About time you came around...Thank you Republicans for making the case for Trump even stronger!
About time you came around...Thank you Republicans for making the case for Trump even stronger!
This memo is cherrypicked spin by a Trump loyalist. That is ALL it is.
It gives ZERO proof that the FBI is biased against Trump. ZERO. No proof of abuse of powers of any kind. This is an embarrassment for Nunes, an embarrassment for Trump, and an embarrassment for anyone who tries to use this TRUE nothing burger (yeah - this is what one looks like) to try to discredit one of our most important agencies.
This memo was written strictly as red meat for Trump's base. We all know that.
I see it as a sign of desperation.
A 20 something year old staffer, or whatever, on Nune's staff is not going to put together a plausible memo that "destroys" Mueller's legitimate investigation. It ain't gonna happen.
Have another drink.
You don't have to play. I don't care if you're aware of what happened today or not - you will be at some point.
Corruption can take a variety of forms. Nothing here rises to even close to a level where an organization like the FBI can be classified as "corrupt."
I'd say Nunes & the admin come closer to that characterization w/ this kind of reckless, partisan maneuver.
Not much else to say. Trump's entire strategy on this - disparage and discredit vital American institutions like the FBI, the rest of the intel community, the media, et al. - just to protect himself, is incredibly reckless and has been from the start. I don't see how anyone can see it as a reasonable, rational thing to do. How do we even calculate the lasting damage that could come out of something like this? And what's next? How soon before something like the Constitution becomes inconvenient?
FIFYSo the FBI used FALSE information to get a legal warrant..... THAT is the scandal.
Do you not get it?
The Dossier was *a political instrument* picked up by the FBI and used in a political campaign against a presidential contender. And after that contender won, it was used to justify an investigation into his *alleged* involvement with Russia in the election—in order to discredit it him and/or impeach him.
You know where they do that sort of thing? In Russia, for crying out loud. Talk about irony.
Mueller’s investigation just got gutted. I don’t know what Trey Gowdy has been smoking.
I mean, FINALLY they're the side that way overhyped something.
Big miscalculation here.
Not much else to say. Trump's entire strategy on this - disparage and discredit vital American institutions like the FBI, the rest of the intel community, the media, et al. - just to protect himself, is incredibly reckless and has been from the start. I don't see how anyone can see it as a reasonable, rational thing to do. How do we even calculate the lasting damage that could come out of something like this? And what's next? How soon before something like the Constitution becomes inconvenient?
So the FBI used FACTUAL information to get a legal warrant..... where is the scandal?
The spin/damage control over the next week is going to be epic.
Trump really doesn't think about things much. He reacts emotionally and impulsively. I think that probably works in real estate more than it does in global politics.
But if the information was factual, who cares?
But if the information was factual, who cares?
FIFY
It’s odd that it’s almost anticlimactic in a sense.
Some of us have been saying for months and months that the Fake News Dossier was the basis for Russia Mania AND the Trump/Russia investigation. The only thing the Memo proves is that we were right all along.
The only remaining question is how long the Mueller investigation can remain relevant in light of the Memo.
It was factual? Says who?
who were the ones talking about national security and how it would fundamentally undermine confidence in our institutions? pretty sure that was democrats. who were the ones trying to do a 11th hour hail mary talking about how the memo had been altered when the alterations consisted of semi colons and grammar corrections suggested by the democrats and FBI themselves?
Who was the side BEGGING the speaker of the house paul ryan to not release it? Oh yeah, democrats.
The Republican memo does not say the info is false!