President Trump over the summer repeatedly urged senior Senate Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to end the panel’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, according to a half dozen lawmakers and aides. Mr. Trump’s requests were a highly unusual intervention from a president into a legislative inquiry involving his family and close aides.
Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, the intelligence committee chairman, said in an interview this week that Mr. Trump told him that he was eager to see an investigation that has overshadowed much of the first year of his presidency come to an end.
“It was something along the lines of, ‘I hope you can conclude this as quickly as possible,’” Mr. Burr said. He said he replied to Mr. Trump that “when we have exhausted everybody we need to talk to, we will finish.”
In addition, according to lawmakers and aides, Mr. Trump told Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, and Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri and a member of the intelligence committee, to end the investigation swiftly.
Well my friends that smells an awful lot like obstructionism to me.
And don't forget that Trump fired James Comey for refusing to end the FBI investigation, and that Devin Nunes has been working to sabotage the House investigation, as well.
It seems like every single day there is more evidence to support impeachment.
Trump is toast:)
ReplyDeleteI simply don't understand why they have not tossed Orange Foolious big ass out of office yet. How fucking guilty does he have to be? FUCK!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Tax Bill. The will pass it today and then...watch this space!
DeleteAre they going to rename it treasonous trump's tax bill?
DeleteThey will have a vote only if they are sure they won't have to drag pence out of hiding,you know the guy that thought Flynn is such a great person.
They had better include restitution of our tax money that trump paid his companies in the articles of impeachment.
ReplyDeleteRefund our tax dollars with interest!!
Is melanoma packing her bags? Going back to the USSR?
Unfortunately we will not be able to reverse ever order, rescind every decision or remove every Deplorable asshole. Especially those fucking judges.
DeleteNet Neutrality will still be abolished. The National Monuments will still be reduced and handed over into private hands to be raped for profit.
That Tax Deform will have gone through.
Even if we get rid of him now, he will still have damaged this country almost beyond repair.
These admissions also corroborate Comey’s testimony about Trump in the private meetings. There are a string of Trump communications and his tweets dismissing revelations of the inquiries as “fake news” that are evidence of obstruction of justice. Firing people who would not shut up or look the other way or bury information are nails in Trump’s coffin.
ReplyDeleteThey had better add restitution of our tax money that trump stole to stay at his properties as well as over charged the secret service in the articles of impeachment, with interest!
ReplyDeleteShortest presidency ever in the history of the USA.
ReplyDeleteNow we need to know what Pence knows and did.
He knows it all. Don't be fooled by one republican. ALL of them enabled this massive crime against America and they continue today by attempting to push this scam bill of payment back to their big donors that financed this crime and cuts to ALL working americans. They only want this past because the big cheats want to be paid back for this outrageous crime and they want poor americans to financially suffer die. It is the heartless soulless citizen united new world order. They are a group of deranged empty suits with nothing else left to do.
DeleteNope.
DeleteThat would be William Henry Harrison at 31 days.
I only wish Trump has beaten that record.
@ mlaiuppa12:15 PM, Damn u beat me to saying that.
Delete@11:01 That is ~IT~in a 'nut$-HELL!
DeleteTrump Committed A Felony When He Pressured Senate Republicans To End The Russia Investigation
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/01/trump-committed-felony-pressured-senate-republicans-russia-investigation.html
Mike Flynn’s Guilty Plea To Lying To The FBI Is Why Trump Has Lost His Mind
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/01/mike-flynns-guilty-plea-lying-fbi-trump-lost-mind.html
A Cornered And Desperate Trump Blames Obama For Mike Flynn’s Crimes
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/01/trump-blames-obama-mike-flynns-crimes-white-house-statement.html
Lawrence O’Donnell Explains Why Mike Flynn’s Guilty Plea Is The Tip Of The Russia Iceberg
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/01/lawrence-odonnell-explains-mike-flynns-guilty-plea-tip-russia-iceberg.html
Senate Republicans Are Trying To Hide Mike Pence Because They Are Worried That He’ll Be Asked About Mike Flynn
ReplyDeleteThe reason why Senate Republicans are trying to get more than the 50 votes needed for their tax cut for the rich is that they want to keep Mike Pence from having to come to the Senate because they are afraid reporters will him about Mike Flynn.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/01/senate-republicans-hide-mike-pence-worried-asked-mike-flynn.html
The Nature of Flynn’s Plea Deal Suggests He Has Very Good Information For Mueller
ReplyDelete'...94/ Every attorney with experience in criminal law now presumes—and factors into their analyses—that Mueller has sufficient information to indict the POTUS. He wouldn't have given Flynn this sort of deal otherwise. All of us should be acting carefully, with that thought in mind.'
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/936602442996813824
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/01/nature-flynns-plea-deal-suggests-flynn-good-information-bargaining-tool.html
(THREAD) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Mike Flynn will plead guilty to Making False Statements at 10:30 AM EST today (Friday). This is the biggest development in the Russia probe so far. This thread explains what it all means, and will be updated throughout the day. Please read and share.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/936602442996813824
Robert Mueller now has three of Trump’s top campaign officials in his grasp
ReplyDeleteWith former US national security advisor Mike Flynn’s guilty plea for lying to the FBI, special prosecutor Robert Mueller now has serious leverage on three of president Donald Trump’s top 2016 campaign officials in his probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election.
https://qz.com/1144239/michael-flynn-plea-deal-now-three-top-trump-campaign-officials-are-in-robert-muellers-grasp/
PS/ BREAKING NEWS: As predicted early on in this thread, it has now been revealed that Jared Kushner directly ordered Michael Flynn to engage in negotiations with the Russians during the last weeks of the Obama presidency (specifically, in December 2016).
