TAKE THE POLL: HOW LONG BEFORE TRUMP GETS IMPEACHED
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you are probably right
but .... as his numbers fall and approval ratings fall... so does his support with the right
every week something new comes out and they can't stop it
Which is why the Dems may not impeach him even if they have support from the right...because Trump helps them in midterms and Pence hurts them and is just as crazy but without the tweets to tip everyone off.
that doesn't appear to be the case right now
@PAWG&CubanDom If the Dems can take more seats back in congress - they will have more ability to maneuver in congress to move to impeach him.
Ok you wrote alot there @hoping hubby but lets tackle the Treasonous statement and it not being a Fact first. It is illegal for a foreign government to penetrate into a private US based computer system. Only a US law enforcement agency with a warrant could legally fine, or ******* with the threat of facing prison-time an IT systems Administrator to turn over any emails which were on Hillary's private email server and not the State Department's systems which was part of the problem to begin with. If the IT SYS ADMIN does not comply he would be guilty of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE (we will see this again).
The US Government does not break into a US citizen's computer systems without a warrant from a court, having seized the computer systems, conducted in a law enforcement facility, recorded as evidence, and maintained in a tight chain of custody to avoid tampering for any use in a court trial. Russia finding the emails wouldn't prove anything as they wouldn't be admissible in a US Court of Law and again they are a foreign Agency and a US person asking them for assistance especially against another US person/Federal Agency could be constituted as a Treasonous Act. Read the Treason statute once again.
Your statement about the FOIA request is completely wrong because they only apply to Federal Departments and Agencies and AGAIN wouldn't apply to Hillary Clinton's private email server. I know alot about FOIAs being on the issuing and receiving end of many of them over my life and would definitely be a more knowledgeable subject matter expert on that issue than you or the good liberal lawyer on Fake News you have been praising so much about but that is a whole other matter.
And you want to talk about someone being legally wrong, sheeesh - look it up for yourself - FACTS: https://www.foia.gov/how-to.html
People want to keep pivoting to Hillary Clinton which is a waste of time I wont bother responding to. I didn't care for Hillary either and I don't think she is worth defending but I did have to correct your non-factual statement about the FOIA and nothing wrong with Trump asking the good Ol' Ruskies for help. That was easy to counter your claims there.
Now the issue at hand has nothing to do with Hillary or Obama who are not elected officials representing on behalf of the US nor when they were in office did they have a whole cabal and shady cast of characters surrounding them secretly working, getting paid, and having back-channel communications with the Russians. Get off the Hillary *******-can already and get your heads back into the present and clear danger this country is faced with and we all suffer the consequences with the short on brain-cells, short-temper tantrum twitter thumb-fumbling fool with his hands on the Nuke codes.
Now you want a legal code cited on what laws, statutes where broken and violated well lets start with the main one:
18 U.S. Code Chapter 73 - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Look it up yourself.
ref: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-73
Again like the Watergate incident, it wasn't as much about the break-in or actual crime but the cover-up. The crime was Trump's campaign colluding, and co-spiring with a foreign government and entity to attack a private US institution and degrade the process of our democratic system. All of the investigations into the matter to uncover what has actually happen, who did what, and see that justice is served have been obstructed by the Trump Administration and his co-conspirators (ie. Devin Nunes, and the likes of them).
Now back to my long-winded rambling posts full of
FACTS...
AND SOME MORE MEMES LATER.
AGAIN READ IT ALL AND WEEP FOR THIS FOOL THAT HAS MADE A MESS OF HIS OWN DOING REGARDLESS OF HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT COMEY AS A SHOWBOATER OR WHAT HAVE YOU:
Comey's prepared testimony is "the most shocking single document compiled about the official conduct of the public duties of any President since the release of the Watergate tapes," wrote Benjamin Wittes, a close friend of Comey and editor-in-chief of Lawfare. Wittes added that it was difficult to express "just how inappropriate" Trump's interactions with Comey were, "particularly when they involve an investigation in which the President has such deep and multifaceted personal stakes."
Preet Bharara, the former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York who was fired by Trump, tweeted that it's "NEVER ok for a POTUS privately to ask an FBI Director to drop a criminal investigation. Extraordinary, wrong & dumb."
