All this on the day that Trump pardons Scooter Libby. Nihilistic hogwash.
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Another smear campaign by Trump to hide what is really going on. The biggest bully we have had as president ever.
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No deal. How about this: You and all NY "Trump has a 9% chance" Times readers will read Breitbart only for 1 year to see the mirror image of the NYT. And Trump supporters will read the NYT.
Although Breitbart is not nearly as politically homogenous as the Times nor as fervently in favor of Trump as the Times is against him, it will still shake you out of your brainwashed liberal feedback bubble. Deal?
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Think about Whitey Bulger,he was not allowed at trial to raise issues of fbi corruption,Delvecchio protecting Gregory Scarpa,Hoover secret files.
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Look, a squirrel!!
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From way out here in the heartland (a.k.a., flyover zone, rustbelt, Midwest, Middle America, Michigan), it sure seems like Washington has devolved into a giant Den of Backstabbers. Apparently not even high officials in the FBI can be trusted to do the right things, let alone the Pathetic Parade of Partisan Putrification masquerading as a functioning political system in our nation's capital. Donald Trump was elected more than 500 days ago, but the incessant hate mongering on BOTH sides makes it seem like an eternity.
Meanwhile, the mundane yet essential business of government gets undermined, delayed, distracted and ignored. Our budget deficit is soaring sky high, thanks to a deal supported by both parties. Kids are being gunned down in our schools, thanks to a complete lack of bipartisan resolve to address this issue one step at a time (yes, it takes compromise on both sides). 12 million illegal immigrants have no pathway to citizenship for yet another decade (they should be paying taxes, not hiding). Our borders are not secure. Housing costs are soaring...and there are hundreds of other pressing issues that get no attention.
Yet all we get from our high-paid "public servants" in Washington is an endless circus of accusation, investigation and defamation. How utterly disgusting and sad for the rest of us.
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Lies, it's all lies! How offensive such unethical conduct must be to Donald Trump.
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Wow! Even the NYT calls the report 'scathing' and 'unsparing in its assessment of Mr. McCabe'. And yet the comments section is filled with McCabe defenders. Unbelievable.
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The attempts at diversion are beginning to look more and more desperate and pathetic.
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Who is Mr. Horowitz? Is he beholden to AG Sessions? Or to the POTUS? I want to know that before I come to any conclusion.
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This is only the first IG report to be published covering a massive rogue operation undertake by public officials in the Obama administration to try and remove a duly elected President of and for the people of the United States.
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Lying to FBI is a crime USC 1001 (if in doubt, ask Bubba Clinton or Martha Stewart or Scooter Libby), and IG report confirms that McCabe LIED under oath THREE TIMES.
He should be indicted and punished.
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Draining the swamp.
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Voters got who they voted for. A businessman-president who surrounds himself with shady, unethical, if not criminal, businessmen. A businessman who, for his entire life, has employed lawyers to maximize his profits and push legal limits for self-gain. (where did voters see themselves in this scenario?!) Now we, the taxpayers, are paying for this “business model” for years to come. An avalanche of court cases. Thanks, America.
“Den of thieves and lowlifes”? One only needs to read our president’s name-calling tweets to understand where the “lowlifes” reside. No fake news required.
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Compare and Contrast: the firing of Andrew McCabe and the pardoning of Scooter Libby.
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“He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!" Does our fearless leader seem more unhinged than usual? Of all people, he'd be the one to know about a den of thieves . . .
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This was a political if ever there was one, and I'm sure if they look, they will see some tie between the IG and Trump or Trump's favorite sycophant: Jeff Sessions. Session's pistol-grip ears aren't there for decoration.
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While some of the Americans who continue to approve of Donald Trump's presidency may be looking only at Fox News, many must be following him directly on Twitter. Now they've seen this:
"He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!"
Their preferred President of the United States is clearly unhinged, apart from being rock-bottom in the first place. At least that's clear to people who don't drowsily take their own common sense as a given.
If Trump's approval rating continues to bob along at about 40%, let it be remembered that he was not the only one who was untethered to truth.
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McCabe is probably one of the good guys that the bad guys want to destroy just like they want to destroy Comey. One thing shines through: Trump's weird obsession with Hillary Clinton is nuts.
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Can the NY Times stop acting like anything that comes from the president and any of his regulatory flunkies has any semblance of truth? Does the NY Times have trouble calling these people liars? This headline unfortunately sells a falsity. Why not "...Faulted in a Questionable IG Report"? Stop trying to protect these miscreants.
