off of Flynn, and asked him to drop Russia. Comey also expressed he didn't want to be alone with Trump, and that he felt compelled to take careful notes due to Trump being a liar.

Yeah I heard most of those. Innuendo combined w ad hominem don't equal evidence.

Rew says

Paul Ryan's defense of Trump is hilarious:

“He’s new to government. And so he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between D.O.J., F.B.I. and White Houses. He’s just new to this.”

Comey mentioned in today's testimony that he only met privately w obama twice!

Business requires personal relationships and therefore is absolutely not conducted like this. In fact, the best businessmen are most influential 1 on 1. Paul Ryan's statement is fair

Obamas presidency was mostly affirmative action style campaign from the left, man wasn't good at business

CBOEtrader says

Rew says

Paul Ryan's defense of Trump is hilarious:


“He’s new to government. And so he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between D.O.J., F.B.I. and White Houses. He’s just new to this.”

Comey mentioned in today's testimony that he only met privately w obama twice!

Business requires personal relationships and therefore is absolutely not conducted like this. In fact, the best businessmen are most influential 1 on 1. Paul Ryan's statement is fair

rando says

Until the press implodes under the weight of its own continuous evidence-free accusations

Yeah I am having fun. These coastal echo chamber folks are funny. me thinks you are from the midwest and so have some common sense baked in.

CBOEtrader says

Comey mentioned in today's testimony that he only met privately w obama twice!

Business requires personal relationships and therefore is absolutely not conducted like this.

The FBI isn't a business. Sorry you weren't aware of that. The head of the FBI should not be meeting with the president and until trump they almost never did.

bob2356 says

The head of the FBI should not be meeting with the president

There are potentially thousands of reasons why they should meet. I find it bizarre that it hasn't happened more often.

Either way, Comey's testimony destroyed the obstruction narrative.

Its time to maga

CBOEtrader says

bob2356 says

The head of the FBI should not be meeting with the president

There are potentially thousands of reasons why they should meet. I find it bizarre that it hasn't happened more often.

No there aren't any reasons for the president to directly interact with the FBI. The FBI is under the AG. If the president has a question he should ask the AG. Then there is no question of propriety. Which is always the way it was done until trump. You didn't pay much attention in government 101 did you? .

Obligatory...

www.youtube.com/embed/UpHiZAne1aY

Quigley says

This is and always was destined to be a time for fireworks and much scandal as the POTUS cleans house of all the accumulated rats and cockroaches.

bob2356 says

No there aren't any reasons for the president to directly interact with the FBI. The FBI is under the AG. If the president has a question he should ask the AG. Then there is no question of propriety. Which is always the way it was done until trump. You didn't pay much attention in government 101 did you? .

www.youtube.com/embed/MJ15ymETv-s

You think Dershowitz would go on CNN and make an ass of himself?

Trump could have Pardoned Flynn if he wanted to, and/or told Comey to drop the investigation, or can his ass for refusing to do so.

He didn't, though he had the absolute authority to do so.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

Trump could have Pardoned Flynn if he wanted to, and/or told Comey to drop the investigation, or can his ass for refusing to do so.

He didn't, though he had the absolute authority to do so.

Say what?

Trump did fire Comey, and went on national TV saying it was because he wouldn't drop the Russian investigations into Flynn. Further, from Comey's testimony, Trump looks like he was trying to coerce Comey to drop the investigation beforehand.

The President has the authority to do a lot of things, but the intent and purpose of doing those things determines legality or not.

Muller onto a criminal investigation now. The ball keeps rolling forward.

BlueSardine, do you understand what a f*ed up claim that is? You think a strong American government can function like that?
Can you explain Flynn in that light as well? Good lord. This isn't try before you buy! This is run the country and lead the free world time. Better figure it out fast Trumpkin, or get the hell out.

(If America was a business, and I saw Trump as the new CEO operating like this, easy short money.)

Yes, but it looks realistic. Remember his roots are that game show
Rew says

BlueSardine, do you understand what a f*ed up claim that is?

Thats yet to be determined.
However if he's stumbled on to the right people it could work.
Rew says

You think a strong American government can function like that?

BlueSardine says

However if he's stumbled on to the right people it could work.

Lots of stumbling, not a lot of hiring, and embroiled in scandal with more people on the way out than in.

This administration is DOA. GOP congress will try and do whatever they can, but the White House ain't steering the boat at all.

Trump has already ceded Americas world leadership role. He doesn't want it while in the try to buy mode.
He is executing what he knows best
Rew says

This isn't try before you buy! This is run the country and lead the free world time

Agreed
Trump is the Drano and Congress is the drain stopper.
It was always going to be a gamble putting the bull in the china shop.
Half the country thought it was time to gamble given the entrenched establishment and their corrupt ways.
Rew says

GOP congress will try and do whatever they can, but the White House ain't steering the boat at all.

