FUCKING IDIOT [But, there will still be those (Meso) that believe!]
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.
Mr. Comey made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his
allegation on Twitter. Mr. Comey has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down Mr. Trump’s claim because there is no evidence to support it and it insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said.
A spokesman for the F.B.I. declined to comment. Sarah Isgur Flores, the spokeswoman for the Justice Department, also declined to comment.
A statement by the Justice Department or Mr. Comey refuting Mr. Trump’s allegations would be a remarkable rebuke of a sitting president, putting the nation’s top law enforcement officials in the position of questioning the truthfulness of the government’s top leader. The situation underscores the high stakes of what the president and his aides have set out by accusing the former president of a conspiracy to undermine Mr. Trump’s young administration.
Comments:
That Donald Trump got away with reckless, baseless and unsubstantiated "rumors" as a private citizen (such as his birther nonsense) made him a deplorable character--which, for the non-readers like Trump, means "deserving strong condemnation." That this wildly unfit and unqualified president is allowed to continue his daily, constant lying to the public and making crazy, again baseless and unsubstantiated claims needs to be stopped immediately.
If congress doesn't move to condemn this man publicly and take appropriate action, the intelligence community and literally everyone else must.
As for the press and our society in general, it is time to stop the coddling and genuinely vilify this dangerously incompetent and morally bankrupt person. Donald Trump is a stain on our country and presents a clear and present peril to our democracy. The office of president, the American people and the workings of our entire nation have never been so disrespected as they've been by Donald Trump--and the voters who tied this weight to our country's ankle. The chain of Trump must be severed. Immediately.
This aggression will not stand.
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Back when Richard Nixon was flouting the law, the Republicans of the day placed country above party and took the necessary actions to preserve our republic. That is apparently not the case today, as we watch the Republican party leadership and rank-and-file perform incredible feats of mental and verbal gymnastics to support Mr. Trump's outrageous words and actions. They have no shame.
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As president, Trump has worked to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the courts, the CIA, the FBI, Congress, the electoral system, all regulatory agencies, and, not least, the media that might inform the public about his concerted and continual efforts to undermine all authority--with the exception of his own. What would we think if we saw the leader of another nation deploying this strategy?
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