Bharara was referencing a section of Comey's remarks in which he detailed a February Oval Office meeting during which Trump said of Flynn: "He is a good guy and has been through a lot. I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy."
The meeting took place one day after Flynn was ****** to resign as national security adviser when it emerged that he had discussed US sanctions with the Russian ambassador during the transition period and then misled Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts.
Such remarks would "confirm that" Trump obstructed justice in the case, said Jens David Ohlin, associate dean at Cornell Law School and an expert on criminal law.
It was "corrupt for Trump to have attempted such a brazen and direct interference with the Flynn investigation," Ohlin added.
'Comey's statement establishes obstruction of justice'
Jeffrey Toobin, a senior CNN legal analyst, tweeted that "Comey's statement establishes obstruction of justice by Trump. Period."
Comey's prepared remarks "absolutely bolster the case for obstruction of justice," said Claire Finkelstein, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
The former FBI director's testimony suggests Trump was implicitly attempting to allow Comey to keep his job on the condition that Comey provided loyalty to him, Finkelstein said.
"Requesting on multiple occasions that Comey do things like drop the Flynn probe and publicly announce Trump is not under investigation is one thing," Finkelstein added," but "implicitly suggesting he may not keep his job and then firing him when he doesn't absolve you personally in a dispassionate and objective investigation — that looks a lot like obstruction of justice."
Obstruction of justice is broadly defined: It involves any conduct in which a person willfully interferes with the administration of justice. But to charge Trump with obstructing justice based on Comey's testimony would not be an easy case, said Robert Deitz, a former senior counselor to the CIA director and former general counsel at the National Security Agency.
That is primarily because it is unclear whether Trump was ordering Comey to end the FBI's investigation into Flynn or asking Comey if he would consider dropping the case because Flynn was "a good guy."
Ohlin said Comey did not seem to interpret the request to end the Flynn investigation as a request to shut down the entire Russia probe. "That's a very generous interpretation on Comey's part — and Trump should be counting his lucky stars for that," she said.
But Trump's conversation with Comey was part of a broader pattern that could more easily open him up to charges of obstruction of justice, experts say, beginning with Trump's request for Comey to pledge his loyalty and assurance that he wasn't under FBI investigation and ending when he fired Comey.
"Historically, obstruction-of-justice articles of impeachment do elaborate a pattern of conduct," the legal experts at Lawfare wrote. "The first article of impeachment against Richard Nixon, for instance, included making false statements to investigators, withholding evidence, counseling witnesses to lie or give misleading testimony, and 'interfering or endeavoring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.'"
Bob Bauer, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, also questioned whether Trump's "demands for reassurance, by their very repetitiveness," implied that Trump "was bringing pressure on the person in charge of a criminal investigation to limit it." In doing so, Bauer wrote recently, Trump was obstructing justice.
Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota who was President George W. Bush's chief ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, told Business Insider last month that "obstruction of justice would be occurring if there were an express or implied threat to fire" Comey if he didn't drop the Russia probe.
"That's obstruction of justice. The president fired the FBI director," Painter said. "It's all evidence of a major scandal and abuse of power."
'Another devastating blow'
The written testimony may be somewhat of a relief for the president's allies, because Comey indicated he did convey to Trump that he was not personally under investigation and that he did not feel the FBI's investigation was being directly obstructed, said Keith Whittington, a professor of politics and expert on presidential impeachment at Princeton University.
But on the other hand, "Trump clearly engaged in grossly inappropriate behavior, which can probably only partly be attributed to his inexperience in government," Whittington said.
He added that Comey's remarks appear to highlight Trump's lack of understanding of the gravity of his responsibilities.
"It is another devastating blow to the president's stature and credibility," he said.
When it comes to examining whether Trump sought to obstruct the FBI's investigation into Russia's election interference and the Trump campaign's role in it, the president's pattern of behavior and past statements about the probe could likely come back to haunt him. (Trump's comments about barring Muslims from the US were similarly considered when federal courts were debating the intent behind his two controversial executive orders on immigration.)
"What is most remarkable is that the president has willingly created this self-portrait," Bauer wrote. "As scandals in the making go, this one may become famous for featuring the president as the principal witness against himself: he seems committed to uncovering any cover-up."