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Scooter Libby pardoned same day as unofficial release of McCabe IG report. J. Edgar Hoover is smiling, but I am not confident he is looking down on us.
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A lying leaker! He should be ........ pardoned. Wrong guy...sorry.
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Given McCabe's lack of candor I would think he could become Attorney General next since Sessions has lied the entire time he has been in the position.
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So a totally biased report was written about McCabe, Oh yeah this is called fake news by you know who.
It's okay for Trump to call an investigation into him biased but god forbid that his DOJ did a totally unbiased report against the wishes of Trump or more heads would fly.
This is not the America that I grew up in.
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Will the same inspector general please investigate Trump?
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The IG office has a sterling record and reputation. Now we will see who among our "friends" is an ideologue.
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Enough of Trump and has childish Twitter rants!!! Trump's public attacks on the FBI have to stop - they have become more than embarrassing - they have become a danger to our country, as Trump's followers follow him down the sewer, disrespecting our intelligence community for one reason, and one reason only - Trump's need to cover his tracks. In order for him to escape the coming reckoning, he must discredit the FBI and everyone connected with it. After Comey and McCabe, watch as his attacks on Mueller's team intensify.
The report showed that McCabe "lacked candor", it didn't say he "lied". A lack of candor means that NO LIE could be proven. Trump, a barely literate drowning man reaching out for any life preserver within his reach, was certainly pleased, but I wonder how he would have reacted if the report by Michael Horowitz (appointed by Obama) had turned out differently... Let me guess: "LIES! LIES! ALL LIES!"
Mr. Trump, a "lack of candor" does NOT mean a person "lied". You, however, lie every single live-long day. If you only lacked candor, we could tolerate you. But you don't lack candor - you LIE!
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Trump needs to file a defamation suit against these democrat controlled clowns,they are the ones that defamed his name.
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“He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!” - Donald Trump.
This, from a president of the United States of America. We’ve reached the point of coming under the rule of one of the “bad Caesars”.
A spoiled tyrant who won’t be denied and throws tantrums via twitter.
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Andrew McCabbe is fired for lack of candor. Truly rich.....coming from "This"
administration.
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Why hasn't the Justice Department indicted McCabe for lying to investigators as it did Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos?
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How about indicting Sessions for lying under oath about his contacts with the Russians?
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This is all hearsay. If they had proof of lying, he would have been charged in a minute.
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Well, yes, on face value the report is utterly scathing. However, read the actual newspaper report by Barrett: https://www.wsj.com/articles/laptop-may-include-thousands-of-emails-link...
Barrett focuses on the numerous bits of information about the Clinton email investigation and the Clinton Foundation investigation is almost casually referenced. In addition, he refers to numerous sources discussions among various FBI and DOJ with regard to email case, and other investigations. It makes it clear that a very large bundle of leaks was going on for him to have all these insights.
These leaks about the various discussions among FBI and DOJ people were surely part of what the FBI investigators as well as Comey, McCabe and the various chiefs were trying to discover and tamp out. The item about McCabe and PADAG (gotta love all these acronyms) was small potatoes in this article.
Clearly a question re this particular (authorized) leak could easily have been an afterthought in a leak discussion with McCabe or for that matter between McCabe and Comey. Who else at the FBI is going to be fired one day before retirement for lack of candor? They had this info for months prior to the firing. One gets a hugely different impression of the level of importance of this authorized disclosure when reading about how many FBI and DOJ people were discussing this investigation with Barrett.
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So Trump is upset that McCabe violated FBI policy in leaking information about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. And Trump is also mad at Comey for leaking information about an investigation into Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner 's computer. It's great that Trump is so much above politics that he is upset about the FBI damaging his opponent's reputation.
Wait--what?
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Talk about due process. The IG report was not published until today, but Mr. MCcabe was fired ahead of the final report. I trust this matter will be addressed by a court of law soon.
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McCabe was fired based on the recommendations by the FBI Ethics Cmt
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The day Trump pardons a person for lying to the FBI (about revealing classified information that exposed a CIA spy), a report is conveniently released just before the Comey book so Trump can lash out at McCabe for lying to the FBI and claim this is all part of the “deep state” conspiracy.
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I'm reading this story late in the afternoon, so the full report may already have been released.
That said, this article is scarcely revelatory. In fact, it falls into Peggy Lee's lament: "is that all there is?" Maybe Goldman and Fandos would have done better to wait and include excerpts.
The headline writers should read the stories first. "Scathing." I must be reading a different story. Shouldn't the headline read, "DoJ Inspector General Faults McCabe . . . yada, yada,yada."