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/936664246594793472
If true, I doubt Kushner took the intiative on his own. Nope. He had orders. And we all know who those orders came from.
DeleteObama gave the orders!Hillary helped! it's all the democrats doing! ect.
DeleteKushner Is Said to Have Ordered Flynn to Contact Russia
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-01/kushner-is-said-to-have-ordered-flynn-to-contact-russia
I wonder if passing the tax bill is a law that gets these repubs who are rich already big tax breaks so they don't have to run ever again.
ReplyDeleteI doubt it. It’s a pay off to their donors so they can run again.
DeleteThis @elilake piece is, well, huge.
ReplyDeleteKushner is said to have ordered Flynn to contact Russia, reports @EliLake
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-01/kushner-is-said-to-have-ordered-flynn-to-contact-russia
… via @bv
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/936662872314335233
What liberals don't realize is while they celebrating over Flynn and a case that will end up going no where, Conservatives are passing their Tax Cuts. Should of stayed focused it is to late now...
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/brandonbw16/status/936696678358413312
What in the hell difference would it make,the rethugs won't budge and the democrats don't have the votes to block it,
DeleteTrump White House Furiously Tries To Distance Itself From Michael Flynn
ReplyDeleteThey are trying to shift the blame to Obama. Seriously.
...Two days after the November election, President Barack Obama warned Trump not to hire Flynn. Obama had fired him from his job as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Trump appointed Flynn to the high-ranking job anyway.
So Cobb is right that Flynn served in the Obama administration. But even when Obama tried to help his successor out by urging him to cut ties with Flynn, Trump refused to listen.
Then shortly after Trump took office, on Jan. 26, acting Attorney General Sally Yates became concerned that Vice President Mike Pence was publicly denying that Flynn had discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia with that country’s ambassador before Trump was inaugurated.
Yates told the White House official that Flynn was lying to them; federal officials had evidence that he had, indeed, discussed sanctions. She warned them that he could be subject to blackmail from the Russians and therefore a national security risk.
Nevertheless, the White House kept him on board as national security adviser. Trump fired him only after the news of Yates’ warning became public. Trump later fired Yates for refusing to defend his travel ban.
Despite knowing about Flynn’s lying, Trump continued to defend him. Former FBI Director James Comey said when he met with Trump on Feb. 14, the president asked him to ease up on Flynn.
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go,” Comey recalled Trump saying.
Trump later fired Comey and has hinted that it was because he was upset the FBI director wouldn’t stop the Russia investigation.
Trump has held out hope that Flynn will be able to come back to him, and even told aides that he thinks firing him was a mistake.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-michael-flynn_us_5a216fbde4b03c44072d2023?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
James Comey Basks In The Glow Of Michael Flynn’s Downfall
ReplyDeleteThe former FBI director tweeted a Bible verse just after Flynn pleaded guilty.
Former FBI Director James Comey is a shade king.
In response to former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s guilty plea Friday on a charge of lying to the FBI, Comey tweeted and Instagrammed a verse from the Bible about the virtues of justice.
“But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream,” the message says.
His Instagram post features a lovely photograph of the Great Falls of the Potomac:
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...Comey doesn’t tweet often, but he certainly does so with purpose.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-comey-michael-flynn_us_5a219197e4b0a02abe90ee9d?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
The Latest: Comey tweets Bible verse on justice
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article187503133.html
White House Cancels Trump Photo Op After Flynn News
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-cancels-pool-spray-flynn
Robert Mueller just penetrated the White House gates with Michael Flynn’s guilty plea
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/01/robert-mueller-just-penetrated-the-white-house-gates-with-michael-flynns-guilty-plea
12 House Republicans object to Alaska refuge oil drilling proposal
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/362757-12-house-republicans-object-to-alaska-refuge-oil-drilling-proposal
Documents Reveal New Details on What Trump Team Knew About Flynn’s Calls With Russia’s Ambassador
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/flynn-russia-sanctions.html
Trump White House caught off guard by Flynn plea
No one in the White House was prepared.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/01/trump-white-house-michael-flynn-response-274518
Not sure about the Senate or the House, but it looks ilke Mueller is heading toward the finish line.
ReplyDeleteFirst Flynn, then Kushner. How many does he have left to go?
(Sessions and Pence would be nice.)
Maybe Rex Tillerson doesn’t have anything to fear after all. He may outlast everyone. He might manage to get rid of Paul Ryan if he’s implicated but I’m afraid there’s probably nothing on Orrin Hatch.
It will be the country’s undoing if Orrin Hatch becomes president. After all of this fascist shit, a year of misery and finally getting rid of the to be left with Orrin Hatch as president? And Republicans still in charge of both houses?
The 'Mi$$ion' plan from day 1
DeleteRICO charges...
Most likely With Joe Lieberman as VP choice
or longer $hot>New'T' gingRICH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
Je$u$ BULL$~Hitters. Wining
trump believes it will end this month. why is he still in office? talk about magical thinking.
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