Trump ally Graham will subpoena McCabe and Rosenstein over 'coup'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Guardian

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Martin Pengelly in New York
@MartinPengelly

Sun 17 Feb 2019 08.54 EST

Trump ally Lindsey Graham has promised a Senate investigation into claims senior justice department officials discussed invoking the 25th amendment and removing the president from power.

“There’s an allegation by the acting FBI director at the time that the deputy attorney general was basically trying to do an administrative coup,” the South Carolina senator, the chair of the Senate judiciary committee, told CBS Face the Nation on Sunday.

“[To] take the president down to the 25th amendment process. The deputy attorney general denies it. I promise your viewers the following, that we will have a hearing about who’s telling the truth.”

The acting FBI director referred to is Andrew McCabe. He told CBS about the discussions, which reportedly followed Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey in May 2017, in an interview this week to promote his new book. Trump fired McCabe in March 2018, just short of his intended retirement.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/17/trump-ally-graham-will-subpoena-mccabe-and-rosenstein-over-coup

[Iliyah]

1. Go for it . . . . .

more Russia information will come out not in t-rump's favor.

[Chipper Chat]

2. Gray Ham may get more than he bargained for.

Rev up those cameras Fox

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Keep Mango Mussolini's delusions & incompetency more in public view, Graham. Ur a jeanyus! . . . nt

[Mr. Ected]

3. Trump's television audience envisions a coup

All the rest of us see it for what it is: an ongoing criminal investigation in which an abundance of reported and known fact points directly at the TV host being a co-conspirator to dozens upon dozens of crimes.

Graham is simply applying misdirection for the hapless audience. To everyone else, he's a compromised has-been who will never be able to look fellow Senators in the eyes again.

[NoMoreRepugs]

4. McCabe n Rosenstein are bright guys. They will do well

vs. the nitwit repug Senators who will conduct the witchhunt. Truth is an easy story to tell.

[cstanleytech]

5. Oh please, open this can of worms by all means Lindsey but do not be surprised if it

bites you on your ass.

[NotAPuppet]

6. Maybe the House

should subpoena Graham, Nunes, and the rest of Trump’s criminal gang in response.

[Botany]

7. "They" can't argue the facts of the case so they have to argue about the people making the case.

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Crook, OK the cameras have me robbing the bank, I was caught w/the money,
and the dye pack exploded in my trunk but the cop who arrested me used to be
my neighbor as a kid and he used to cut through our back yard on the way to
school.

[Autumn]

8. Graham seems to be in a bit of a panic. Is the duct tape coming off?

[William Seger]

9. Ds need to bring in psychiatrists to testify about Trump's mental illness

[C_U_L8R]

10. Then Lindsay has a problem with the Constitution

Proceed.

[Eyeball_Kid]

11. There WAS a coup, and it's still in progress...

Trumpy took over the Executive Branch and his Russian partners bribed the GOP leadership into silence/blackmail, while Putin is the real Commander-in-Chief. Trumpy is just a useful idiot.

[NCjack]

12. Maybe McCabe and Rosenstein will reveal the kompromat the Russians have on Sen. Graham. nt

[2naSalit]

13. Oh boy, that's gonna bite him in the ass.

[Scarsdale]

16. Could not happen to

a more deserving little ass-kisser. There was a time when Graham had the same opinion of tRump as we did. Then one golf game later, he completely turned around. I wonder what the Russians have on him? I hope we all find out SOON. He is terrified it will be exposed.

[2naSalit]

17. He sure is scared/owned.

He's afraid of prison or polonium tea.

I think if he demands testimony from those two, they will expose everything. I think that everyone called to testify in either the House or Senate will start putting it out there since Barr is likely to try and conceal anything damning and is probably writing up pardons as we speak.

[EleanorR]

15. More authoritarian propaganda

Can't seize each extra bit of power, plus keep your fan boys and girls defending you, if there aren't enemies out to get you.

[bluestarone]

18. Would LOVE to get some RETHUGS subpoenaed and few of the questions would be

Have you received any RUSSIAN money? How much? WHEN?

[Scruffy1]

19. He's lost what little mind he had.

He was never anything but a mental midget in the first place, but managed to get lots of national press by attaching himself like a leach to someone more prominent. With McGrumpy gone he had to find a new host to suck on. The one with the highest profile. The press that they claim to hate is their main ally. No matter how silly they act they get airtime and page one. In my mind, all these "conservative" main message is the same one as Bilbo's was:racism moved into the twenty first century disguised by cross, flag, and Bible. They just dropped the hood and the robe and used pro life as a Mother Hubbard.

[BlueIdaho]

20. The tragic end of a Senators career...

Little Lindsay’s complete sellout to Trumpsky will erase any doubt that he places Fatso above the rule of law. He’s a fascist imperial sycophant.

[duforsure]

21. Is this more of the same,

Retaliation because he wrote his book and was speaking out against him? Criminalize the opposition, just like putin did in russia also.

[Firestorm49]

22. "An administrative coup" Lindsey Graham

WTF. How about the lurch toward total and complete Autocracy that the Idiot In Chief is promulgating along with the rest of his loyal band of traitorous power hungry minions? A coup? Really? A move to save our country from a foreign agent in the Oval Office? That’s a coup?
Fuck you Graham, and when the dust hopefully settles around this sad chapter in American history, I can only hope that you get dragged out with the manure that’s left.

As much as I choose not to have the NSA climbing up my ass, perhaps a coup is what’s needed to save this country from Moscow in the White House.

[SunSeeker]

23. This could backfire spectacularly. Go for it, Lindsey!

[bluestarone]

24. I dare them!!!!

If they are THAT DUMB! THIS will not be good for them!!

[Marcuse]

25. Who stopped the coup, Lindsay? You? Follow the rubles.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Please proceed, Senator.

[RockRaven]

27. After McCabe's 60 Minutes interview, Senator Southern-Vapors would have to be a special kind of dumb

to want to give Dem Senators a chance to ask this guy questions under oath on national TV...

[Mr. Frost]

28. Cover all 100% basis, leave no stone unturned.

Make sure there is a full proof contingency plan in place in case the worst happens.

[duforsure]

29. Graham has become

For the Senate the new Nunes. Both will be facing a judge before this is all over, and be looking at time behind bars.