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Pretty clear this partial report was released TODAY and not when complete to give Fox and other pro Trump media outlets something to rage about this weekend.
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Deputy Director Andy McCabe of the FBI is a good and decent American hero.
Trump the light headed and Mike Horowitz might feel differently, but their deeds speak louder than their empty words.
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How ironic that it is Jeff Sessions who fires Andy McCabe on the grounds that Mr. McCabe showed a lack of candor under oath. Isn't Sessions the guy who testified under oath at the hearing held to consider his nomination for AG that he did not meet with Russians?
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Why do so many people think this story supports Trump or reflects badly on Hillary Clinton? I remember reading the original WSJ article and the whole thrust was the FBI talking to reporters as election day neared about a Clinton Foundation investigation going nowhere, which was in line with all the public talking Comey was doing about the Clinton email investigation. And it's no secret that McCabe discussed this with reporters because pro-Trump line FBI agents in the New York office were agitating for a Clinton Foundation investigation and going to the media with their complaints. Meanwhile, total silence from the FBI about its very active FBI investigation of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. This is the story of the FBI's conduct during the campaign. That anyone thinks this demonstrates a pro-Hillary FBI is insane.
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The most interesting revelation is that the basis for McCabe's termination is his disclosure that the FBI (including McCabe) wanted to issue subpoenas in the Clinton Foundation investigation and it was the DOJ refusing. This completely undercuts the assertion that McCabe was biased towards Hillary, the key allegation against him from Nunes, et. al.
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Obstruction of Justice.
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"President Trump, who fired James B. Comey as his F.B.I. director, took to Twitter to disparage him as a leaker and a liar, a day after excerpts from Mr. Comey’s upcoming memoir were shared".
The above was from the story directly above this story, it was inferred that Comey has near sainthood now that he has written a book about the President of the United States hands.
He also talks about Trump's wife. He has proven that he is a "slime ball", this is as low as it gets. Then this story sort of somewhat hidden below the Comey story. Comey's lieutenant lied undert oath, how can anything these FBI people say or write be read without a wink and nod to the truth.
The shame is now on the mantle of the FBI, and it was caused by Comey and McCabe.
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McCabe, Comey, Mueller, Paige and Strock have tainted the FBI.
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No one could possibly taint our Presidency, country & standing in the world as DJT has.
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Further proof that the FBI is tempts corrupt agency in US history. Sorry folks but The Untouchables was a TV show and just the opposite of the reality. If you don’t believe me, ask Chuckie Schumer.
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To characterize Mr McCabe as "under scrutiny" is not quite correct. He is under "attack" from the Trump administration and the Republicans who want to discredit him, Mr Comey, and the FBI.
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I urge everyone reading these comments to read the OIG's report on McCabe before commenting. If Mr. McCabe is interested in challenging his firing in court, then let him get started. But, with this as evidence that he is going to have to refute, it is going to take some pretty fancy footwork and some pretty high-powered lawyering to pull it off.
A subtext of the report is the culture at the top of the FBI under Comey and McCabe. An analysis of this culture suggests an FBI far different from that which we are lead to believe.
The common thinking, or shall we say the thoughts that the FBI itself tries to push onto view, is that the FBI is an institution of both integrity and effective checks and balances.
This report speaks to the lack of integrity that was extent at the time. It is not a pretty picture.
The checks-and balances part of the culture is notable for its absence. And one of the conclusions that can be easily drawn is that McCabe and his fellow deputy directors were given free reign to do pretty much as they pleased. Absent from this whole affair appears to be any meaningful management control on the part of Director Comey and an active interest in keeping Director Comey pretty much in the dark.
When the culture assessment turns to look at Comey as a manager, it would appear that he was duped by his underlings or willingly turned a blind eye.
There were many involved in this carrying this lie...Why would no-one else broach the subject to the boss?
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When this all gets out; McCabe, Comey, and Clinton will be the colluders in this mess. The Democrats think they are going to gain seats this fall--slim and none are their chances.
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Mr. Sessions accepted the recommendation of the FBI with respect to Mr. McCabe’s ability to retire. There is no dispute over that. Yet The NY Times and other MSM outlets continue to promote the false narrative that that decision was the President’s and the AGs.
It wasn’t.
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"Mr. Sessions said that Mr. McCabe had repeatedly shown a lack of candor under oath..."?
That's RICH!
Didn't Sessions show a clear "lack of candor," make misleading statements, repeatedly claim he "didn't remember" things, and apparently even commit perjure himself in HIS testimony before Congress?
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Complete nonsense unless ruled otherwise by a disinterested Federal judge.
