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05-16-2017 , 05:53 PM
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Mr. Comey created similar memos — including some that are classified — about every phone call and meeting he had with the president, the two people said.
drip, drip, drip...
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05-16-2017 , 05:54 PM
This is gonna make such a good movie
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05-16-2017 , 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Wooders0n
This is gonna make such a good movie
Here's the problem with that.

Look at how Trump is. Look at how he blabs about everything.

If there was real collusion between him and Russia, real meat to the scandal here, his dumb ass would've already admitted it because he would want to brag about how he gets to do cool spy **** like pay FSB agents to hack the DNC.

I strongly suspect the thing that's getting covered up here is like, banking law violations or something where Trump is helping Russian private interests launder money in exchange for low interest loans and not filing all the required documents or something, not direct Putin->Trump collaboration.
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05-16-2017 , 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
lol why would you fire him if you had been trying to get him to do something and he kept saying no, you have to know that he's going to blab about that **** to the press.
maybe, just maybe, he's a complete ****ing moran!?


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Mr. Trump’s appetite for chaos, coupled with his disregard for the self-protective conventions of the presidency, have left his staff confused and squabbling. And his own mood, according to two advisers who spoke on the condition of anonymity, has become sour and dark, turning against most of his aides — even his son-in-law, Jared Kushner — and describing them in a fury as “incompetent,” according to one of those advisers.

Even before the latest bombshell dropped, reports swirled in the White House that the president was about to embark on a major shake-up, probably starting with the dismissal or reassignment of Sean Spicer, the press secretary.

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There is a growing sense that Mr. Trump seems unwilling or unable to do the things necessary to keep himself out of trouble, and that the presidency has done little to tame a shoot-from-the-hip-into-his-own-foot style that characterized his campaign.

There is a fear among some of Mr. Trump’s senior advisers about leaving him alone in meetings with foreign leaders out of concern he might speak out of turn. General McMaster, in particular, has tried to insert caveats or gentle corrections into conversations when he believes the president is straying off topic or onto boggy diplomatic ground.

This has, at times, chafed the president, according to two officials with knowledge of the situation. Mr. Trump, who still openly laments having to dismiss his first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, has groused that General McMaster talks too much in meetings, and the president has referred to him as “a pain,” according to one of the officials.

In private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling — and honest — defense of the president: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of printed briefing materials, simply did not possess the interest or knowledge of the granular details of intelligence gathering to leak specific sources and methods of intelligence gathering that would do harm to United States allies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/u...use-staff.html
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05-16-2017 , 06:23 PM
lol he's ****ed
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05-16-2017 , 06:28 PM
"Guys we need notes, Comey has notes, many people have notes, where are our counter notes? Remember to use different color pens so it looks like we've been keeping them all along instead of whipping them up right before they are due."
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05-16-2017 , 06:34 PM
yes my fav part of that are the exasperated aides flat out saying he's stupid and impatient
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05-16-2017 , 06:35 PM
The quote in the NYT completely nails Trump's style of speech. Hope these notes are good. He actually does seem ****ed.

COMEY
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05-16-2017 , 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Wooders0n
This is gonna make such a good movie
Who plays the parts tho?

I got Matt Damon winning an Oscar as Trump. He prepares for his role by smoking crack for 10 months straight

MATTY MAC as Pence

Brad Pitt as Putin
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05-16-2017 , 06:42 PM
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Alone in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump began the discussion by condemning leaks to the news media, saying that Mr. Comey should consider putting reporters in prison for publishing classified information, according to one of Mr. Comey’s associates.
Ya ok
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05-16-2017 , 06:45 PM
mr comey, from his congressional testimony, his ashcroft affair, and the fact that before becoming fbi director he was hired by 'radical transparency' antichrist ray dalio, all point to him being a very honest and forthright person. almost aspergian. the kind of guy we need right now in a public showdown of he said she said. not a 'crooked hilary' that pissbaby can ad hominem attack with ease.
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05-16-2017 , 06:51 PM
This is your periodic reminder that absolutely nothing that has happened so far is surprising in any measure, no matter how galling and distressing.

I would characterize everything that has happened so far as inevitable, and obviously so - as can be demonstrated by the redundant predictions of virtually all of this in innumerable posts and articles and tweets and hot takes.

This is, therefore, also your reminder that 62,979,879 living, breathing humans voted for specifically this, preferring it to the status quo, because the antics of an irrational-bigoted-white-male-imbecilic-and-abusive-daddy figure are more familiar and comfortable to them than the boring operation of an overlarge, inefficient, but immeasurably less nefarious and dangerous government.
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05-16-2017 , 06:53 PM
Gjge harming the NYT's financial resources Hoya
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05-16-2017 , 06:54 PM
Proud to have done it, will resubscribe whenever they find their pathetic spines.
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05-16-2017 , 07:15 PM
Just got a little depressed that BEST case scenario is President Pence

Him being impeached now probably hurts 2018 causes
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05-16-2017 , 07:24 PM
If that Seth rich guy really was leaking info to WikiLeaks then I'm glad he got clipped
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05-16-2017 , 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Wooders0n
Just got a little depressed that BEST case scenario is President Pence

Him being impeached now probably hurts 2018 causes
This is a possibility. There's also the possibility that it pisses off enough Trumpkinds to severely depress GOP turnout.
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05-16-2017 , 07:26 PM
If he does get impeached I have to think the Senate will vote 100-0 to give him the boot.

How many House Republicans have to flip to move it forward and can they force a vote with 51% even if Paul Ryan doesn't want to bring impeachment proceedings?
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05-16-2017 , 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by SirOsis
"Guys we need notes, Comey has notes, many people have notes, where are our counter notes? Remember to use different color pens so it looks like we've been keeping them all along instead of whipping them up right before they are due."
I totally did this in high school when we were supposed to be keeping a log of experiments or something for science class. Thought I was pretty clever at the time.
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05-16-2017 , 07:36 PM
Are you guys joking

Nothing will come of this
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05-16-2017 , 07:42 PM
A lot of Dem reps have been on t.v. hinting that they feel pretty strongly that republicans are close to turning on him

Tonight really does have a different feel than any other day so far
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05-16-2017 , 07:45 PM
jason chaffetz (!!) said he'd like to see the memo first, but volunteered that it sounds really bad for Trump.

It does feel like this is different based on general Republican reaction, but ~nothing happening is obviously the most likely outcome.
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05-16-2017 , 07:58 PM
....It's arrested development
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05-16-2017 , 08:02 PM
we're getting real close to ITSHAPPENING.JPG




and it is awesome
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05-16-2017 , 08:03 PM
RIP Trump
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