Democrats are lost, testimony vindicated Trump. So the only thing left has now is just throwing insults out. What a group of anti American clown losers.

FortWayne says

Democrats are lost, testimony vindicated Trump. So the only thing left has now is just throwing insults out. What a group of anti American clown losers.

LOL

Muller has a criminal investigation going, is being pushed toward independence, Comey handed over his evidence to him, and Comey is the very FIRST witnesses in the public facing Senate investigation, in what will be a a series of long investigations for the Trump administration.

Get cozy. We got a full year or more of three investigations going now. Yes ... THREE!

The trip point was letting the trannys in the bathrooms with the 6 year olds while the democratic establishment cheered them on, all the way up to obama. Who in their right mind would expose their kids to that?
FortWayne says

Democrats are lost, testimony vindicated Trump. So the only thing left has now is just throwing insults out. What a group of anti American clown losers.

Trump isn't being investigated, it's what Comey said. You are just ignoring reality.

Rew says

FortWayne says

Democrats are lost, testimony vindicated Trump. So the only thing left has now is just throwing insults out. What a group of anti American clown losers.

LOL

Muller has a criminal investigation going, is being pushed toward independence, Comey handed over his evidence to him, and Comey is the very FIRST witnesses in the public facing Senate investigation, in what will be a a series of long investigations for the Trump administration.

Get cozy. We got a full year or more of three investigations going now. Yes ... THREE!

BlueSardine says

Who in their right mind would expose their kids to that?

This was never an issue until the GOP in N. Carolina made it one. My god. Just drop it .... (whiz, shake/wipe, zip, and go on your way.)

:) In the age of coed restrooms in the workplace, the old timers ask for hoop skirts to return.

FortWayne says

Trump isn't being investigated, it's what Comey said. You are just ignoring reality.

That's right. He wasn't, not by Comey at that specific time. What do you think about now under Muller's criminal investigation? Anything changed? ;)

Trump just MADE HIMSELF part of the Senate investigation, and I've got good money he is a person of high interest for Muller.

Hint: You don't try and block investigations to keep yourself out of them. You get out of the way, instead.

The loss to Trump here is epic, regardless of how you heard the testimony:
- Comey testified nationally in the first place
- Russian investigations now have a full fire under them (3 of 'em)

They are single user coed restrooms.
The tranny was in a multi stall female restroom. There are no multistall coed restrioms.
Rew says

In the age of coed restrooms in the workplace, the old timers ask for hoop skirts to return.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

bob2356 says

No there aren't any reasons for the president to directly interact with the FBI. The FBI is under the AG. If the president has a question he should ask the AG. Then there is no question of propriety. Which is always the way it was done until trump. You didn't pay much attention in government 101 did you? .

www.youtube.com/embed/MJ15ymETv-s

You think Dershowitz would go on CNN and make an ass of himself?

Trump could have Pardoned Flynn if he wanted to, and/or told Comey to drop the investigation, or can his ass for refusing to do so.

He didn't, though he had the absolute authority to do so.

What are you babbling about? Whatever it is it has no correlation to what I said.

Comey admitted Lynch attempted to obstruct Justice
Comey admitted he had friends leak memos
Comey admitted Trump was not under investigation; which the media has been mocking that Trump tweet for months.
Comey put egg on the NYT's face

And then there's this bomb:
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/09/532286723/special-counsel-robert-mueller-had-been-on-white-house-short-list-to-run-fbi

So far, not a single claim of TDS has been realized.

The aftermath confirms that the MSM is an Oligarch Controlled Industry desperate to get rid of Trump.

Now, it's time to start investigating all the House Members who had dealings with the Awan Brothers

bob2356 says

No there aren't any reasons for the president to directly interact with the FBI.

Watch the damn video. The President can tell the FBI Head to investigate or to drop the investigation, that he's fired, or whatever the hell else he wants.

Remember Clinton and William Sessions? Bush and Caspar Weinberger?

Oh, one more thing. As a reminder, the Podesta Group got big money from the same Ukrainian Group that gave money to Manafort.

Except it took them years to file a disclosure. It's time for Trump to start some investigations.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

Comey admitted Lynch attempted to obstruct Justice

Comey admitted he had friends leak memos

Comey admitted Trump was not under investigation; which the media has been mocking that Trump tweet for months.

Comey put egg on the NYT's face

LOL, and this :)

CBOEtrader says

Yeah, tough week for trump. LOLZ.

Rew says

That's right. He wasn't, not by Comey at that specific time. What do you think about now under Muller's criminal investigation? Anything changed? ;)

doubt it. This whole story is just the Democrats version of birth certificate stunt Trump pulled on Obama. It's just BS.