To me, it has been obvious for a long time that Resident Donald Trump, aka Putin’s Puppet, sold out to Russia in return for Russia installing him in the White House. I kept asking myself why it wasn’t being investigated. Unbeknownst to me, it was. Shortly after the Comey firing the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump, as they suspected that he had been working for Russia, against American interests.
In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.
The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.
The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.
Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude. But the president’s activities before and after Mr. Comey’s firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said… [emphasis added]
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Please click through to read this article in it’s entirety. It contains considerable detail.
When this came out, the Tangerine Traitor came unglued.
President Trump on Saturday morning called his firing of former FBI Director James Comey “a great day for America.”
The comment came in a tweetstorm voicing outrage over a recent New York Times report saying days after the May 2017 firing, the FBI opened an inquiry into whether Trump was “secretly working on behalf of Russia.”
“Wow, just learned in the Failing New York Times that the corrupt former leaders of the FBI, almost all fired or forced to leave the agency for some very bad reasons, opened up an investigation on me, for no reason & with no proof, after I fired Lyin’ James Comey, a total sleaze!” the president tweeted [sphincter delinked].
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In short, Trump and the the Republican Reich say this is fake news from what they call the "deep state". This could not be further from the truth.
Filling in for Lawrence O’Donnell, Ali Velshi analyzed some of the implications with David Corn, Glenn Kirschner and Frank Montoya.
I disagree with one point. Russia is not the chief threat to American democratic values. The Republican Reich is.
Now we know that when Mueller went to work, he already had ample evidence of treason dropped in his lap.
If this story had come out as fiction five years ago, most of us would have dismissed it as too fantastic to consider.
This is not Deep State. Trump is in Deep Doo Doo.
RESIST!!
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I am SO not surprised by this. As H.L. Mencken said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” Or their intelligence. But there are a lot of people out there who would, if they were betting, go broke underestimating the intelligence of the F.B.I.
Times up!!! dt !! We need look no further than the statements and behavior of the man to see how he lies, and acts. He’s never has been held accountable for anything! and blames others, and sides w/Russia.
Kudos to the NYT, FBI, NSA, and the counter-intelligence community for investigating, finding the truth, and getting it out to the people. It reads like a Tom Clancy novel(s), (which I’ve read most of). imho.
Because …
It’s time to …
Great wall pic! I just sent it around to all of my e-mail buddies, and such!
The Freeway Blogger does such good work.
He truly does – and it’s a service for ALL Americans!
No Name’s wall picture says it all!
Anything that Pres.* Grifter, and/or cronies, say to deflect, or defend from, the story is lie number 1000,012!
Doo Doo up to the top of his wiggie!
Great pics, SoINeedAName! They say it all. I saved them.
Unless the shutdown ends soon, the doo doo is going to hit the fan.
he walls of doo doo are definitely closing in on the orange ogre.Thank you TomCat.
800,000 federal workers are still struggling to keep their heads and that of their families above water in the longest government shutdown ever and finally got the media attention they deserved, but Drumpf has managed to flip the attention back to himself again by going ballistic in twitter on some old news that doesn’t add anything to our knowledge of how guilty he is in conspiring with the Russians. Anything the FBI found out then will be part of Mueller’s package. IF useful, that is. Meantime Drumpf has managed to grab the headlines again, away from the real victims.
Really doesn’t surprise me about wondering if tRump is a rUssian puppet? The way he is treating the people here in the country is not the way a real American president would be doing. I hope to goodness that they do investigate the living he*l out of the bas*ard.
This torture on America has gone on way too long.
We truly deserve some peace in our world.
Trump has a PhD in Bullshitology! Trump being Trump, will glory in the PhD and think himself very smart but he is too stupid to know in what subject he holds a PhD! I have said for some time that when Trump complains about terrorists coming into the country across the southern border by the thousands, the only terrorist to be concerned about is the one who is resident in the WH. Trump is a national security risk!
One thing, I remember Comey saying in an interview that he has faith in the FBI to do its job, no matter what. Seems he was correct!
Get your hip waders out . . . industrial strength!
Thanks, pooped hugs, and Amen to all.
Lock him up, build a wall around the enemy!! ?