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/comey-testimony-obstruction-of-justice-trump-russia-2017-6
******* I WAS ABOUT TO BRING UP GOOD OL MISS AGENT PLUME in another post before. Good call there @subhub174014 and the MEME is 100% FACT!
Just like here go some more FACTS dropping like Bird ******* on there heads just pissing off these fools trying to refute or counter anything we post up on here:
The Post's Adam Entous wrote that Trump and several government officials met for a briefing at the White House on March 22. After the meeting, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and Mike Pompeo, who heads the CIA.
"The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey's handling of it," The Post reported.
Trump's complaints came just days after Comey confirmed in a public hearing before the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI was investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
Trump previously asked Comey to drop the investigation into Flynn, according to a memo Comey wrote about the conversation that was cited by The New York Times. Trump fired Comey on May 9 and later signaled in interviews that he had the Russia investigation in mind when he decided to make the move.
Flynn is one of several key players in a broad US investigation of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. Flynn was ****** to resign as Trump's national security adviser in February after misleading top administration officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, about multiple contacts he had with the Russian ambassador during the transition.
Flynn also drew scrutiny for his appearance at a Moscow gala hosted by the state-sponsored media outlet Russia Today in 2015. At the gala, Flynn was seated next to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Flynn was paid about $33,000 for a speech he gave at the event, but he did not disclose that payment on his security-clearance application in 2016.
Trump's senior White House adviser Jared Kushner has also been under the FBI's microscope for his interactions with Russian diplomats and business figures in recent weeks.
Some legal experts and critics have suggested that appeals to turn investigators off Flynn's trail combined with the timing of Trump's firing of Comey could skirt close to obstruction of justice. To date, neither Trump nor anyone associated with his campaign has been formally accused of any wrongdoing.
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-obstruction-of-justice-fbi-russia-michael-flynn-2017-6
MORE FACTS... (dont you just hate it that you can't defeat the TRUTH - IT STANDS UP AND DEFENDS ITSELF)
Former FBI Director James Comey will testify Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee — his first public statement since President Donald Trump abruptly fired him last month.
Comey's ouster has prompted more than a few comparisons between the ongoing Russia-related investigations and the Watergate scandal of the 1970s.
Both situations involve a break-in of the Democratic National Committee, the firing of top government investigators, and accusations that the president obstructed justice.
Comey's testimony wouldn't be the first time a leader of the FBI provided evidence of presidential impropriety — the deputy director of the FBI during the Nixon administration, Mark Felt, turned out to be "Deep Throat," the key anonymous source in the reporting that cracked open Watergate.
Last month, reports emerged that Trump had asked Comey, who was leading the top law-enforcement agency's investigation into whether Trump campaign officials colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election, to drop an investigation into Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Since those reports — and others saying Trump asked top intelligence officials to publicly deny that any collusion had occurred — comparisons between Watergate and the scandal consuming the current White House have become increasingly common.
And while it could be months before FBI investigators determine whether any wrongdoing occurred, Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, says Watergate can teach us a lot about the current moment.
Zelizer says that, as became true in Watergate, the most important question right now may not concern the ongoing investigations, but how the president has reacted to them — a question Comey is likely to address in his testimony.
"The original investigation of the original crime is often less important than how the president responds to that," Zelizer told Business Insider. "Does he abuse his power? Does he try to obstruct? How does he handle the scandal?"
Congress never determined whether Nixon himself ordered the 1972 break-in — he was ****** to resign after it was revealed that he attempted to obstruct justice and cover up the crime.
Comey's testimony, Zelizer says, is likely to reveal little or nothing about the FBI's investigation, but focus on whether Trump acted improperly in his response to the probe.
"The big question is how much does he talk about not necessarily his conclusion that the president obstructed justice, but, certainly, fears that the president's being improper," Zelizer said. "If he's willing to say that, I think that's enough for Congress to really accelerate this investigation."
In his prepared written testimony, which the Senate Intelligence Committee released on Wednesday, Comey called Trump's behavior "inappropriate" — a term open to interpretation and something lawmakers are likely to press him to clarify.
But Morton Keller, a professor emeritus of history at Brandeis University, said comparisons to Watergate were presumptuous.
"In my youth, there was an expression 'If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car,'" Keller told Business Insider. "If this has wheels, it may be another Watergate. But so far, I don't see the wheels."
