{"id":33401,"date":"2018-08-14T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33401"},"modified":"2018-08-14T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:26:09","slug":"purge-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/14\/purge-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Purge Baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time Stalin may have leaned over to KGB Head Beria and said "There is disloyalty among the generals."  Beria may have replied, "What do we do?"  "Purge Baby!"  Almost a century later, another right-wing Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin (R-RU), may have leaned over to his subordinate and said, "There is disloyalty among the FBI."  Trump may have replied, "BAAAA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A?"  "Purge Baby!"  And that’s exactly what Trump did.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rachel Maddow pointed out last night that with the shocking firing of FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, Trump has forced out almost every single witness to James Comey’s account of Trump’s attempt to obstruct justice.<\/p>\n

"In Comey’s telling, the president tried to interfere with the FBI investigation of national security adviser Mike Flynn. The president denies did he any such thing, but Comey has back-up," she said.<\/p>\n

"He committed to it writing, and then he told all these people at the time so they could corroborate what he said at the time about what happened. And these are not just job titles. There are specific people who had these jobs at the time in counsel. Comey and the corroborating witnesses for Comey…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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