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McCabe has not only betrayed his office and the public trust, but he has played into an anti-institutional counter narrative from enemies of our country that constitute an existential threat to democracy. The insider threat turned out to be "hidden" in plain sight. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
McCabe led torture research program.
"Interrogation"= torture
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/usa-interrogation-techniques-a...
"In 2009, he served as the first director of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, a program to research interrogation techniques that was created after the Department of Defense Directive 2310 ban of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques."
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I’m as anti-Trump as they come, and I wanted to believe McCabe, but you can’t paint this report as being political. Michael Horowitz was an assistant U.S. attorney during the Clinton administration, and the IGs office is staffed with professional career personnel, not political appointees.
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To the Republican conspiracy theorists whose opinions miraculously appeared at the same time with unusual reader support considering the the NYT demographics, by all means howl at the moon. Trump and his minions will still go down for the count.
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And meanwhile, back at the ranch, Mueller keeps grinding away.
Boom
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If Scooter Libby gets a pardon, and McCabe is "convicted," the President will surely pardon him as well, right?
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The report of the DOJ Inspector General, Michael E. Horowitz, regarding Deputy F.B.I. Director, Andrew G. McCabe, will stand in history as an example of a politically driven hatchet job.
With embarrassingly inept circular reasoning, Horowitz, disgraces himself, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and even many people working in the Trump White House.
President Donald J. Trump is making a desperate attempt to discredit Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, former F.B.I. Director, James B. Comey, the entire F.B.I. and -- ultimately -- Special Counsel, Robert S. Mueller.
Seeking to avoid allowing Mueller’s accelerating impeachment train to gain enough momentum to become unstoppable, Trump and his loyal supporters are prepared (1) to destroy everyone connected with the investigation, (2) to bring down the Republican-controlled House and Senate, and (3) to start an unnecessary trade war with China and then even an unnecessary shooting war with Iran as distractions.
The one thing Donald Trump is unwilling to do is utter a critical word against Vladimir Putin about Syria, chemical attacks or cyberwarfare in the United States. Instead, Trump goes through the charade of begrudgingly imposing a few sanctions against Russian oligarchs no longer in Putin’s favor.
America is on the verge of a Constitutional crisis, but a large majority of Americans already have reached their verdict on Donald Trump. That verdict will survive all of Trump's dirty tricks.
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The truth comes out and the liberals now have serious egg on their face. How does it feel to be played?
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Hmmm. So what he leaked, and denied leaking, was about a possible investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Very funny that Trump fired him. I wonder if Trump knew that's what he was leaking about.
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I've noticed that if you reverse the meaning of what Donald Trump says, it's a lot more likely to be true than if you take him at his word. So if Donald Trump is shouting "LIES! LIES! LIES!" It's probably TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH!
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Is Horowitz making a case against McCabe for speaking to the press with a lack of candor when he was acting director of FBI, or before he was acting director?
Can anyone explain this situation to me in simple language? I've read the article twice and I don't understand it.
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Comey and McCabe's statements to the IG contradict. One of them is lying. Obviously they will both testify during McCabe's appeal of his termination. I'm betting that Comey is telling the truth, especially since McCabe mislead two New York FBI executives by berating them for the leaks that McCabe himself had authorized. Pages 12-13 of the Report (see the link in the first paragraph of the article) gives both the McCabe and Comey versions. There is no way to reconcile these contradictory statements to the IG.
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I hope that McCabe gets to defend himself in a court of law for lying under oath.
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After reading the report in its entirety, the case against Andrew McCabe is thoroughly convincing. Throughout the document I searched for holes in the OIG's report, looking for opportunities to find that the case against McCabe was politically motivated, but I couldn't find a single instance. McCabe's attempts to cover up what he had done are laid out in meticulous detail and the excuses he offered as explanations aren't even clever.
It's very disappointing as I wanted to think the best of him, but apparently so did those within the FBI who first questioned what he knew in relation to the leaks. Not only did he allow his pride to interfere with what he knew was right, he was willing to throw everyone else under the bus in order to keep his actions from being discovered. After a weekend of conscience wrestling, he did manage to pull two people back out from under that bus; the two he had directed to talk to the reporter.
It's a shame that someone who had such a distinguished career up to that point would so easily throw it all away for the sake of correcting misperceptions about him. It's sadly ironic that the actions he took to protect his reputation ended up destroying it.
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"The (Washington post) article said that some F.B.I. agents thought that Mr. McCabe had slowed the investigation."
And yet, McCabe had to shut down his crowdfunding when it reached $500m.
