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Justice Department appoints special prosecutor for Trump/Russia
Deputy attorney general appoints special counsel to oversee probe of Russian interference in election
http://wapo.st/2pVno3F ETA: Special council is former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Trump is **********. |
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Rosenstein only gave the White House 30 mins heads up. I think he was mad about being made a patsy.
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Imagining how furious Trump is right now gives me tremendous schadenfreude.
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He was the the Director of the FBI from 2001-2013.
He and Comey (then Deputy Attorney General) made the White House back down from their attempts at warrantless wiretapping back in 2004. This is really bad for Trump. I feel confident that Mueller will prosecute any crimes he uncovers. |
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Fake News.TM
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This moron has only been in office five months and he's already damaged the Presidency.
Also, the market's taking a dump. |
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I'm extremely disappointed that pre-campaign financial ties aren't part of the package.
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Mitch McConnell walked away from questions about this without saying anything.
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Me too! I have to say that watching this as an American expat is something else. If this were a political thriller I would say that it had jumped the shark by last week, yet in reality it keeps getting crazier and crazier. To the Americans on the board,what is the vibe on the street in your various necks of the woods? I'm hoping there is a palpable energy for this charlatan to get whats comin' to him.
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This was made possible because Jeff Sessions recused himself. Which he did as a response to it coming out that he lied about meeting with Russians during his Senate confirmation hearing.
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Rogue Staff is saying they are trying to calm the President by pointing out this will probably slow things down. I'm sure it will slow some, but it's not going to slow the WashPo and David Fahrenfeld. They will keep attacking
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I wonder if there are really "tapes". And I wonder how many non family members know about them. And I wonder how hard it is for a POTUS to destroy "tapes" without collaborator(s). If this sort of mayhem happens, I picture the longtime bodyguard in on the action.
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Shock, horror, suspense, astonishment, disbelief and delight. If this were a Netflix series I'd binge watch it at the deprivation of everything else. Is it too early to buy the champagne?
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(To Chrispy)
I divide time between my rock-ribbed Republican mom and culturally Mexican teenagers. Neither has been able to stand Trump for quite some time now. The significance of the latest development IMO is not as obvious to people who haven't been obsessively following the news. I've never been as glued to the Internet as I am now. If you check the news once or twice a day, there may be enough fresh scandal to make none of it look that serious. Even the news of a special prosecutor appointment. The kids can't relate to Watergate and though mom is "with it" in the moment, at 92 she has such severe short-term memory loss that at every headline she asks me, "Do you like Donald Trump?" "No, I can't stand him" is my stock response. |
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Can Trump fire the special prosecutor?
If so, how long until he does? |
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