One of President Donald Trump's closest confidantes is speaking privately next week to congressional investigators looking into Russia meddling, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
Keith Schiller, a long-time adviser to Trump who left the White House in September after serving as director of Oval Office Operations, is expected to appear next Tuesday before the House intelligence committee, according to two of the sources. Schiller had long been by the President's side, and was the aide dispatched by Trump in May to deliver the news to the FBI that James Comey had been fired as bureau director.
The Russia interviews -- at least a half-dozen this week and next -- show that the committee's probe, which has often been marred by partisan squabbles, is still chugging along through its witness list. The witnesses coming before the panel include Trump administration and campaign officials, former Obama administration officials and one of the eight individuals who was present for the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr., a Russian lawyer and several others, according to the sources.
Rep. Mike Conaway, the Texas Republican who is leading the probe after House intelligence chairman Devin Nunes stepped aside earlier this year, has said he wants to wrap up the inquiry as quickly as is feasible. But California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the panel, has accused Republicans of trying to rush certain witnesses so the investigation can end.
Schiller has worked for Trump for almost two decades.
He was also the one who accompanied Jared Kushner on his trip to Iraq, and delivered the note to James Comey telling him that he was fired.
So yes, he knows stuff. Possibly a lot of stuff.
However I am not at all confident that being interviewed in private will do anything to move the investigation forward, and I have zero confidence in the House Intelligence Committee's ability to do this job effectively.
I would much prefer having Schiller interviewed by the Mueller team and I hope that is something that has already happened, or is scheduled to happen in the near future.
I'd still like to know what credentials get you on the "intelligence" committee because I fail to see any.
ReplyDelete$ and pledge of Loyalty.
DeleteWhen Schiller was asked if he saw any collusion with Russians, he replied ... "Nyet, comrade."
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!
DeleteOT? "rump says Fox's Megyn Kelly had 'blood coming out of her wherever' ... "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. In my opinion, she was off base."
ReplyDelete"“I brought my Bible. And they liked that,""
"Mary Trump gave birth to five children between 1937 and 1948, and she nearly died from severe hemorrhaging and an abdominal infection after the birth of her youngest son, Robert, when Donald was a toddler.
“A 2½-year-old is going through a process of becoming more autonomous, a little bit more independent from the mother,” Smaller told Politico. “If there is a disruption or a rupture in the connection, it would have had an impact on the sense of self, the sense of security, the sense of confidence.”
Trump’s mother was forced to withdraw from family life as she recovered from the infection and four emergency surgeries, and one expert said that experience could have made a crucial impact on the future president."
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/03/mary-macleod-trump-donald-trump-mother-biography-mom-immigrant-scotland-215779
" “That’s why I’m so screwed up, because I had a father that pushed me pretty hard,”"She and her husband had sent their fourth and most incorrigible child, who as a boy threw cake at kids at parties and erasers at his teachers at his private elementary school, first to Sunday morning Bible classes, like his siblings—and then, unlike his siblings, to a stringent military academy an hour and a half upstate shortly after he turned 13." “they’ve experienced the withdrawal of a mothering figure. It might evoke ways of acting that are increasingly bombastic and attention-seeking. The child becomes almost exaggerated in the ways they try to court attention.” "ButT Boy...On Fred>
"He did talk about his father,” McIntosh says, “how he told him to be a ‘king,’ to be a ‘killer.’ He didn’t tell me what his mother’s advice was. He didn’t say anything about her. Not a word.”"Later >"he received from his mother
“MY religious VALUE$".”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/03/mary-macleod-trump-donald-trump-mother-biography-mom-immigrant-scotland-215779
BET~He will KNOW something about this^
OT:
ReplyDelete"Defense attorneys argued at Bergdahl’s sentencing hearing at Fort Bragg in North Carolina that he was a young, hardworking soldier who did not understand the full consequences of his actions when he deserted.
Bergdahl, who has said he wanted to report problems in his unit, apologized in court this week for the suffering he caused his comrades and admitted he had made “a horrible mistake.”
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/03/bergdahl-no-prison.html
Yes I remember when this occurred. He said that troops within his unit had committed assault or murder on innocent civilians and it literally freaked him out. And that is when he deserted.
Delete"The Prisoner cannot Free himself"<In all of Us...
Deletehttps://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/3/drabik-spicer/
Delete@Harvard "“The classroom session followed the same playbook as his Press Secretary tenure: Dodge hard questions, make a few FAL$E statements, attack the media, claim that Trump is treated unfairly, etc.”<RIGHT
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/all-of-sean-spicers-harvard-talks-were-off-the-record-and-students-say-he-still-told-absurd-lies/
Who is the real Traitor?