With so many liberals caring less to little about laws of our land, it will not be a surprise if Trump wins CA and NY in 2020 -- if illegal immigrants are not allowed to vote.
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It's not rare to witness an administration without some infighting. People on the same team won't always get along. However, a really good top executive (in this case the President of the U.S.A.) SHOULD be able to get people to work together. None of the last few presidents have been really good at that. Trump may have some good ideas that could benefit all citizens in the U.S. but he's not really a good executive. He may be clever in a few ways but he's not really a good executive. He may have sufficient numbers of his party in the house and senate but he divides them on policies and programs almost as much as he gets them to work together which indicates that he' not really a good executive. We can easily lay the "blame" on the poor leadership of both of our major parties. There may be something seriously wrong with several levels of the "leadership" in the Democratic and Republican parties. We need better leadership that we've had for the past 20 years.
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I don't care who appointed Horowitz. The timing of McCabe's firing and the release of this report on the eve of Comey's book was not done by accident.
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How rich is it that Atty Gen'l Sessions dismissed someone for having a "lack of candor"? Rich indeed.
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How rich! Sessions fires McCabe for his lack of candor in testifying before Congress when he himself repeatedly lied under oath about his own contacts, and those of the Trump campaign’s contacts with the Russians preceding the election.
Have you no shame, Mr. Sessions?
Sessions is a small, ungenerous, and odious human for firing an imperfect, but dedicated public servant (McCabe) several days before his retirement.
There was something corrupt and rotten in the Trump campaign.
Every public servant tasked with sniffing it out is in the line of fire from Comey to Mueller, including McCabe.
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"Lack of candor, or knowingly providing false information, is a fireable offense at the F.B.I." And yet the president lies on a regular basis...
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It's all politics and deep state self dealing; e.g. Comey... in July 2016 Democrats loved him. Three months later, October 2016, they howled their hatred.
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who can give this report the attention it deserves when we have the PRESIDENT of the United States tweeting like a 14 year old teenage girl. Our country is being destroyed -- who can fail to see this? !?
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The City on the Hill is beginning to resemble a Greek Tragedy. With Mr. Cabe's follies being attacked by Mr. Trump as proof positive that once a liar always a liar. Although there are grounds for dismissing McCabe on the facts - he lied about his complete role in distribution of information to a WSJ journalist, his lies pale in comparison to the Commander in Chief. The Tweeter-in-Chief is doing a victory lap on the finding of the Justic IG today, but he should be reflective on his own human frailties and refrain from gloating until the Stormy affairs are settled. In the meantime, irony prevails in this Greek Tradegy. Mr. Cabe's lie is directly related to the series of mishaps that some quarters consider the reason why Hillary Clinton lost the presidency. And the irony doesn't stop there. Mr. Trump claimed that Comey was fired - in part, due to his interference respecting loose disclosure repecting Clinton's emails that were seen as irresponsible, just before the November election.
I can't recall a period in modern U.S. political history, at least since Ike/Nixon, when confusion reigns alongside another 'Cuban-type' Crisis. The President's mental faculties and Big Macs find comfort from his gut-feeling. He also has a Big Button and nervous Twitter Fingers. The final act of the tragedy unfolding doesn't bode well for America and her allies.
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Tell you what Trumpers, I will make you a deal.
We, who are opposed to Trump, will not defend McCabe for any unethical or illegal behavior or activity, if you will give your solemn word to stop doing so for Trump.
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How convenient that this report was released today. Sessions must be so proud of himself. If Trump manages to get himself out of all this mess, he can certainly thank his friends at the DOJ and FBI. They're doing their best to help him out.
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According to the report, McCabe BLAMED the NY Field office for the leaks to WSJ when he was the one leaking like Titanic.
He is said to have LIED three times under oath and once when not under oath, both serious violations.
Why is he still a free man?
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I thought most Americans were aware of how our judicial system works: you can only be charged with perjury when accused of lying under oath IN COURT!
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The paragon of virtue who fired McCabe— Jeff Sessions— lied under oath to Congress several times about his contacts with Russian operatives during the Trump campaign. He is still a free man..... a free man running the Justice Department (into the ground).....
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Now it's time to delve into Mr. Comey's actions. His latest work of fiction notwithstanding, Mr. Comey is a man in need of truth.
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Sorry I've been on vacation for a couple days.
Which worm hole is this one again? Hard to keep track.
Rachel Maddow is looking overcome and overworked.
I sense the machine is about to hit TILT. but the pinball wizard probably has a pocket full of quarters.