He added that the lesson to take from Watergate was that "if there's smoke, there may be fire, but you got to find the fire first."
But Zelizer says that regardless of whether a crime is ever uncovered, the nation is in a similar position today as it was 44 years ago.
"It's more than fair to say that we're certainly at the place that we were with Watergate in 1973, where there were a lot of red flags and enough for Congress, for journalists, for citizens to be seriously concerned," Zelizer said.
What the 1970s can teach us
Congressional testimony can provide many pivotal moments in a scandal. It certainly did during the Watergate investigation.
In a week of testimony before the Senate's Watergate committee, Nixon's White House counsel, John Dean, was first to describe a complex and far-reaching secret intelligence-gathering operation that involved the president. He famously recalled a conversation in which he said he told Nixon there was a "cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it."
A month later, Alexander Butterfield, Nixon's deputy chief of staff, told the committee that Nixon did, in fact, have "listening devices" in the Oval Office. On those tapes, which the Supreme Court ultimately ruled must be released, Nixon was recorded discussing the cover-up of a break-in into the DNC headquarters in Washington, DC.
But politics are decidedly different in 2017 than they were in 1973. Congress is deeply divided along partisan lines, and Republicans hold majorities in the House and Senate. Democrats controlled both congressional bodies while the Watergate investigation was underway.
Zelizer said the kinds of questions Comey faces tomorrow might signal how willing Republicans are to hold their party accountable.
"Can the Republican Congress conduct an investigation and ask Comey the kinds of questions that the Congress of '73 was able to ask of Nixon administration officials, including Republicans?" he said.
FACT
BEWARE OF THE SPIN-MACHINE AND TRUMP'S WAR ROOM READY TO COUNTER-ATTACK AND DISTRACT WITH THEIR FALSE NARRATIVE PUMPED OUT OF FAKE-NEWS/AND BREITBART OF COMEY BEING A 'SHOW-BOAT' AND WATCH THE TRUMPSTER DUMPSTER TROLLS FLOOD ON HERE AND EVERYWHERE REPEATING THAT IDIOTIC RHETORIC.
Major cable news networks have featured countdowns this week to Comey's live testimony, which will interrupt regular programming and is being called "Washington's Super Bowl."
The Post described Trump as "consumed, haunted and antagonized" by the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between his campaign aides and the Russian government and "spoiling for a fight" with Comey.
"He's infuriated at a deep-gut, personal level that the elite media has tolerated [the Russia story] and praised Comey," former House speaker Newt Gingrich told the Post. "He's not going to let some guy like that smear him without punching him as hard as he can."
Dozens of White House aides and others close to the president told the Post that Trump is being encouraged by his top lawyers and advisers to refrain from commenting on Comey's testimony on Twitter. But they fear the president will ignore their recommendations.
Washington Post reporter Robert Costa said sources told him that Trump might even live tweet the Comey hearing if he feels the need to respond to Comey's testimony.
They also expressed concern about the political and legal repercussions of Trump's unpredictable behavior, and expressed dismay that the president does not seem capable of focusing on his administration's policy agenda.
One Republican allied with the White House described aides' response to Trump's public reactions as: "Please, don't, you're not helping things."
Trump has blasted Comey on Twitter repeatedly since firing him.
In May, Trump tweeted: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"
Trump has also called investigations into whether his campaign colluded with Russians a "witch hunt."
The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that Trump's aides are crafting a response to Comey's testimony that will attempt to undermine him and deflect attention away from his allegations, which Comey detailed in a prepared statement released by the Senate on Wednesday afternoon.
Sources told the Post that Trump's team is planning portray Comey as a "showboat" — a term Trump has used to describe him. A set of relatively low-profile surrogates are prepared to appear on conservative media outlets on Thursday in an attempt to disseminate the White House's message.
And Trump's messaging is being supported by allied groups outside the White House.
"If we feel he crosses a line, we'll fire back," said Ed Rollins, the chief strategist at the conservative Great America PAC, told the AP.
Just the day before Comey's scheduled appearance, Trump announced his nominee for FBI Director, Christopher Wray, a former assistant attorney general under George W. Bush who served as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's personal attorney during the Bridgegate scandal.
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-comey-senate-testimony-twitter-white-house
FACT...
