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https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/905228053042880512/photo/1(THREAD) BREAKING: Trumpvia Trey Gowdyis AGAIN attempting to use the House Intel Committee to END the Russia probe. Please read and share.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)applegrove
(123,308 posts)else tweeting about GOWDY.
Laffy Kat
(16,529 posts)onecaliberal
(36,054 posts)1/ In April, America learned that Trump secretly conspired with House Intel Committee Chair Devin Nunes to prematurely end the Russia probe.
2/ That sordid episodeand illegal behavioris likely now part of Special Counsel Mueller's Obstruction investigation against the president.
3/ The aim of the Trump-Nunes conspiracy was to delegitimize the FBI probe by proving the evidence that birthed it was false and/or illegal.
4/ The result of the conspiracybesides fodder for Mueller's Obstruction probewas Nunes "recusing" himself from the Intel Committee's work.
5/ While Nunes never REALLY recused himselfhe continued (crucially) overseeing the Committee's subpoenasTrey Gowdy assumed a leading role.
6/ Gowdy now seeksin EVERY sense like Nunesto delegitimize the FBI probe by proving the evidence that birthed it was false and/or illegal.
9/ The Committee hasn't interviewed more than a handful of the KEY persons of interest in the Trump-Russia affairMANY months into its work.
10/ What KEY persons of interest the Committee HAS interviewed, it's deliberately interviewedby prior formal agreementin closed sessions.
11/ The result is the public never hears the testimony ANDas we saw this weekthe witnesses can block Mueller from seeing their testimony.
12/ Just today, CNN reported Manafort has used his agreement with the Committee to keep his testimony from the FBI.
18/ I said it's common for investigations to overlapintel-sharing agreements EASILY ensure government bodies can access one another's work.
27/ Democrats charged Gowdy with acting as a "second attorney" for Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner during his recent closed-door testimony.
29/ On July 11th, Gowdy told Trump's White House in the *clearest possible terms* it needed to come clean on Russia.
30/ But within 30 days of that extraordinary admonishment of the White House over its response to the Russia probe, Gowdy did an about-face.
31/ So a KEY question right now is to discover what happened with, or to, Trey Gowdy between July 12th and sometime in early to mid-August.
32/ The most significant event in the House Intel investigation during that periodBY FARwas its interrogation of Jared Kushner on July 25
33/ Trumpalmost certainly illegallycalled Sen. Chuck Grassley prior to one of his sons testifying before Congress.
34/ So it's not conspiracy theoryjust sound investigationto ask if Trump spoke to Gowdy before ANOTHER of his sons testified to Congress.
35/ Specifically, we'd want to know if there is ANY evidence Trump spoke to Gowdy about the Russia investigation between July 11th and 25th.
38/ On July 25 Gowdy said on FNC, "I think the president's frustration is *not* the recusal..." before changing his statement to "I hope..."
40/ Later in the interview, Gowdy statedas fact, not suppositionthat Trump had "no confidence" in Sessions, though Trump hadn't said that.
applegrove
(123,308 posts)onecaliberal
(36,054 posts)oasis
(51,721 posts)Solly Mack
(92,911 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)And that stupid fucking haircut! He looks like a fucking idiot. Sounds like one, too.
Sheesh!
Who wants to look like this?
Or like this?
Or like this?
Or like this?
I could do more, but I don't want an alert for abuse of these forums.
oasis
(51,721 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)superpatriotman
(6,565 posts)Or are his constituents as batshit crazy as he?