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Mr. McCabe should not have been fired hours before his pension would be awarded. That was petty and vindictive, and resulted from a months long vendetta by Trump. He was leaving the FBI and had a 21 year long distinguished career. The timing of all this is suspect.
Now the RNC is running ads against the FBI former director James Comey. All of this reeks of attempts to denigrate the Justice Department and the FBI when there is an active investigation of Trump and his cabal.
Mr. McCabe like Sally Yates and others whom Trump has fired got in the crosshairs of the man who has a habit of attacking judges and investigations across many years. It is part of his strategy. Charge judges with bias, charge investigators with bias, smear their reputations, attack the investigating agencies.
I would still believe McCabe and Comey far beyond any words that fall from Trump's lips or are clicked in one of his interminable constant vomit of tweets.
My trust is in the Justice Department, in the FBI and law enforcement, and in Mr. Mueller. Never in God would I trust Trump or his cohorts.
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Now we get to see the report a month after the very rushed firing of Andrew McCabe just 26 hours before he was to retire with a pension after 21 years of service. Moreover, with Donald trump tweeting months earlier that he should be fired and denied a pension, this just doesn't pass the smell test. The Inspector General first issues the report, the Attorney general, not the President, reviews it and makes a decision, and then the party involved has a chance to response. The process often takes months. Here is was completely short-circuited to a few days, and if there's one thing law enforcement should be aware of it is the 5th amendment that states, no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law." It's clear that Mr. McCabe was denied "due process" and that the President Trump obstructed justice in this instance.
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I agree, and that's why McCabe will have a case for reversing the firing decision. He was denied due process, which is the foundation of career civil service. McCabe's firing was quite simply political.
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This is just bizarre. All Trump has been able to uncover is that the FBI was working to undermine Hillary Clinton's candidacy and thus helping to elect Trump.
Most people who were paying attention in 2016 saw them doing just that. At the time, Trump praised them to the skies.
I think, when even more evidence comes out of the collusion with Russia Trump wants to be able to say "Well, yeah, but I didn't think I would win! I was just playing around! It was the darn F.B.I. that made me POTUS. So blame them!"
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Wait. So, was Andrew McCabe fired for a "lack of candor", or was he fired for "misconduct"?
Why was the President apparently notified about his potential firing more than 90 days ahead of time, if this was related to such serious allegations?
Why are both the firing of Andrew McCabe and the release of this report linked to increased activity in the Mueller investigation? Doesn't that lend a lot of credibility to the idea that this firing is, in fact, related to the Mueller investigation?
And finally, does this have anything to do with Donald Trump taking full responsibility for the firing of Director James Comey today in his tweet where he said it was his "greatest honor"?
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I could only imagine that McCabe would not be forthcoming and lacking candor if he had done something seriously wrong or were covering for others to give them time. I'm not sure what that is. Something doesn't quite smell right. Much of that smells like retribution and following through on Trump's publicly expressed wishes.
One lesson I do get quite obviously - in these troubling times, folks are doing their best to uphold the Constitution to which they swore an oath and are getting caught up in partisan politics which could care less about our Republic. McCabe and Comey are not perfect beings, but they are doing their best in as honorable a way they know how. How many men and women can say the same under similar circumstances?
I suspect a great deal more will reveal itself over the next few years.
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If a private sector employee were discharged days short of qualifying for a pension the Department of Labor would support the ex-employee's lawsuit.
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He lost only the right to retire at age 50. Now he’ll have to wait until he’s 57.
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Sorry, I wasn’t clear. McCabe did NOT lose his pension. It’s my understanding that McCabe lost only his opportunity to claim full pension benefits at age 50. Now he will not be entitled to begging drawing benefits unti he reaches age 57....
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McCabe disclosed there was an investigation into the Clinton Foundation and people on the right were upset? I'm missing something it seems. That means they announced two investigations publicly about HRC but none about Trump.
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How long is this Republican Congress going to allow the destruction of every one of our institutions? They are winning at exactly what Mr Putin wanted, making Americans doubt everything we believed about our democracy. Talk about winning the battle while the war is lost. Except in this case, the war lost is our country and all it stood for.
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The timing is obvious. Fox can now avoid the Comey book, by focusing on McCabe. The right wing will froth, keeping the focus off Trump's character.
Republican Machiavellian strategy is awesome. Comey claims, probably truthfully, that he announced the Clinton email reboot because he didn't want to appear like he abetted her victory, which he expected. Why? Because the GOP congress would have begun impeachment proceedings on her almost immediately. If Comey had kept quiet, Republicans would have made it part of their charge.
