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After closed door meetings with FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday, top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee looked grim and rattled and refused to divulge the contents of the meeting to reporters.
At around 5 p.m. E.T. on Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) faced reporters but revealed little about their meetings with Comey. “This briefing was all on sensitive matters,” Feinstein said, “and highly classified and it’s really not anything we can answer any questions about.”
Comey has been at the center of multiple controversies lately, from his decision to make a later-discredited announcement about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email server in the days before the 2016 election, to whether or not his agency is currently investigating Donald Trump’s campaign for allegedly colluding with the Russian government.
After closed door meetings with FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday, top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee looked grim and rattled and refused to divulge the contents of the meeting to reporters.
At around 5 p.m. E.T. on Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) faced reporters but revealed little about their meetings with Comey. “This briefing was all on sensitive matters,” Feinstein said, “and highly classified and it’s really not anything we can answer any questions about.”
Comey has been at the center of multiple controversies lately, from his decision to make a later-discredited announcement about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email server in the days before the 2016 election, to whether or not his agency is currently investigating Donald Trump’s campaign for allegedly colluding with the Russian government.
Gee-wiz, "highly classified" egh?
Guess we'll have to wait for Obama's inbeds to leak it.
Comey has been at the center of multiple controversies lately, from his decision to make a later-discredited announcement about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email server in the days before the 2016 election, to whether or not his agency is currently investigating Donald Trump’s campaign for allegedly colluding with the Russian government.
I think its absolutely impossible to beat Trump in an election, because he is so smart at gaining the upper hand in the face of any type of controversy.
That Access Hollywood tape was the best example.
And now we have Obama's dirty shadow government attempting to destroy President Trump.
President Trump will destroy Obama.
The only thing Obama was good at was leaving Iraq wide open for ISIS.
President Trump is wisely keeping the evidence close to his vest, because he knows Obama's people are everywhere.
Keep gathering more evidence before you pull the trigger.
Those sorts of "smarts" are only as good as the rest of us are dumb...
Verified and was Tapped in Oct. 2016 by Fiser Warrant ad nothing was revealed, but the tapping continued.
Wrong, wrong, wrong...
YOUR OWN GOP has said it didn't happen...
Trump is just his own worst enemy---
When you analyze his conversation about how he came to "discover" Obama wiretapped him, there are SO MANY inconsistencies and truth shadings that his nose should be 4 inches longer than when he started the interview....
Truth just doesn't matter to him--
It never has....
The problem is that he is never held accountable for these lies/truth shadings....
Never to any real degree---
His supporters have vanishing memories and can't remember from one 20 min segment to another and the media just as often don't call him out when he reverses his position or puts another spin on his position....
But you want to believe this happened the way Trump said--
So ahead--
Don't let truth get in the way of worship...
The Senate Intelligence Committee (Burr) just now came out with the strongest rejection yet of Trump's tweet storm. In contrast to the House, it gathered information through calls to various government entities that Burr previously said satisfied him.
No indications that Trump Tower was subject to surveillance (exact word) by any element of the US government either before or after the US election.
Clearly, Congress wants this shut down. Time to do the government's business. Get back to work.
Funny (or not) that in an attempt to prove his case, Trump now has turned to Fake News (the Jan. 20 NYT article). No mention of Breibart.
The conundrum many politicians face is that they dutifully set off for Washington full of good intentions buoyed by the hopes of their constituents only to encounter ... that swamp. Now no argument that some of the swamp is nefarious, those so-called crooked lobbyists. Lobbyists may well be a Trojan Horse of sorts in that they do come bringing a nominal gift - and that is information. Too, the expertise of the bureaucracy is now being defined as part of the swamp. Off with their jobs.
Trump may have a point. Most politicians encounter a reality of sorts once their feet cross the DC line ... some of that reality may be the long-honored American tradition of political compromise ... some may be those pesky "facts" that keep cropping up.
Is any altering of a politician's course an acknowledgment of a new-found reality or is it selling out and joining the swamp to keep his or her job? Or something in between? You know the expression ... the eye of the beholder.
Trump, though, is arguably taking a course that differs somewhat from other politicians for He Is Keeping His Campaign Promises which thrills his supporters even though not surprisingly he's already countered the familiar roadblocks, say for healthcare ... the politics of even a Republican Congress and facts (the CBO estimates, which incidentally were said to be much *better* than the ones run by OMB originally intended to counter the CBO).
So the relevance of this to the thread? The narcissism. Trump is famously not ideological and it would be hard for even his supporters to maintain that he has a sound grasp of policy. All politicians are somewhat narcissistic but when reality intrudes most are able to put that aside to respond with varying effectiveness.
Trump's narcissism may well be more entrenched with the keeping of the promises and applause of the fan base satisfying enough that it overrides effective response to reality ... like for the tweet storm.
Just my take.
Once upon a time I had to register as a lobbyist, and although I feel strongly about the problem of special interest money influencing our elected representatives, I understand a bit about both sides of this issue/problem. A hard one to fix to any degree of satisfaction, maybe even impossible, which leaves us with the need to trust our elected representatives to do the right thing despite that influence. Transparency is also very important to balance against the corruption of closed-door dealing that benefits the few at the expense of too many others.
I am not impressed with Trump in the way you seem to be, by simply or apparently "keeping his campaign promises." On any given issue, our focus needs to be on what is the best policy all considered, then how best to execute that policy. Barring the necessary examples and/or specifics that are required to evaluate Trump in those regards, so far I think Trump is doing more harm than good. At the same time, Trump continues to display characteristics that I do not view as intelligent, well informed or appropriate, making me less and less comfortable that Trump will do the right thing in the event of crisis, or to avoid crisis, that I suspect is inevitable. If not because of the fact we live in a volatile world already, Trump is more likely than Obama, I think, to tilt us into a conflict even more escalated in proportion to what we were dealing with before he took office.
Lots of people including Obama and Sanders have pointed to the problem of money in our political system, the water that makes that "swamp" what it is. Even Trump highlighted the problem when he explained on that national stage of some 17 GOP contenders for POTUS that everyone on his left and right had taken his money. I gave him credit for doing so in more than a comment or two in this forum. Unfortunately, I don't hear him talking about that anymore now that he is elected, nor do I think he'll follow through with change for the better in these regards rather than worse, as already seems to be emerging with the ACA2.0...
The Senate Intelligence Committee (Burr) just now came out with the strongest rejection yet of Trump's tweet storm. In contrast to the House, it gathered information through calls to various government entities that Burr previously said satisfied him.
No indications that Trump Tower was subject to surveillance (exact word) by any element of the US government either before or after the US election.
Clearly, Congress wants this shut down. Time to do the government's business. Get back to work.
Funny (or not) that in an attempt to prove his case, Trump now has turned to Fake News (the Jan. 20 NYT article). No mention of Breibart.
President Trump said the media reports peaked his interest, he didn't say that was evidence.
Anyway, President Trump is very confident about his evidence delivering the goods, based on his interview with Tucker.
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