HERE IS ONE SPIN-CYCLE NEWS STORY FROM THE TRUMP WAR-ROOM MACHINE:
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-response-to-comey-senate-testimony-fbi-russia-2017-6
BUT HERE IS THE REAL NARRATIVE AND REALITY
There's nothing in [the prepared Comey testimony] that's really new, that we didn't know from media reports," Issac Boltansky of political analysis firm Compass Point told Business Insider. "There's no smoking gun to point to that seems to make a case for obstruction of justice."
Despite the apparent lack of new information in Comey's prepared testimony, Boltansky said, the hearing would likely confirm the prior opinions of lawmakers and the public. That could be a hindrance to Trump's plans for tax cuts, a healthcare overhaul, and infrastructure investments.
"What's real is that the hands of time continue to fall," Boltansky said. "This is a sideshow, but it's a sideshow that comes at a time that threatens the president's and Republicans' agenda from getting done anytime soon."
Greg Valliere, chief strategist at Horizon Investment, agreed that the testimony represents a threat to anything Trump wants to do.
"Both parties will claim their narratives were reinforced, so this mess will drag on and on — and it surely means that the Trump agenda, which is stalled, will stay stalled," Valliere told Business Insider in an email after the release of Comey's remarks.
Boltansky said Democrats were likely to make life tough for Trump and the GOP, but there is a stronger case for that resistance now.
"Congress is like the NFL, it's a copy cat league," Boltansky told Business Insider. "Democrats saw that obstruction can work, so they know they can block Trump's agenda by slowing everything down and they can use the Russia investigation as cover to do that."
In the near-term, Valliere said, the biggest risk comes from Trump's reaction to the testimony more than anything it will likely contain.
"Let's see how Trump reacts to this testimony. If he rants tonight and tomorrow, he could suffer more self-inflicted damage," Valliere wrote, saying Trump should be calm since Comey's prepared remarks "could have been worse."
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/james-comey-testimony-trump-tax-cut-healthcare-2017-6
TRUTH IS THE TRUTH WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE ME OR WHAT I POST .... MORE FACTS.
Trump's approval rating was heavily correlated with party affiliation — 81% of Republican respondents said they approved of Trump's performance, while a paltry 4% of Democrats said the same. Trump earned praise from 35% of independents.
The poll caps a two-week period fraught with unpopular moves by the president. Last week, Trump announced his intent to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change, a move that 62% of poll respondents disapproved of. The president also earned scorn for criticizing the mayor of London in the aftermath of a deadly terrorist attack there.
The poll also comes amid mounting scrutiny surrounding the FBI's investigation into Trump's associates' ties to Russia and whether there was collusion to influence the 2016 election. James Comey, the FBI director whom Trump fired in May, will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, where he plans to detail some of his private interactions with Trump.
The poll's numbers reflect the public's increasing distrust regarding Trump's connections to Russia — 31% of respondents said they thought Trump did something illegal in dealing with Russia, and 29% said he did something unethical but not illegal.
When voters were asked about Trump's campaign advisers, 40% said they thought the advisers did something illegal in dealing with Russia, and 25% said they did something unethical but not illegal.
More than two-thirds of voters, 68%, reported feeling very or somewhat concerned about Trump's relationship with Russia. And 54% said the president was too friendly with the foreign power.
About one-third of respondents, 32%, said Trump did nothing wrong with Russia.
"There is zero good news for President Donald Trump in this survey, just a continual slide into a chasm of doubt about his policies and his very fitness to serve," Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, said in a statement.
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-approval-rating-june-comey-2017-6
OK, ONE OPINION PIECE
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-Poroshenko-no-bad-days-hes-a-sexist-man-2017-6
We now know who wears the dress and bends over taking it in the Putin/Trump relationship.
BEWARE OF THE SPIN-MACHINE AND TRUMP'S WAR ROOM READY TO COUNTER-ATTACK AND DISTRACT WITH THEIR FALSE NARRATIVE PUMPED OUT OF FAKE-NEWS/AND BREITBART OF COMEY BEING A 'SHOW-BOAT' AND WATCH THE TRUMPSTER DUMPSTER TROLLS FLOOD ON HERE AND EVERYWHERE REPEATING THAT IDIOTIC RHETORIC.
