The magic show continues.........
Well he has to take what he can get at this point. Not a lot of firms will agree to represent a client who has a history of not paying and incriminates himself on a daily basis.Originally Posted by r3volution 3.0
“I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul
Something that's occurred to me -
If The FBI wasn't investigating Trump... why did Comey come to believe that he needed to trigger an independent investigation by leaking his memos?
It happened after the Trump tweet about having tapes. He knew a special counsel would subpoena for the tapes.
COMEY: Yeah, and — and — and, really, just a gut feel, laying on top of all of that, that this — it’s going to be important, to protect this organization, that I make records of this.
COLLINS: And finally, did you show copies of your memos to anyone outside of the Department of Justice?
COMEY: Yes.
COLLINS: And to whom did you show copies?
COMEY: I asked — the president tweeted on Friday, after I got fired, that I better hope there’s not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night, because it didn’t dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation. There might be a tape.
And my judgment was, I needed to get that out into the public square. And so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn’t do it myself, for a variety of reasons. But I asked him to, because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. And so I asked a close friend of mine to do it.
COLLINS: And was that Mr. Wittes?
COMEY: No, no.
COLLINS: Who was that?
COMEY: A good friend of mine who’s a professor at Columbia Law School.
“I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul
Well, assuming that to be true, why should Comey even be particularly concerned about the existence of tapes? Because - LITERALLY! - "if he did nothing wrong, he has nothing to worry about" - it's his world. Tapes should only corroborate Comey as long as he's been telling the truth - and they still wouldn't really damn Trump, IMO. (I think the quotes Comey attributes to Trump are way too weak to be considered trying to obstruct justice.)
WHO stands to be made to look worse if tapes come out? If everything Comey has said is accurate - it still fails to show that Trump did anything illegal. So, what is everyone clamoring for? Does the media/establishment just want to conjure up images of Watergate by focusing on "tapes" that probably don't even exist?
According to him, he wasn't concerned; he wanted to force the tapes to be released because they would prove his version of the story and discredit Trump's.
It was Donald who first made mention of the tapes.Well, assuming that to be true, why should Comey even be particularly concerned about the existence of tapes? Because - LITERALLY! - "if he did nothing wrong, he has nothing to worry about
WHO stands to be made to look worse if tapes come out? If everything Comey has said is accurate - it still fails to show that Trump did anything illegal. So, what is everyone clamoring for? Does the media/establishment just want to conjure up images of Watergate by focusing on "tapes" that probably don't even exist?
“I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul
Comey Headlines: From Vindication To Impeachment (Both Ideas Cannot Be Right)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-10/comey-headlines-vindication-impeachment-both-ideas-cannot-be-right
Comey Testimony Clears Trump
The Hill reports Dems’ dreams dashed as Comey testimony clears Trump.
The much-anticipated day had finally arrived. Democrats breathlessly awaited the testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey, certain that his testimony would topple Trump. But high hopes turned to dashed dreams when Comey’s testimony cleared President Trump.
1. There was no investigation into President Donald Trump.
Not only did the testimony vindicate the commander in chief, it included a startling revelation that Obama-era Attorney General Loretta Lynch attempted to influence the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton.
2. The mainstream media accusations of Russian collusion were inaccurate.
On Feb. 14, The New York Times reported based on infamous anonymous sourcing “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts with Russian Intelligence.” Today, we learned that story “was not true,” in the words of Comey.
In fact, the story so upset Comey that he surveyed the intelligence community to see if there was something he was missing. He took the extra step of seeking out Republican and Democratic senators to say that the article was not factual.
Comey went further in his testimony pointing out the problem with the media’s anonymous source reporting. “The people talking about it often don’t really know what’s going on,” he said, later adding, “[T]here have been many, many stories reportedly based on classified information … especially about Russia that are just dead wrong.”
3. No one ordered Comey to stop an investigation.
Sen. Richard Burr bluntly asked Comey, “[D]id the president at any time ask you to stop the FBI Investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. elections?” “No,” Comey replied. Comey then went on to confirm that no one working in the administration asked him to stop the investigation either.
Comey’s admission that he was not ordered to drop the investigation aligns with Wednesday’s testimony from NSA Director Mike Rogers and DNI Director Dan Coats. Rogers testified, “I have never been directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate.” Coats likewise said, “I have never been pressured” nor have I “felt pressure to intervene.”
4. No votes were altered in the 2016 election.
5. Attorney General Lynch tried to influence the Clinton criminal investigation.
Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch rightfully came under heavy fire for secretly meeting Bill Clinton on a tarmac just days before his wife, former Secretary of State and presidential contender Hillary Clinton, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the FBI. Today, we learned Lynch tried to influence Comey by asking him to call the criminal investigation a “matter,” not an “investigation.”
The request “confused me and concerned me,” said Comey, who saw this as an effort to ask the FBI to coordinate its messaging with a political campaign.
Taken together, when pushed on providing evidence of Russian collusion over the past few months, Democrats like Sen. Dianne Feinstein were forced to admit they had none. “Newspaper stories,” she cited last month to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. The same newspaper stories Comey called into question today.
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“I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul
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Given his history, he was probably bullshitting, but now there is a special counsel who will either get the tapes or force him to admit he was bullshitting.
Yeah I just wouldn't trust "Tapes" in this day and age anyways. This political witch hunt is just a distraction anyways I bet behind the scenes they are good friends. This just seems like a big dog a pony show to me. If the private industry can digitally reproduce Michael Jackson every night on a Hologram then I bet the government could produce any sort of tape they wanted, if they wanted to fake a moon landing today, they definitely could.
Donald has a history of threatening people with tapes and never actually producing them. Most likely there is no grand strategy here, just the same reaction out of habit.
“I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul
Sessions is supposed to testify on Tuesday. Look for another media circus and then check and see what the rest of Congress is up to that day.
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"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
...i strongly sense that trump's financial record$ would clear a lot of stuff up...quickly...but alas, the same gd fool republicans, who would be screeching like a wounded rabbit were a democrat to snub requests for honest financial$, are frantically apologizing for their miserable orange republican creep...
#republicanssucklikeahoovervacuumcleaner
Trump's Tweet does seem like a reaction. A reaction to what? What threat and from whom was he responding?
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Probably one of those meanies in the TV.
“I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul
Come on, that is disappointing and lame. As our resident expert on left-wing, neoconservative media, the answer should have been at your fingertips.
It was in response to Comey leaks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/u...ey-firing.html
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
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A paraphrased quote from ThinkProgress?
When the president is cornered, he has a habit of making up recordings that later prove to be totally fictitious.
https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-big-tell-c869a372370a
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
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No, there are first-hand accounts.
“I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul
You are citing the NY Times?
“I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul
One of your favorite sources. You should have remembered the sequence of events. Comey leaked, Trump responded. And the circus continues...
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
Proponent of real science.
The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own, and do not represent this forum or any other entities or persons.
This sequence seems incomplete.
“I don’t think that there will be any curtailing of Donald Trump as president,” he said. "He controls the media, he controls the sentiment [and] he controls everybody. He’s the one who will resort to executive orders more so than [President] Obama ever used them." - Ron Paul
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