“It has everything to do with HER identity as a traitor to the United States of America "
"each potential visitor, what members of the Kennedy School community could learn from that person’s visit against the extent to which that person’s conduct fulfills the VALUE$ of public service to which we aspire.". Any determination should start with the presumption that more speech is better than less. In retrospect, though, I think my assessment of that balance for Chelsea Manning was wrong."<RIGHT?"
“The answer we got back from him was, specifically, Sean Spicer has something to contribute to American policy, to discuss before students. And you can’t really bring that to the table,” Manning said of her conversation with the dean."“Rather than stand on principle and procedure, Harvard has undermined the pursuit of its core academic mission by acting out of fear of negative publicity,”
"By deciding that it is appropriate for Sean Spicer but not Chelsea Manning to retain a fellowship, you have failed to fulfill Harvard’s responsibility to be independent of government power and coercion. During his stint at the Trump White House, Mr. Spicer earned a reputation for lying. As a whistleblower, Ms. Manning earned a reputation for TRUTH-telling."“I’m not ashamed of being disinvited,” she said last weekend at a conference in Nantucket. “I view that just as much of an honored distinction as the fellowship itself.”"
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2017/09/26/how-the-decision-to-offer-and-then-revoke-chelsea-mannings-fellowship-blew-up-on-harvard
I wonder how Hailey ,Id. will welcome him back? Last I was over there,yrs ago there was yellow ribbons everywhere. I can't blame the guy. Atrocities committed against the population is wrong. He came in to the military with mental issues. His dad's a nut.
Deletehttp://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/bowe-bergdahl-sentenced/index.html
DeleteI saw on Steven Colbert the other day, Chris Matthews from Hardball. He was saying that he had not encountered much Russians in his life. He noted that Donald for some odd reason was up to his neck in Russians. Every Trump seemed to be steeped with Russians. Donald should just move to Russia. He even decorates in that gaudy gold like them.
ReplyDeletePoll: Majority Of Democrats Want Party To Move Left
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2017/11/poll-majority-democrats-want-party-move
Trump Tells Us What He Really Thinks: 'I'm The Only One That Matters'
ReplyDelete..."Your state department still has some unfilled positions," she said. "Are you worried that the State Department doesn't have enough Donald Trump nominees in there to push your vision through? Other state departments, including Reagan's, undermined his agenda."
"We don't need all the people that they want -- don't forget. I'm a business person," Trump bragged. "I tell my people when you don't need to fill slots, don't fill them. we have some people that I'm not happy with there."
"Assistant secretary of state, you're not getting rid of that position?" Ingraham said.
"Let me tell you, the one that matters, I'm the only one that matters. When it comes to it, that's what the policy is going to be. In addition to that, we don't need all the people -- it's called cost saving."
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/11/trump-tells-us-what-he-really-thinks-im
She's a lying bitch.
ReplyDeleteSarah Huckabee Sanders is the right mouthpiece for a truth-twisting president
http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-huckabee-sanders-20171031-story.html
Wall eyes literally lies out of the side of her mouth once she gets going. Sideshow Sanders.
DeleteI cannot imagine what kind of life she is going to have when her tenure has been completed w/the Trump klan! She is just like him and disliked equally!
DeleteI feel so sorry for her young kids and husband.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/358600-trump-lots-of-people-are-disappointed-in-justice-department-including
ReplyDelete"“They should be looking at Podesta and all of that dishonesty, they should be looking at a lot of things, and a lot of people are disappointed in the Justice Department, including ME,” "rump has tweeted several times about the Democratic deal since an excerpt of Brazile’s book was published by Politico on Thursday, calling it “illegal” and bringing back his nickname for Clinton, “Crooked Hillary.”"
"the actions taken by Bannon and Trump could amount to obstruction of justice and witness tampering, the writers said, explaining, “Obstruction is found where an individual interferes with an investigation with corrupt intent, such as to protect himself or a friend from prosecution.”'
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/steve-bannons-ongoing-efforts-to-influence-trump-violate-federal-law-legal-experts/
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/03/bannon-contacts-trump-illegal-215783
Who says he won’t be interviewed by Mueller? Or hasn’t already?
ReplyDelete“What kind of son have I created?” wondered Mary Trump in an interview from 1990
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/03/mary-macleod-trump-donald-trump-mother-biography-mom-immigrant-scotland-215779
https://video.gq.com/watch/the-closer-with-keith-olbermann-did-trump-spot-the-indictment-s-most-damning-phrase-2017-10-31
ReplyDelete'o-T-her'