Now Democrats fret about impeachment talk about a President whom the founders could have used as an illustration for impeachment. Republicans tried to impeach a Clinton for lying about oral sex, while Trump lies about his taxes, his associates, his policies, his Russian links, and of course his many sexual victims.
Republicans specialize in contradiction. The attack on McCabe is for actions that hurt Clinton, and hurting Clinton is what the GOP practices. Just as they attack Comey for hurting Clinton. These contradictions manage to gum up the airwaves. I hope Lincoln was right, that you can't fool everyone forever.
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Might be just one more clash between a hardball crime fighter and an academically fuelled desk-jockey except for the fact that neither ended up holding an exploding case. Easy conclusion, as often, both extremes are wrong. The truth, possibly, is yet to come.
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This is so blatantly, obviously, clumsily and disturbingly about politics, about a complete lack of ethics on the side of a vast majority of Republican lawmakers and politicians and their unhinged sociopath of a leader that it reads like a bad thriller not worthy even of an airplane ride worth of guilty pleasure. There’s plenty of guilt to go around, but in order for its revelation to have any impact, the guilty parties would need to understand and feel guilty. Instead, they act as though they’re part of a Machiavellian, “Assassin’s Creed”-style video game; they are either knowingly aiding and abetting criminals and con men, naive to a degree that does other citizens a serious disservice, terrified, or all of the above and more. And, provided the American Justice System.
We are living in a tabloid. We are living in a sordid reality TV show presided over by a furious 5-year-old sociopath who has surrounded himself by sycophants. And, because we are in uncharted territory, we are afraid, and we are uncertain what to do.
Well vote, obviously. But we need more, because there is clearly an enormous amount of work to be done. “Reconstruction” failed following the Civil War, and the reverberations are deafening. We cannot wait for civil war. We need Reconstruction Now, in earnest. And in order to rebuild, reconnect, reconstruct successfully, we cannot allow a petty tyrant to continue to discredit, smear and degrade our Rule of Law. Full stop.
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I'm reasonably intelligent, and I'm lost.
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Dear Jim Cricket, You helped a wooden puppet become a real boy. Please do whatever you can to make Trump a real president.
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Not much of a story. I note that it receives less emphasis than the fact that Trump phoned his lawyer.
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Well I have to say again that I find it totally weird that Trump keeps uncovering the F. B. I. plot against Hillary Clinton!
I am thinking maybe this is so that when they uncover even more evidence of his collusion with Russia he can say " I never intended to keep my part of the bargain because I never thought I would be elected! You notice, don't you, that I never keep bargains? The Muller investigation would never have happened if I hadn't been elected! (as I intended not to be) So blame it all on the F.B.I.!"
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I'll reserve judgment and wait to read the report for myself. But firing a man on the eve of his retirement and jeopardizing his pension after 20 plus years of exemplary service seems excessive.
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Please, check the facts. McCabe did NOT lose his pension. He lost the right to draw full benefits at age 50. Now the poor guy won’t be able to draw his full pension benefits until age 57. Boohoo....
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Wow ironic that conservative Republican FBI agents did do wrong against Hillary. But Trump now appropriates that to pretend it was against him when they actually were shielding him at the time. But once in power the President of the Costra Nostra turns on those who help put it in place. So sad all around.
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It is common practice to call an elected official by their title, even after their term is over. Such as Judges, Governors, Senators and Presidents. I don't think that you would say Mr. Obama, but rather President Obama. The lack of respect to say Mr. Trump when he is the duly elected president undermines any pretense of being objective. Mr. Goldman and Mr. Fandos, it is President Trump. Not Mr. Trump.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/reader-center/why-does-nyt-call-presi...
It’s a free country for now. And I’ll admit that I don’t respect Mr. Trump. Nor do I think the tweeter-in-chief respects the office of the presidency.
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The current Justice Department IG served in that same position for five years under President Obama. The attorneys in his office are career professionals, not political appointees.
To question the motives and integrity of those who produced this report is to join those critics of Washington who claim everyone in government is corrupt. It is insulting to most career federal officials and, fortunately for our nation, wrong.
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Although he might not, I can accept that McCabe’s firing was justified because of “lack of candor” or lying.
SO are we to do about a President and Administration that lies all the time.
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the idea that anyone is above the law is disgraceful. if Mr.McCabe broke the law, then he has to answer for his crime. I think too many Trump haters want to tie this to the President/Mueller investigation because he's an unlikable man and he's a lightning rod for anger and and distrust on either side of the aisle. i don't think they have to be linked at every point.
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Well, do you think trump is above the law? By you’re logic, you’ve just justified the Mueller investigation.
