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[Michael Scally MD]

[I Call BS ...]



As the White House braces for former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony Thursday, sources tell ABC News the relationship between President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has become so tense that Sessions at one point recently even suggested he could resign.

The friction between the two men stems from the attorney general's abrupt decision in March to recuse himself from anything related to the Russia investigation -- a decision the president only learned about minutes before Sessions announced it publicly. Multiple sources say the recusal is one of the top disappointments of his presidency so far and one the president has remained fixated on.

Trump’s anger over the recusal has not diminished with time. Two sources close to the president say he has lashed out repeatedly at the attorney general in private meetings, blaming the recusal for the expansion of the Russia investigation, now overseen by Special Counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller.

But sources say the frustration runs both ways, prompting the resignation offer from Sessions.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Timothy Snyder: Ukraine Is But One Aspect of a Much Larger Strategy That Threatens European Order
Timothy Snyder: Ukraine Is But One Aspect of a Much Larger Strategy That Threatens European Order

 

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The party of the irrelevant
Dems scrambling to flip Georgia seat in runoff, after losing streak

 

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/06/president-donald-j-trump-announces-key-additions-his-administration

 

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Pffffffftttttt....
Report: Comey Will Not Testify That Trump Obstructed Justice

 

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I'm sure this has already been posted in a more sober context, but I don't see those posts anymore : )

US Intelligence Says Russian Hackers Are To Blame For Qatar Crisis: CNN

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The nation’s top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials.

On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey’s handling of it, said officials familiar with the account Coats gave to associates. Two days earlier, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-to-testify-on-russian-interference-in-the-presidential-election/2017/03/20/cdea86ca-0ce2-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.162112aa5403 (Comey had confirmed) in a congressional hearing that the bureau was probing whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 race.

After the encounter, Coats discussed the conversation with other officials and decided that intervening with Comey as Trump had suggested would be inappropriate, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

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The nation’s top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials.

On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey’s handling of it, said officials familiar with the account Coats gave to associates. Two days earlier, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-to-testify-on-russian-interference-in-the-presidential-election/2017/03/20/cdea86ca-0ce2-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.162112aa5403 (Comey had confirmed) in a congressional hearing that the bureau was probing whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 race.

After the encounter, Coats discussed the conversation with other officials and decided that intervening with Comey as Trump had suggested would be inappropriate, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters.

You know how you can tell when its fake news? When they use a third party as a source. It's never the person/persons that were there that is used as a source. Like this story. This is the sentence that gives it away and it's in every story.

"The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey’s handling of it, said officials familiar with the account Coats gave to associates"

 

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You know how you can tell when its fake news? When they use a third party as a source. It's never the person/persons that were there that is used as a source. Like this story. This is the sentence that gives it away and it's in every story.

"The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey’s handling of it, said officials familiar with the account Coats gave to associates"

Ya and scally eats it hook, line, and sinker. I especially get a kick out of how these guys have a private conversation with the POTUS and immediately come out and blab everything to their "associates." Then the "associates" immediately tell "sources close to them." Really? You'd think they're high school girls gossiping about who they're going to get laid by. I guess there's lots of suckers born every minute.
The Weekly World News had better vetted articles about martians, 3 headed babies, etc. They even had pictures! Lol

 

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Another barry soetoro mistake corrected by Trumps appointee. Get em Mad Dog!
http://conservativetribune.com/mad-dog-mattis-putting-a-stop/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=lynx&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2017-06-07

 

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Trump gets the tree huggers on board with the border wall. Not only will we keep out ILLEGAL ALIENS, we'll generate green power too. It'll pay for itself! AnotherTrump win-win solution.
Report: Trump suggests solar panels for border

 

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The official U.S. position before today was that Washington was proposing to mediate the dispute between the different states, and urged all parties to seek de-escalation of the crisis. That was the line coming from both Tillerson and Mattis yesterday. The al-Udeid base in Qatar is important for ongoing anti-ISIS operations, and Mattis insisted that the rift between Qatar and its neighbors would have no effect on the war:

In regards to the implications for the counter-ISIS fight, I am positive there will be no implications coming out of this dramatic situation at all, and I say that based on the commitment that each of these nations…have made to this fight.​

Then Trump pops off this morning and effectively endorses what the Saudis, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt have done. That makes it less likely that there will de-escalation. Once again, there appears to have been no consultation with his top Cabinet members before making this statement, and I find it hard to believe that either Tillerson or Mattis thinks that Trump should have said this publicly right now (or at all). The Saudis et al. probably assumed that Trump’s Riyadh speech gave them a tacit green light to do what they wanted, but Trump’s latest remarks must have removed all doubt that they have Washington’s support to blockade and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/05/qatar-could-face-a-food-crisis-in-spat-with-arab-neighbors/ (starve) Qatar into submission.

The more worrying thing about this statement is that Trump’s opinion of Qatar’s activities seems to be guided entirely by what other leaders told him about their government.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

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Eric Trump: Attacks on president show 'the ugliness of Washington DC'