Former FBI Director James Comey was furious at the lack of respect the White House showed him in the way he was fired, sources have told ABC News.
Associates say he is simmering at some of the comments directed at him by White House staffers, who have used words like "atrocities" to describe his actions as director.
One person close to the former director said that President Trump calling Comey a "showboat" and suggesting he is not "competent" has required Comey to show considerable restraint.
(No no, don't show restraint, speak man speak!)
A source said they expect that at some point Comey will respond to Trump -- but it is uncertain when that would be. For now, Comey has taken a few days to gather himself, particularly given how caught off guard he was by the timing of the firing.
So perhaps he will speak..I don't know....next Tuesday to that Senate Intelligence Committee?
As for Trump's attempts to threaten Comey, consider that bluff called:
Oh man, I think we are ALL hoping there are tapes.A source close to Comey told me this morning: “He hopes there are tapes. That would be perfect.”— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) May 12, 2017
There are also reports that FBI agents are scrambling to make progress on the Russian investigation for fear the Trump Administration will "kneecap" it before it reaches a conclusion.
Courtesy of the Daily Beast:
Two well-connected former FBI employees told The Daily Beast that counterintelligence agents working on the Russian counterintelligence program out of FBI headquarters in downtown Washington met for drinks in the hours after their boss’s firing and shared their concerns: that they would be reassigned elsewhere, and their work on the Russian-Trump associates investigation would come to a grinding halt.
There are also Right Wing operatives, including our own Sarah Palin, who argue that Comey was not popular among FBI agents.
However that was refuted by Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe who said that Comey had "broad support" within the agency.
And it is also refuted by this:
The Daily Beast said at least a dozen agents posted images on their private Facebook pages of themselves with Mr Comey, or else of Mr Comey alone.
The gesture is apparently usually reserved for a colleague who dies in the line of duty.
I think it is pretty clear that Trump has kicked a hornet's nest.
Let the stinging begin.
DRUMPF HIM$ELF!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/12/trump-descends-madness-threatening-replace-sean-spicer.html
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/12/democrats-force-trump-turn-tapes-docs-comey-correspondence.html
"Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requested that all tapes and correspondence between Trump and former FBI Director James Comey be turned over to congressional investigators."
How the fuck would the Wasilla Wendigo know about anything going on in the FBI? She doesn't know jack shit about any of this, but she is so desperate to remain relevant that she will spew her deranged verbal vomit anywhere. We have the Orange Shitgibbon and also the Wasilla Shitgibbon, both losers.
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She's just parroting what she heard on Hannity.
DeleteDemocrats Are About To Force Trump To Turn Over All Tapes And Docs Of Comey Correspondence
ReplyDeleteIn a letter to Trump's White House counsel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requested that all tapes and correspondence between Trump and former FBI Director James Comey be turned over to congressional investigators.…
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/12/democrats-force-trump-turn-tapes-docs-comey-correspondence.html
Things Get Even Worse For Trump As Adam Schiff Demands Any Secret White House Recordings
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/12/top-house-intel-democrat-adam-schiff-demands-trump-turn.html
The tapes or records of the conversations, whether digital or not, will simply be destroyed. Trump has precedent for that in what Bush and CO. did in the first weeks of 2009. It's a bit like destroying embassy files as the enemy invades the building.
DeleteBeaglemom
Trump , you buffoon are no longer just a buffoon!
ReplyDeleteYou own your disrespect to all of us .None of which is going unnoticed . You have shit on the one you brought to this dance.
You made your bed you disgusting ugly dumb dipstick !
May you get fucked by your own family .Beware , as you have no friends. Only enemies.
OT?"Please disregard the man from the bondage porn videos whom 4chan’s politics board and several white supremacist sites repeatedly accused of punching white nationalist Richard Spencer in the face. That was all just a big misunderstanding."
Delete"By the time he didn’t punch Richard Spencer on Jan. 20, 2017, Ray Bailey had been dead for 422 days"
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/the-dead-guy-4chan-blamed-for-punching-richard-spencer
$HITgibbon
DeleteWell, that sums it up ya think?
