{"id":27541,"date":"2017-05-12T14:18:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27541"},"modified":"2017-05-12T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T21:18:30","slug":"trump-brags-about-obstruction-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/12\/trump-brags-about-obstruction-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Brags About Obstruction of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Until yesterday, Putin&#8217;s Pet and his Republican Reich kept claiming that DOJ had fired FBI Director Comey because of the way he treated Hillary.&#160; Nobody believed them, but universal incredulity has never been an obstacle to their lies before.&#160; Yesterday both Trump and his staff changed gears, that Trump had decided to fire Comey, because the Russia investigation,according to them, is based on fake news.&#160; The tone was that of bragging.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0512TrumpPet\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0512TrumpPet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0512TrumpPet.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has said he was thinking of \u201cthis Russia thing\u201d when he decided James Comey\u2019s fate \u2013 contradicting the White House rationale that he fired the FBI director for mishandling the Clinton email investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Comey had been leading an investigation into possible collusion between Trump advisers and Russian officials when he was dismissed by the president. Defending that decision in an interview on NBC News on Thursday, Trump said: \u201cAnd, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said: \u2018You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it\u2019s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should\u2019ve won.\u2019\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026In the NBC interview Trump also flatly contradicted his own vice-president and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/may\/10\/theres-nothing-there-white-house-staff-deny-comey-sacking-is-linked-to-russia\" target=\"_blank\">spokesman<\/a> by saying he decided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/may\/09\/james-comey-fbi-fired-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">to fire James Comey<\/a> before receiving a recommendation from the deputy attorney general&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/donald-trump-makes-stunning-admission-about-his-decision-fire-james-comey\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/news\/a40607\/donald-trump-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esquire<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> covered this story in detail and tied it in will the behavior of Jefferson &quot;KKK Beauregard&quot; Sessions.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_amanafort_170511\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">So, as I understand it, Trump and Comey had dinner, during which Trump repeatedly asked Comey to swear loyalty, not to America, but to him, a practice made famous by Adolf Hitler.&#160; Comey refused and offered to swear honesty and integrity.&#160; Were Trump and his minions not in danger of having their treason exposed by Comey&#8217;s investigation, a promise of honesty and integrity would have been sufficient.&#160; Trump needed loyalty, because he wanted Comey to cooperate in the cover-up.&#160; Shortly thereafter, Trump pulled the plug on the FBI investigation by firing Comey.&#160; So who is running it now?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">KKK Beauregard Sessions had recused himself from all matters Russia, but evidently, he is now running the investigation in secret, sol he can squelch it.&#160; And now that there&#8217;s little anyone can do, Trump is openly bragging about it.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until yesterday, Putin&#8217;s Pet and his Republican Reich kept claiming that DOJ had fired FBI Director Comey because of the way he treated Hillary.&#160; Nobody believed them, but universal incredulity has never been an obstacle to their lies before.&#160; Yesterday both Trump and his staff changed gears, that Trump had decided to fire Comey, because <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/12\/trump-brags-about-obstruction-of-justice\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}