Major cable news networks have featured countdowns this week to Comey's live testimony, which will interrupt regular programming and is being called "Washington's Super Bowl."
The Post described Trump as "consumed, haunted and antagonized" by the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between his campaign aides and the Russian government and "spoiling for a fight" with Comey.
"He's infuriated at a deep-gut, personal level that the elite media has tolerated [the Russia story] and praised Comey," former House speaker Newt Gingrich told the Post. "He's not going to let some guy like that smear him without punching him as hard as he can."
Dozens of White House aides and others close to the president told the Post that Trump is being encouraged by his top lawyers and advisers to refrain from commenting on Comey's testimony on Twitter. But they fear the president will ignore their recommendations.
Washington Post reporter Robert Costa said sources told him that Trump might even live tweet the Comey hearing if he feels the need to respond to Comey's testimony.
They also expressed concern about the political and legal repercussions of Trump's unpredictable behavior, and expressed dismay that the president does not seem capable of focusing on his administration's policy agenda.
One Republican allied with the White House described aides' response to Trump's public reactions as: "Please, don't, you're not helping things."
Trump has blasted Comey on Twitter repeatedly since firing him.
In May, Trump tweeted: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"
Trump has also called investigations into whether his campaign colluded with Russians a "witch hunt."
The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that Trump's aides are crafting a response to Comey's testimony that will attempt to undermine him and deflect attention away from his allegations, which Comey detailed in a prepared statement released by the Senate on Wednesday afternoon.
Sources told the Post that Trump's team is planning portray Comey as a "showboat" — a term Trump has used to describe him. A set of relatively low-profile surrogates are prepared to appear on conservative media outlets on Thursday in an attempt to disseminate the White House's message.
And Trump's messaging is being supported by allied groups outside the White House.
"If we feel he crosses a line, we'll fire back," said Ed Rollins, the chief strategist at the conservative Great America PAC, told the AP.
Just the day before Comey's scheduled appearance, Trump announced his nominee for FBI Director, Christopher Wray, a former assistant attorney general under George W. Bush who served as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's personal attorney during the Bridgegate scandal.
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-comey-senate-testimony-twitter-white-house
FACT...
HERE IS ONE SPIN-CYCLE NEWS STORY FROM THE TRUMP WAR-ROOM MACHINE:
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-response-to-comey-senate-testimony-fbi-russia-2017-6
BUT HERE IS THE REAL NARRATIVE AND REALITY
There's nothing in [the prepared Comey testimony] that's really new, that we didn't know from media reports," Issac Boltansky of political analysis firm Compass Point told Business Insider. "There's no smoking gun to point to that seems to make a case for obstruction of justice."
Despite the apparent lack of new information in Comey's prepared testimony, Boltansky said, the hearing would likely confirm the prior opinions of lawmakers and the public. That could be a hindrance to Trump's plans for tax cuts, a healthcare overhaul, and infrastructure investments.
"What's real is that the hands of time continue to fall," Boltansky said. "This is a sideshow, but it's a sideshow that comes at a time that threatens the president's and Republicans' agenda from getting done anytime soon."
Greg Valliere, chief strategist at Horizon Investment, agreed that the testimony represents a threat to anything Trump wants to do.
"Both parties will claim their narratives were reinforced, so this mess will drag on and on — and it surely means that the Trump agenda, which is stalled, will stay stalled," Valliere told Business Insider in an email after the release of Comey's remarks.
Boltansky said Democrats were likely to make life tough for Trump and the GOP, but there is a stronger case for that resistance now.
"Congress is like the NFL, it's a copy cat league," Boltansky told Business Insider. "Democrats saw that obstruction can work, so they know they can block Trump's agenda by slowing everything down and they can use the Russia investigation as cover to do that."
In the near-term, Valliere said, the biggest risk comes from Trump's reaction to the testimony more than anything it will likely contain.
"Let's see how Trump reacts to this testimony. If he rants tonight and tomorrow, he could suffer more self-inflicted damage," Valliere wrote, saying Trump should be calm since Comey's prepared remarks "could have been worse."
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/james-comey-testimony-trump-tax-cut-healthcare-2017-6
TRUTH IS THE TRUTH WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE ME OR WHAT I POST .... MORE FACTS.