ReplyDelete#With a few exceptions is trending on Twitter because of a Trump lawyer claiming Trump had no income from Russia
ReplyDelete"Withafewexceptions..
Like saying Bristol Palin is still a virgin, #withafewexceptions.
Trump's lawyer works for the firm that was the Russian law firm of the year in 2016.
DeleteCute.
DeleteROTFLMAO!
Deleteooops!
DeleteOJ Simpson never killed anyone #withafewexceptions
Oil tankers never have oil spills #withafewexceptions
DeleteI'm not a gun humping ammosexual.
Delete#withafewexceptions
Our #TrumperTantrum little boy president needs a time out. An intervention is in order but apparently so far I don't see anyone on the GOP with the balls to do that. But they sure as hell better bring their own tape recorders when they meet with him!
ReplyDeleteFeelings, Values....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/after-devos-debacle-black-university-cancels-commencement-address-from-gop-sen-cornyn/
RR"With his firing of the FBI director, Trump's impeachment becomes even more likely."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/RBReich/videos/1564205730258684/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
He ought to be pissed! Look, I don't care very much for the man after his October surprise against Hillary Clinton, which was so fucking political that the stench sickened every cow in India... but good fucking god... what Trump did to this man is unreal. Talk about a power play fuck off.. Fuck Donald the pig Trump ...
ReplyDeleteI want to see Trump's "power play" blow up in his face.
DeleteBeaglemom
I would never have believed the man's reputation in the eyes of Democrats could be salvaged so quickly. As one pundit said, the charitable interpretation of Comey's actions last October is -- has always been -- that he is a true Dudley Do-Right type who takes very seriously his responsibility to crusade for truth, justice, and the American way. Some of the stuff that's come out recently seems to support this, e.g., his comment about being "mildly nauseated," and his refusal to give tRump the loyalty oath he asked for. As a Federal employee myself, I am also impressed by what we heard last week about his leadership of the agency: going the extra mile to support the troops, etc. I've been around the gov't for a while, and some directors were better than others. But none deserved to find out they were fired by seeing a headline pop up on a television.
DeleteBut, to summarize, tRump has not only pissed off the (now former) Director of the FBI by treating him with a total lack of respect, and not only left him with no concerns about losing his present position, he has also pissed off most if not all of the law enforcement agency Comey used to lead. A winning move if ever there was one.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/the-trump-tapes-what-we-know/
ReplyDeleteIf Trump's White House Has Secret Recordings, Destroying Them May Be a Crime
ReplyDeleteThe president's Twitter outburst could wind up causing him a major headache.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/destroying-any-secret-white-house-recordings-could-be-a-crime
Hopefully, IMPEACHING his fat ass! He's a proven idiot!
DeleteThe Bush II White House was not the least bit concerned about destroying records. They knew that no one would do anything.
DeleteWhat they did was one of the reasons that President Obama insisted on keeping such meticulous records, including the visitor log. White House records actually belong to the American people. They're a resource for future historians. I guess Republicans do not want future historians to tell the country's story with any accuracy.
Beaglemom
He's a fucking maniac.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/white-house-staff-react-in-real-time-as-trump-tweets-jesus
Jesus!
Deletesame thing the baby daddies said 9 months before each paylin basturd?
There probably aren't tapes. Nobody uses tapes anymore in the digital world. If they exist, they are digital recordings - files made up of ones and zeros.
ReplyDeleteThere is absolutely too much ridiculousness in this administration for it to be able to survive. From the nepotism to the actual dereliction of duties of the POTUS, the meeting photographed with the Russian delegation without POTUS knowledge and now this possible illegal taping of the Comey meetings, which were very strange to begin with, I can't imagine that this guy is going to have to resign before shit gets really real for him.
ReplyDeleteNot even to mention the "Trump lawyers saying there was no indication of Russian income in his last 10 years of tax returns". As if the media or the public should take this at face value? It's not so much the income we're concerned with, it's the loans and having a POTUS that is financially "on the hook" to Russian lenders.
FFS, could any of this get any more ridiculous?
"FFS, could any of this get any more ridiculous?"
DeleteIt already is. Elected officials supporting this wanton breach of the US Constitution and the Rule of Law.
