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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Mon May 22, 2017, 10:02 PM May 2017

John Dean: Trump has surpassed Nixon for direct and personal involvement in cover up.






VIDEO at: Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence

Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima May 22 at 6:23 PM

President Trump asked two of the nation’s top intelligence officials in March to help him push back against an FBI investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and the Russian government, according to current and former officials.

Trump made separate appeals to the director of national intelligence, Daniel Coats, and to Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, urging them to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of collusion during the 2016 election.

Coats and Rogers refused to comply with the requests, which they both deemed to be inappropriate, according to two current and two former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private communications with the president.

Trump sought the assistance of Coats and Rogers after FBI Director James B. Comey told the House Intelligence Committee on March 20 that the FBI was investigating “the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.”

Trump’s conversation with Rogers was documented contemporaneously in an internal memo written by a senior NSA official, according to the officials. .......


Trump's New Impeachable Offenses: Obstruction of Justice, Conspiracy, Abuse of Power
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John Dean: Trump has surpassed Nixon for direct and personal involvement in cover up. (Original Post) L. Coyote May 2017 OP
K&R Scurrilous May 2017 #1
K&R, nt. appal_jack May 2017 #2
With all due respect to John C. Reilly's ... Whiskeytide May 2017 #3
David Brooks (douche bag) said "we used to have a better class of criminal" Hassin Bin Sober May 2017 #6
Maybe that's the difference between a criminal and a crooked politician. L. Coyote May 2017 #12
Trump tried to get the head of NSA and DNI to intervene, Wow! KelleyKramer May 2017 #4
And looking back, we now have retrospective insight into a lot of efforts that were obstruction. L. Coyote May 2017 #14
Yes, this stretches far and wide KelleyKramer May 2017 #19
No pardon from Pence. No oasis May 2017 #5
If he does get the opportunity he'd (hopefully) have the same fate as Ford. BigmanPigman May 2017 #8
"Choirboy" Mike will likely say "pardoning would be the decent thing to do". oasis May 2017 #9
They will say it is time to unite the country and blame Obama in the same breath. L. Coyote May 2017 #15
Yup, more of the "nation's long nightmare" must come to an end, bs. oasis May 2017 #18
Pence is going to need his own pardon! B Stieg May 2017 #11
Great. Let's hope the law can add another Trumpkin for a trifecta. nt oasis May 2017 #17
Kick Rec....and hopefully de-Trumping of our country (de-Pencing too) NRaleighLiberal May 2017 #7
Trump is WAY Worse than Nixon mark fromelko May 2017 #10
Another first for Team Trump! PNW-Dem May 2017 #13
They sure are winning a lot lately ..... L. Coyote May 2017 #16
High KICK! Cha May 2017 #20

Whiskeytide

(4,459 posts)
3. With all due respect to John C. Reilly's ...
Tue May 23, 2017, 12:11 AM
May 2017

... Rohmann Dey, Nixon WAS 100% a total dick. But he was smart enough to at least lurk in the shadows as the crimes were being committed. Cheeto, not so much. He's a hands on justice obstructionist.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,273 posts)
6. David Brooks (douche bag) said "we used to have a better class of criminal"
Tue May 23, 2017, 12:31 AM
May 2017

DAVID BROOKS: To me, the story of today, you know, we used to have a better class of criminal. When a president obstructed justice, he didn't brag about it. He would try to hide it, cover it up a little. But Donald Trump not only went on national TV and said he was trying to quash this investigation, he's apparently told our adversaries, the Russians. And so I really don't know if he's obstructed justice, but he is certainly bragging about it as if he did.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
12. Maybe that's the difference between a criminal and a crooked politician.
Tue May 23, 2017, 12:53 AM
May 2017

A crooked politician is a full timer and proud of it.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
14. And looking back, we now have retrospective insight into a lot of efforts that were obstruction.
Tue May 23, 2017, 12:56 AM
May 2017

What may have seemed like narrative control can now be understood as part of the larger pattern of criminal obstruction.

KelleyKramer

(8,853 posts)
19. Yes, this stretches far and wide
Tue May 23, 2017, 01:12 AM
May 2017

Don't forget Priebus also tried to get Comey/FBI to back off

And the Ryan tape

These guys are all into it up to their eyeballs

A bunch of traitors!

oasis

(49,152 posts)
9. "Choirboy" Mike will likely say "pardoning would be the decent thing to do".
Tue May 23, 2017, 12:43 AM
May 2017

Then come up with all of this "second chance" nonsense. Remember, Mr. "High and mighty" Pious Pence rejected a greeting from Hillary Clinton at Trump's inaguration.

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
11. Pence is going to need his own pardon!
Tue May 23, 2017, 12:52 AM
May 2017

They can run, but they can't hide (okay, well Trump is different, trying to hide in plain sight!).


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