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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThinks he got 'total vindication'
By Amber Phillips
June 9 at 8:17 AM
... Comey didn't agree to nearly three hours public of hearings to talk about whether the president was/is under investigation by the FBI, as it relates to Russia meddling in the U.S. election. He was testifying that the president tried to interfere in that investigation .. as it relates to .. Michael Flynn ... Now we have a special counsel, who has wide latitude .. to investigate .. Trump and Russia, including any potential obstruction of justice ... Comey and other intelligence chiefs have testified .. that it's possible .. Russia's campaign of fake news and hacking of Democratic emails changed the way some people decided to .. vote ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/09/trump-thinks-he-got-total-vindication-from-comey-except-he-didnt/?utm_term=.32de37be52d8
SHRED
(28,136 posts)That's how he's acting.
spooky3
(34,444 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)You can't have it both ways.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)then you can't be vindicated.
procon
(15,805 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,909 posts)added to the previous on-going investigations that included -
1.) Russian state-sponsored spear-phishing allowing for -
2.) Russian state-sponsored hacking into U.S. political party servers in order to
3.) Gain info from U.S. voter registration databases so that they could
4.) Target U.S. citizens with carefully crafted fake news distributed through social media so that one
6.) Presidential candidate is buried in an avalanche of false stories, allowing her opponent to prevail along with
5.) Russian-initiated attempts to secure U.S. spy assets among associates of the favored candidate in order to -
6.) Attempt to bring about a lifting of crippling sanctions, which would allow for
7.) Continued infiltration into Ukraine, a non-aligned country bordering NATO countries, and future expansions
And here you have that "favored candidate, now President" attempting to bury the whole thing.