God bless America. :)
GeorgiaPeach
https://twitter.com/RogueSNRadvisor/status/863050876658663424
ReplyDeleteStaff treating Pres like a cornered raccoon. Keeping distance, holding sticks (info) & waiting for animal control (FBI).
Love that! Thanks for posting.
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DeleteI know, right? It's all just made up but it is always amusing. If our country was what we all think it is this kind of stuff would be true, but alas, it's not and it's a welcome bit of a comedic interlude though.
Whoever is writing these "rogue" accounts should have a job on TV!
A coon cornered in the barn or shed ain't no joke.
DeleteAnd sure as fuck we got our choice of animal control no waiting needed. 22 is quick and easy but a 12 Gauge scattergun will do if a little mess and collateral damage ain't no big thing!
OT"Under the 2008 Farm Bill, its leader is supposed to serve as the agency’s “chief scientist” and be chosen “from among distinguished scientists with specialized or significant experience in agricultural research, education, and economics.”"Clovis was also responsible for recruiting Carter Page, whose ties to Russia have become the subject of intense speculation and scrutiny, as a Trump foreign policy advisor."r Clovis, nor the USDA, nor the White House responded to questions about Clovis’ nomination to be the USDA’s undersecretary for research, education and economics."“Access to safe food and clean air and water is absolutely fundamental to personal security,” she said, adding that a scientific understanding of food safety is critical to success in the job.". A biography he provided to the 2016 Fiscal Summit at which he was a speaker indicates he is “a federalism scholar” and “an expert on homeland security issues,” with “regional expertise in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East.” Neither this biography nor any other publicly available biographies list any experience in food safety, agriculture or nutrition."
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/busted-trumps-expected-pick-for-top-usda-scientist-is-not-a-scientist/
Sam Clovis is way nuttier than Joanie the Nutcutter Ernst who beat him in the Senate primary.
DeleteThis week's "trade agreement" with China guarantees us some really bad food in the future. What does Trump care? His restaurants get bad marks from food inspectors all the time.
DeleteBeaglemom
Hey, I would be too. Seeing myself on the news as fired.
ReplyDeleteSo, dump must have gotten "loyalty" pledges from gop members.
ReplyDeleteInvestigate, investigate, Impeach! Gop resign.
Better check for secret dills!
DeleteOh yes yes yes the tapes please. Its gonna be worst than Nixon tapes you can bet on it. Trump is in the dump. He is the liar, he bribes, threatens, extorts and cheats. And he is caught hook line and sinker. The guy is satanic and evil. He is mentally ill and stuck. He has ruined his family. He has ruined his life. He sucks beyond words. He is the most disliked human on the planet today. How does that feel trump?
ReplyDeleteI hope that President Obama's admin 'bugged' every single room in the WH, and that every single uttered word is being recorded somewhere, where the orange abomination does not know and has no access to the record!
DeleteAs nice as that may sound, 12:13, without a court order - which is HIGHLY unlikely - NONE of the info on the recordings would be admissible and might also go a long way toward making legitimate information inadmissible as well.
DeleteBesides, it is probably illegal in and of itself.
Nice dream, though, if it could happen legally.
I know the NSA is listening to all of us, but isn't it still illegal to tape a private conversation without all parties' consent? I would expect that all conversations in the white house are recorded. Wouldn't Comey know that? Wouldn't Trump know that too? So why would Trump think this is a threat with teeth? And does he really think he doesn't live in a fish bowl now?
ReplyDeleteGeorgiaPeach
Trump taunts, LOL. Isn't that what he's best at?
Deletehttp://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/president-trump-unleashes-fired-fbi-director-james-comey-fake-media-n758341
Oh,and fuck all these elected idiots who think nobody's paying attention.
I'm nobody and I am paying attention.
GeorgiaPeach
Because he's crazier then a shithouse rat.
DeleteIn many ways Trump is Nixon on steroids.
DeleteBeaglemom
Wednesday, October 21st, 1973 -- Richard Nixon tweets: "Archibald Cox, you'd better keep your mouth SHUT - there might be tape recordings!"
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