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‘Clinton would have fired Comey too’
Sun Jun 11, 20176:56PMFormer US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton would have fired James Comey as the head of the FBI if she had won the presidential election, says an American analyst.
New York-based political analyst and radio host Don DeBar told Press TV on Sunday that Comey was running two major investigations into both presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Clinton, and could easily used the findings to “blackmail” either one later on.
Before the election, the dismissed FBI director led a controversial probe into Clinton’s use of a personal server to exchange government emails while she was secretary of state.
After the election, he began investigating President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia as well as a series of cyber attacks against Clinton’s campaign, which Democrats claimed were conducted by Russian hackers.
“He involved himself in… a pair of investigations, one of each of the two candidates that of course he should have recused himself from because no matter who won, his job would depend on the good graces of the winner,” DeBar argued.
“So, it seems what he was doing was gathering blackmail evidence against whoever would win and he tried to play his hand with Trump,” the analyst added.
On Sunday, Trump accused Comey of “cowardly” leaking his administration secrets “far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible.”
The raging tweet came three days after Comey’s sworn testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he publicly accused the president of seeking to derail the Russian probe.
He told the panel that a "friend," identified as a Columbia University law professor, was going to release to the press a memo of his conversations with Trump.
Comey said he had hoped the releasing of the memo would pave the way for the appointment of a special counsel to handle the probe into possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia, a ploy that ultimately proved successful.
Comey branded Trump a liar and said the president urged him to drop the investigation into the former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned earlier this year over his contacts with Russian diplomats.
DeBar said the whole thing was blown out of proportions by media on both sides and they all tried to spin it to their liking.
“I don’t believe there is any actual legal danger for the Trump administration, I don’t know if there is any political damage because there has been the same effort being put into this as been put into a string of things” before the November vote, he noted.Comment -
^ Trump even act like the kid isn't his. not sure if i've ever seen him touch him, talk to him, or treat him like a dad treats a son ever. There's only one of his kids that he looks at like he loves her. and we know why...Comment -
Trump has you scrambling for anything, huh?
Well, the only thing I'm thinking is that your betpoints account mirrors your bank account because you live under a lifelong delusion that you can create income betting sports.
I only make a handful of bets a year - and that's incidental and not what led me to SBR in the first place.Comment -
Trump tried but failed to cozy up to Preet Bharrara and then fired him when that failed. Sensing a pattern here? Trump thinks he can govern like a mob boss.
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lol desperate d2 doing all he can do
Preet Bharara says Trump attempted to build relationship before firing him
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Great news! Newt seems worried.
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It takes approximately 1 week of this forum to block Brooks. If you havent yet you are wasting time. I have tons of GOP friends. They all bring quality opinions to the conversation. I disagree with most of them but understand. Brooks is a tool bag waste of time. Reading his post will make you less informed.Comment -
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Trump praises his presidential accomplishments
Mon Jun 12, 2017 6:29PM
US President Donald Trump smiles during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 12, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
US President Donald Trump has praised himself for what he claimed to be one of the best legislation records compared to almost all other presidents before him.
"I think we've been about as active as you can possibly be and at a just about record-setting pace," Trump said.
Trump claimed in his first six months in office he had accomplished more than all previous presidents, except Franklin D. Roosevelt.
His comments come at a time when polls show his approval ratings are suffering due to serious doubts in the public about Trump's truthfulness in his remarks.
Trump’s record of telling lies spans decades and covers a wide range of issues, according to media reports.
False statements by Trump over the years include, relations with women, how much money he had and so on and so forth.
Critics say Trump’s only record, compared to other presidents, is his record number of lies.
Former FBI director James Comey, in a congressional testimony last week, testified that Trump had lied about his handling of the Russia probe.
Trump decided to “defame me and more importantly the FBI by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly run … Those were lies, plain and simple," he told the committee.
Analysts say any reasonable person would realize that the businessman-turned-politician would never win an honesty and integrity match up against a career law enforcement official, under oath, with tape recordings to back his claims, even if Trump did not have a reputation of being a liar.
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Trump may 'go down' over Russia controversy: Sen. Graham
Republicans are pressing Trump to come clean about whether he has tapes of private conversations relevant to the Russia probe.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says President Donald Trump might eventually “go down” because he cannot keep quiet about the investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia.
"Here's what's so frustrating for Republicans like me: You may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop inappropriately talking about an investigation that, if you just were quiet, would clear you," Graham said on CBS's Face the Nation.
The South Carolina senator, however, said that he did not believe President Trump had obstructed justice following revelations about his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey about the Russia probe.
In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, Comey publicly accusing the president of seeking to derail the Russian probe.
The ousted FBI chief branded Trump a liar and said the president urged him to drop the investigation into the former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned earlier this year over his contacts with Russian diplomats.
Read more:
Trump slams ‘cowardly’ Comey over leaks
Trump has strongly rejected the allegations.
US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Newark Liberty Airport in Newark, New Jersey on June 11 2017. (Photo by AFP)
Sen. Graham, meanwhile, called for former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and current Attorney General Jeff Sessions to also testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“That needs to be in our committee,” Graham said. “Let me tell you this, to the American people. If the attorney general's office has become a political office, that's bad for us all. So, I want to get to the bottom of that, and it should be in Judiciary.”
The senator said the chaos is proving harmful to the president's policy agenda. “At the end of the day, he’s got a good agenda, but this gets in the way of it.”
Other Republicans are also pressing Trump to come clean about whether he has tapes of private conversations with Comey and provide them to Congress if he indeed does.
"I don't understand why the president just doesn't clear this matter up once and for all," said Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Republican Sen. James Lankford agreed that the committee needed to hear any tapes that might exist. "We've obviously pressed the White House," he said.
Trump and his aides have so far dodged questions about whether conversations about the Russia investigation have been recorded.
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America was better under Obama: McCain
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While Trump thinks Comey going 1st was a boon for him so he can debunk (lie) what he said, Comey has already
said what most of us knew to begin with. This outta be good.
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