Uncle samuel macdonald yankee.
Fine citizen of the ussa.
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Lots of experience in both the FSB and the KGB before that.
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I think this is starting to look pretty bleak.
Trump will replace him with somebody that will not pursue this investigation.
The congressional investigation will never turn up anything because the GOP will never go after Trump on this.
Justice dept will never assign independent council to investigate this.
So likely Trump will never be investigated over collusion with Russians during election. Unless some journalists turn up condemning information.
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On the other hand, he might have done more damage to himself than the Russia investigation would have. Arcane documents that hint at legal wrongdoing arenāt as sexy or dramatic as Trump suddenly firing the man who is investigating him. His staff arenāt breathing a sigh of relief that Comey is goneātheyāre struggling to contain a week-long PR disaster that distracts from and undermines their legislative agenda.
Itās hard for me to see this as a win for them.
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Iād say that is highly likely, and the FBI will probably start leaking like a sieve.
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Comey had been refusing to swear absolute loyalty to Trump, and was trying to build leverage against him [1]. His request for more resources on the Russia investigation is probably what most immediately motivated the sacking.
It was a direct move to defuse the threat from Comey, not a distraction from something else.
[1] For the good of Comey, not for the good of the nation. Heās a wildly bent GOP partisan, he just isnāt a Trump-faction partisan. He got Trump elected by accident; heās been trying to swing control back to the pre-Trump GOP establishment, with himself as kingmaker.
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No, I donāt see it as a win. But I see it as making it less likely we can get rid of Trump soon, and take down as much of the secession list as possible along with him.
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Itās literally impossible to indict a sitting President for a crime, isnāt it? You must be impeachedā¦
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David Frum argues against a Special Prosecutor.
yeah, yeah. itās David Frum. But he makes an interesting argument,
ā¦ But the dangersāand the remediesāin the present situation are much more likely to be political than legal. Itās more important that the investigation be speedy and its full conclusions shared with the public than that it lead to indictments, prosecutions, and penalties.
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Itās Louise Mensch.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/142650/stop-promoting-liberal-conspiracy-theories-twitter
Louise Mensch doesnāt know anything about the Russia investigation. No one sane would leak any valuable information to a person who isnāt a journalist and whose only moment of public self-awareness occurred in 2012, when she appeared on the BBCās Question Time and announced: āI did serious drugs and it messed with my head.ā
Titilating if true. But what if it isnāt?
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Interesting news
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LOL, ātapesā
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Probably get something like this out of it:
Edit: Wish this had the full show. I recall listening to it on radio during the height of Watergate and nearly pissing myself.
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Hm, I donāt suppose Derek and Clive ever did any political satireā¦ Now that would be piss-funny.
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