Via the Washington Post, President Donald Trump now officially on the hot seat:
The special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election is interviewing senior intelligence officials as part of a widening probe that now includes an examination of whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice, officials said.
The move by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate Trump’s own conduct marks a major turning point in the nearly year-old FBI investigation, which until recently focused on Russian meddling during the presidential campaign and on whether there was any coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Investigators have also been looking for any evidence of possible financial crimes among Trump associates, officials said.
Trump had received private assurances from former FBI Director James B. Comey starting in January that he was not personally under investigation. Officials say that changed shortly after Comey’s firing.
This can’t be called unexpected, since FBI Director James Comey’s revelations about his final meetings with President Trump before being fired very plainly told a story consistent with the crime of obstruction of justice. Comey’s firing only further confirms Trump’s intentions, which Trump was in turn quite happy to confirm to Russian diplomats shortly afterward.
In short, it would be much harder to explain after all this why Trump shouldn’t be personally under investigation than why he is.
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Happy birthday, Two Scoops!!!!
Let's send Trump an orange jumpsuit for his birthday!
Dio, I thought you were kidding.
It is his birthday.
Muller: Happy Birthday, Mr. President. I got you something.
Trump: An indictment! You shouldn't have, Bob. You really shouldn't have.
Aaanndd… another one! Happy Birthday, TwoScoops!
AHO for DAPL victory. Another piece of "good news"
From my posting on May 27. Check off Article I:
Time to play America's fastest growing game: Name Those Articles of Impeachment!
Here is my list. How many do you have?
Article I. Obstruction of justice. (see: Comey firing, et al.)
Article II. Espionage. Including covert communications with a hostile foreign adversary.
Article III. Money laundering. What did happen with that Cypress bank? How did Trump and Kushner avoid bankruptcy?
Article IV. Tax evasion. See # III above.
Article V. Security clearance fraud. (a felony punishable up to a five year sentence). How many undisclosed meetings with the Russians does it take to revoke Kushner's clearance?
Article VI. Failure to execute the office of the presidency. Trump has already recklessly disclosed top secrets to the Russians in the Oval Office that outed intelligence assets within ISIS established by the Israelis, and 2) Disclosed to dictator Dueterte the location of two US nuclear subs.
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And the NY Times dutifully supplies a story on Mueller's investigation that ends with another hint that he's looking into money laundering that might have gone on between Russian affiliated money and Trump's associates.
Why, I think that's quite a good list, for starters.
Boy if the Washington Post says it is true, it must be so.
Or, in your case, if Der Sturmer said it, it must be true.
Just to follow you through the looking glass: If Trump says it's true it isn't?
Your difficulty is that Donnie has actually admitted obstruction of justice. He said multiple times that he fired Comey in order to put an end to this "Russian thing":
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They did call it correctly in 1972. Or are you one of those good party shills who still insists that Nixon was framed?
Yeah, AC, and now what do you say?
Lamborn wishes Trump a happy birthday. And I hope this image comes back to haunt him. Ye backed the wrong horsie, Dougie me boyo.
May #ProsperityJesus shower you with an abundance of material blessings on your birthday! 🎉
And may Mathew 25 Jesus welcome you to his family for the way you have championed the least among us.
I thought he was more of the theological school of "two Corinthians walk into a bar together…."
Donald loves him his limp-wristed toad eaters!
( "Give this little guy some sprinkles on my scoops!")
Dio commented on another thread how Trump loves to humiliate his supporters. Notice how he's yanking Lamebrain off balance in that photo op? Forcing him to have a cross-body handshake?
Ugh. Contemptible, both of them.
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