Trump's approval rating was heavily correlated with party affiliation — 81% of Republican respondents said they approved of Trump's performance, while a paltry 4% of Democrats said the same. Trump earned praise from 35% of independents.
The poll caps a two-week period fraught with unpopular moves by the president. Last week, Trump announced his intent to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change, a move that 62% of poll respondents disapproved of. The president also earned scorn for criticizing the mayor of London in the aftermath of a deadly terrorist attack there.
The poll also comes amid mounting scrutiny surrounding the FBI's investigation into Trump's associates' ties to Russia and whether there was collusion to influence the 2016 election. James Comey, the FBI director whom Trump fired in May, will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, where he plans to detail some of his private interactions with Trump.
The poll's numbers reflect the public's increasing distrust regarding Trump's connections to Russia — 31% of respondents said they thought Trump did something illegal in dealing with Russia, and 29% said he did something unethical but not illegal.
When voters were asked about Trump's campaign advisers, 40% said they thought the advisers did something illegal in dealing with Russia, and 25% said they did something unethical but not illegal.
More than two-thirds of voters, 68%, reported feeling very or somewhat concerned about Trump's relationship with Russia. And 54% said the president was too friendly with the foreign power.
About one-third of respondents, 32%, said Trump did nothing wrong with Russia.
"There is zero good news for President Donald Trump in this survey, just a continual slide into a chasm of doubt about his policies and his very fitness to serve," Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll, said in a statement.
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-approval-rating-june-comey-2017-6
OK, ONE OPINION PIECE
ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-Poroshenko-no-bad-days-hes-a-sexist-man-2017-6
We now know who wears the dress and bends over taking it in the Putin/Trump relationship.
NOW AFTER DROPPING ALL THOSE FACTS HERE ARE SOME MORE HUMOROUS MEMES THAT THE TRUMP-DUMPSTER TROLLS HATE SO MUCH 
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sorry didn't mean to steal some of your "thunder"
still party over country for the right!
CBS just announced that 56% of republicans do not believe the intelligence reports that there was any involvement between Russia and trump and think it is all made up by the left
CBS just announced that 56% of republicans do not believe the intelligence reports that there was any involvement between Russia and trump and think it is all made up by the left
You are 100% wrong on this, despite how much you claim to know about FOIA. When she comingled her government emails with her personal server, her private email server became federal government records, discoverable via FOIA. You can stomp your feet, cluck about your experience all you want, but it doesn't make it so. Here is proof....a unanimous decision on this very topic by a federal appeals court.
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/inter...2C985257FE7005038BD/$file/15-5128-1622973.pdf
Because we agree with plaintiff-appellant that an agency cannot shield its
records from search or disclosure under FOIA by the expedient
of storing them in a private email account controlled by the
agency head, we reverse the dismissal and remand the case for
further proceedings.
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If Comey was to be impartial and with the resources of the FBI at his disposal he should have went after Trump, Hillary and tracking the origins of the Russian hacking with equal vigor. And that way by equally going after the Democrats and the Republicans he could have remained impartial while drilling into how the Russians tampered with the election at the same time.
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Just a simple question to my knowledgeable friends here especially @subhub174014, @bigblackbull76, and @MacNfries. You might have missed it at the end of my recent post:
( https://www.blacktowhite.net/thread...ump-gets-impeached.92341/page-27#post-1410949 )
but since it went unanswered I'll repose it: If you had a magic wand and you could remove Trump as POTUS this second, who alive today would you insert as POTUS in his place?
( https://www.blacktowhite.net/thread...ump-gets-impeached.92341/page-27#post-1410949 )
but since it went unanswered I'll repose it: If you had a magic wand and you could remove Trump as POTUS this second, who alive today would you insert as POTUS in his place?
ABT!.... anyone but Trump!.... not sure... Kerry maybe?!
