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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
A second consecutive day of bombshell stories sent the Trump administration scrambling after the New York Times reported Tuesday that President Trump implored FBI Director James Comey to drop the bureau’s investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s ties to Russia at a February meeting.
The White House issued a response minutes after the story posted to the Times website, denying the president ever made such a request.
According to the Times report, which has since been confirmed by multiple news outlets, Trump broached the subject of the investigation into Flynn’s ties with Russia, asked Comey to “let this go.”
From the Times:
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Comey, according to the memo. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
This is getting ridiculous. Either there are those in the Whitehouse trying to bring him down at great risk to their own career or else he needs to go. We have to see the tax returns. We have to know if there are tapes and if so listen to them. If this memo from Comey is not true then it must be proven, I don't think anyone is going to take Trump's word over Comey's.
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Kasich ripped into Trump last night to the extent that he rips into anyone. Once again reminding us that he refused to go to the Republican convention.
But what we know for certain is that Trump met privately with Comey in the oval office, asking Pence and Sessions to step out while he had private words with Comey. This conversation, according to Comey, was Trump asking him to drop the investigation of Flynn. Comey did not drop the investigation and saw this request as "appalling" and documented it. He did not tell anyone else at the FBI, further supporting the fact that he did not let it affect him as far as stopping the investigation, however it does raise the issue of why he didn't mention this in the hearings he was at after this took place. We then know that in public Trump asked Comey to pledge his loyalty to which he only agreed to pledge to be truthful. Following this Comey was fired for "grandstanding" and doing "a bad job".
Trump's version is different, but it also differs from Spicer's version and it differs from Mike Pence's version. The Whitehouse has released 3 different official versions of what took place. However we have witnessed Trump try to undermine the US Judicial process when his travel ban was rejected and also when Trump U was being sued. Being involved in thousands of lawsuits does damage his credibility to me. Refusing to release his tax returns makes me think he is hiding something. Hiring numerous people who had to be fired due to their involvement with Russia makes me trust him even less.
When Trump was elected it was like he was put in charge of driving the bus I was on. From that point on I was hoping he could do a good job. My attitude has changed. I would exit this bus at the very first opportunity, my concern over his ability to operate the bus has gone from questioning to being convinced I don't want this person responsible for my safety.
Fox host: No Republicans 'willing to go on camera' after Comey memo
So Trump has burned his bridges with the CIA, NSA, FBI, Whitehouse Staff, Republicans and even Fox news.
It does seem he was right, everyone is now tired of winning.