The Latest: Trump wants Sessions to investigate op-ed writer

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times (all times local):

12:25 p.m.

President Donald Trump says Attorney General Jeff Sessions should investigate the identity of the author of an anonymous New York Times opinion piece.

Trump says in an interview Friday with reporters aboard Air Force One that he believes the opinion piece critical of his leadership is a “national security” issue.

Asked if he would take any action against the Times, Trump says “we’re going to see, I’m looking at that right now.” ... Adds Trump: “We’re going to take a look at what he had, what he gave, what he’s talking about also where he is right now.”

Trump says if the person had a high-level security clearance, “I don’t want him in those meetings.” ... Trump reiterated that it was a “disgrace” that the Times would publish the piece.

Read more: https://apnews.com/89ebc7b9f3fc4ae18042b0fbbd9fd53e?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter

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BREAKING: Trump says Justice Department should investigate identity of anonymous New York Times op-ed writer, cites national security concerns.

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Maybe not that newsworthy. Just more of the same? Forum hosts?

[orangecrush]

1. 25th him now.

[MontanaMama]

2. Wait...

I thought he said the op-ed wasn't real? That it was fake news by the failing NYT?

[madaboutharry]

3. Trump, the wannabe dictator

He wants to use the DOJ to go after his political enemies. Trump is a Fascist.

[LiberalBrooke]

13. Everyone who does not bow down and praise him

should he locked up. Spoken like a true dictator.

[PSPS]

20. Like this...

[DonViejo]

4. Trump says Justice Department should investigate who wrote anonymous New York Times op-ed, ...

Trump says Justice Department should investigate who wrote anonymous New York Times op-ed, citing national security, AP reports

By Washington Post Staff

September 7 at 12:37 PM

The op-ed, published online Wednesday, was written by a senior official in the Trump administration, according to the Times. It depicts a “two-track presidency” in which President Trump acts according to his own whims while many of his top aides, in the author’s words, work to thwart his “more misguided impulses until he is out of office.”

Trump said the investigation was needed for national security reasons. It is unclear what law he believes was broken.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/09/07/trump-says-justice-department-should-investigate-who-wrote-anonymous-new-york-times-op-ed-citing-national-security-ap-reports/

[C_U_L8R]

5. What law was broken?

[ProfessorGAC]

24. The Loyalty Oath Must Carry The Full Weight Of Law

Or something like that. I mean, consider the source!

[Bayard]

6. If he's not stopped

He's going to want all Dem leaders investigated and jailed for talking mean about him.

[efhmc]

10. Probably does but has not verbalized* it yet

*Trumpsters this means spoken.

[RockRaven]

7. Serious question for someone willing to play devil's advocate:

What law or statute would even be hypothetically, supposedly, allegedly at issue here? Even IF such a violation were to be investigated or found, what violation are we talking about?

The DOJ isn't in the business of investigation things just because the President or public are curious and want to know something. They are in the business of investigating (potential) violations of the law. What was in that op-ed that could be construed as violating the law, and what law?

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Trump had his personal Vietnam

This is a drama queen's equivalent to the Pentagon Papers

[LiberalBrooke]

15. The law of loyalty to Trump.

Oh, I forgot there is no such law and the president does not pass laws. You would have to have a basic understanding of the constitution to realize that.

[Sneederbunk]

8. Sessions should tell him it's Pence.

Not because there is any evidence, but to irritate Dotard and Pence.

[Liberalagogo]

30. Tell Shithole to Google "Lodestar"

Then watch the fireworks.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. I find Trump's tweet very reassuring

If he's trying to use the DOJ, it means he really doesn't have Secret Police yet

[C_U_L8R]

31. Yeah... and what about his private detectives??

The ones that have been combing the world all these years in search of Obama's birth certificate. Why doesn't Spanky McFatHitler enlist those brilliant shamuses (shamii?)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Sessions at least knows that the op-ed writer didn't violate any laws

so there's no basis for investigating or prosecuting them. He will tell Spanky he can't do it. That will give Spanky another excuse to fire him.

[Solly Mack]

14. The evil twinner Keebler Elf is going to investigate a "fake" letter written by a "fake" person?

From a "fake news" newspaper?

LMAO


On a serious note - Trump is a wannabe tyrant, so I can see him trying to imprison people over this.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. The only thing rump recognizes as national security issues is others' negative judgement of his ...

administration and cabinet, as well as him.

Doesn't even acknowledge a first amendment right.

My take on the national security issue? It's rump that's causing a national security issue, no one else.
Who knows by now all of the secrets, classified materials, etc. that he passed along to Putin in his one on one meeting (and the Russian ambassador too).

Traitor...

[UpInArms]

17. Another attack on the First Amendment

By Shitler

... sigh ...

[Doodley]

18. It is obviously an act of treason designed to undermine the United States of Russia.

[Ccarmona]

19. I'm Still Trying to Figure Out How the Op-Ed is A "National Security Threat"

But my brain isn’t twisted like DT’s so I guess it will remain a mystery to me.

[luvtheGWN]

21. That's his "go to" excuse

Remember that your northern neighbour has been deemed a "security threat"

[Le Grand Pronounceur]

22. What if it was Sessions himself who wrote it?

Trump's been shitting all over him lately, so.....

[ProfessorGAC]

25. That Would Be Perfect

Li'l Jeffy could say "OK", spend a week, and just say "Whoever did it really covered their tracks well."

Or he could do like Paul Newman in Absence of Malice. "I said i'd ask around". "What did you find out?'' "Nothing. Nobody wants to talk about it."

[Maxheader]

23. Sore neck from looking over your shoulder traitor?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. If it is fiction, it is not an NS threat. If it is an NS threat, then it isn't fiction. Is neither.

It's not fiction.
It's not treason.
It's not a National Security threat.

At this point, he can only hope that it keeps the tRumpLickers spell bound. It's not convincing any thinking person.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. And fifty million of us nod along in agreement at the idea of ending our constitution

[sinkingfeeling]

28. Can no one ask him what the national security issue might be?

The only one I see is having a mentally ill person claiming to run the country.

[FakeNoose]

29. I'm certain that Jeff Sessions already knows there's no "national security" issue here

Sessions should tell Cheeto that everyone thinks he (Cheeto) wrote the thing. Maybe that will be the end of it.

[Aristus]

32. I would have thought Sessions was the one who wrote it, except the text of the op-ed

did not include the phrases "lil ole", "my stars", or "bless his heart".

[Zambero]

33. Sessions should recuse himself

Hee-Hee. As a payback of sorts to his boss, Just to see what the reaction is. Perhaps appoint Comey as Special Counsel?