Trump Impeachment Process Set to Begin As Democrat Al Green Files Articles
Michele Gorman,Newsweek Wed, Jun 7 11:00 AM CDT
Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas is expected to submit articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Wednesday in the first legislative step for any congressional bid to ******* a sitting president from office
Obstruction of justice by the president is the problem,” Green said Tuesday. “Impeachment by Congress is the solution.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-impeachment-process-set-begin-160010494.html
Comey’s testimony strengthened the case that President Trump obstructed justice
Daniel Hemel,Vox.com 14 hours ago
Impeachment of the president has been moving from a protest cry to a legal possibility. “I take the president at his word that I was fired because of the Russia investigation,” former FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/7f31e7df-86a2-3c95-9416-f7affd83a5e0/comey’s-testimony.html
James Comey refuses to publicly answer whether he believes Trump colluded with Russia
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/james-comey-refuses-publicly-answer-163302641.html
funny those that are against Trump think Comey's testimony showed Trump is obstructing justice..... and yet those trump supporters think just the opposite AND still defend the man....... he was right during the campaign when he said he could shoot someone and would not lose any support!
Michele Gorman,Newsweek Wed, Jun 7 11:00 AM CDT
Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas is expected to submit articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Wednesday in the first legislative step for any congressional bid to ******* a sitting president from office
Obstruction of justice by the president is the problem,” Green said Tuesday. “Impeachment by Congress is the solution.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-impeachment-process-set-begin-160010494.html
Comey’s testimony strengthened the case that President Trump obstructed justice
Daniel Hemel,Vox.com 14 hours ago
Impeachment of the president has been moving from a protest cry to a legal possibility. “I take the president at his word that I was fired because of the Russia investigation,” former FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/7f31e7df-86a2-3c95-9416-f7affd83a5e0/comey’s-testimony.html
James Comey refuses to publicly answer whether he believes Trump colluded with Russia
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/james-comey-refuses-publicly-answer-163302641.html
funny those that are against Trump think Comey's testimony showed Trump is obstructing justice..... and yet those trump supporters think just the opposite AND still defend the man....... he was right during the campaign when he said he could shoot someone and would not lose any support!
maybe.... but he has served this country very loyally all his life
he just got trashed by the right when he made his bid for pres...... and like usual. AFTER the election the truth comes out and he was smeared by lies from the right.... but that has been their playbook for years!
just like this election and the way they smeared Hillary... everyone knew she would run and they started on Bengahzi... then the emails and all kinds of fake news.... only to find out later the emails had been "altered" by the republican running the committee....
it is the way of politics for the right!
Analysis: Comey testimony takes aim at Trump's credibility
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...y-takes-aim-trumps-credibility-221254340.html
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/...y-takes-aim-trumps-credibility-221254340.html
Bad news for President Trump: Republicans aren't rushing to his defense
The White House took comfort Thursday that former FBI Director James B. Comey did not directly accuse President Trump of trying to obstruct the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Beyond that, bad news abounded. In a nationally televised Senate hearing, Comey repeatedly ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/6afeb9...a7754d9/ss_bad-news-for-president-trump:.html
Bush White House Lawyer: Trump's in 'serious Legal Jeopardy'
Former Chief Ethics Lawyer for Pres. George W. Bush Richard Painter joins our panel of legal minds to explain why, after Comey's testimony, he believes Trump has some big legal hurdles ahead.
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/bush-white-house-lawyer-trump-202859875.html
The White House took comfort Thursday that former FBI Director James B. Comey did not directly accuse President Trump of trying to obstruct the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Beyond that, bad news abounded. In a nationally televised Senate hearing, Comey repeatedly ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/6afeb9...a7754d9/ss_bad-news-for-president-trump:.html
Bush White House Lawyer: Trump's in 'serious Legal Jeopardy'
Former Chief Ethics Lawyer for Pres. George W. Bush Richard Painter joins our panel of legal minds to explain why, after Comey's testimony, he believes Trump has some big legal hurdles ahead.
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/bush-white-house-lawyer-trump-202859875.html
The Comey questioning was only the beginning. He has more and will provide it to the proper investigative group. He was like a patient fisherman and provided bait which Trump took willingly. ( See, I told you I wasn't being investigated).He showed an honest approach which made Trump look bad and played it so well that nobody took issue with Trump being called a liar. My American friends want more now. The real disclosure battles begin now.
Americans, remember your Watergate history lesson and how long it takes to investigate. A strategy in this type of fight is to keep it lengthy and hope it goes away.
As a neighbor of a country that has always been great and strong and needs some reviving I hope you can find the right person to lead an honest charge into the future. I know that you can do better than the huckster that is leading now. Find the right person and you will be great again.