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This is the what we do as a country when we either cannot find or intelligently debate potential solutions to the economic, political and environmental issues which loom so much higher than sexual escapades and procedural peccadilloes.
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Will there be some official way to exonerate Andrew McCabe, after Trump and the current shameful batch of Republicans are voted and/or kicked out?
This has been one of the most egregious displays of misuse of power I've seen. I want to see Mr McCabe officially restored to honor (and to his pension!).
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It’s obvious this firing was political.
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Can we agree that both sides are corrupt and that those on bureaucrats have their own agendas?
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This strikes me as a report that is technically correct, but the underlying conduct was not that significant. The actual revelation itself, even if self serving, would not have altered an investigation’s outcome. In fact, it is a story that would otherwise have been forgotten.
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When public trust in institutions is at an all time low and a long,-time public servant is fired by highly partisan political appointees, scathing reports of this nature do nothing to restore public trust.
I've had my issues with Mr. McCabe, but when it comes to allowing him to retire in dignity, I'm firmly on his side. This is about payback on behalf of a small-minded, vengeful president whose only agenda is to evade the hammer of justice.
The hammer is falling. Trump has nowhere to go but down.
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Agree...and what about all of this is 'scathing'? 'Scathing' is Trump's conduct...
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Let's ignore the facts when contradict your preferred narrative, hmm??
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Retire in dignity at 49 years old? That is just rediculous.
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Wait! Republicans said: "...highlighted the importance of truthfulness in federal law enforcement. " Dear Republicans: What about truthfulness from the President of the United States?
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What about truthfulness from everyone? How is it that most comments here rationalize lying- yet excoriate Republicans for lying? FBI liars are ok? No one has any principles any more. It's all tribal.
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Two key points about the "highly critical report":
1. First and foremost, Inspectors General of any federal government department have bosses. Consequently, IG reports can be written to come to a certain conclusion desired by the boss. This report appears to be such a concoction.
2. The report doesn't quite pass the smell test for not being a politically-motivated hit. It appears weak on evidence, and the flimsy evidence presented in the report needs to be reviewed by a court of law.
Perhaps, Mr. Andrew G. McCabe will challenge this report in a court of law.
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Did you actually read the 20-plus page report? You should before passing judgement. It is very detailed with many footnotes on the deliberate deception -- under oath, to Comey himself, etc. -- perpetrated by McCabe.
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I strongly agree with your first point. The second will be tested in court. I hope McCabe is acquitted. Otherwise, I agree with those who say we cannot defend the raid on Michael Cohen and reject, out of hand, the IG report.
IGs are independent operators. They have no boss.
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Andrew McCabe was fired because he represents the truth. That the truth was 'improperly' provided to a reporter does not change the truth. Jeff Sessions behaves as if truth is malleable. It is not.
Tick tock.
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There are 7.5 billion "truths" in the world. This isn't about truth. This is about the very essence and nature of reality. And yes, the so-called truth is malleable because in the not too distant past some people in certain circles made the truth "relative." And that's precisely why we are where now. The FBI, CIA, NSA are organizations who are deceptive by design, whether we like it or not, it's what they do. It's how they do. The office of the President is also partially deceptive by design, like it or not because it's a chilly world out there, and transparency is what everyone wants but no one want to give.
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Uh, he misrepresented the truth, including making multiple false statements under oath, as the report explains in detail. I'm so tired of reading misleading statements like this from people with a left-wing prejudice about McCabe, Comey, etc.
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"improperly"; as in "illegal"....
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From President Donald J. Trump's well-considered public utterances, spoken and tweeted, I deduce that he holds to his exact style as just another rowdy brawler throwing punches in a standard Queens, N.Y. bar fight.
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Be honest: Have you ever even been to Queens (and no, passing thru JFK and LaGuardia do not count)?
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He doesn’t have the physical courage to throw or take a punch.
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Read the report, if only to read about the head of the FBI's NY office being repeatedly chastised by McCabe for "leaks" that appeared in the WSJ articles. And the FBI head pointing out they wouldn't have had access to the info reported. And this was while McCabe was authorizing interviews with the WSJ reporter.
Or Comey saying that when he talked to McCabe about the WSJ articles and leaks, McCabe's response was "wasn't me, boss" (Comey's words) when, in fact, it was.
This is not a witch hunt.
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Ok. McCabe was fired for lying.
When do we fire Trump, who in words from his own tweet “LIES! LIES! LIES!?
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Exactly. But unfortunately you would not understand the extent of McCabe's untruthfulness by reading the NYT's incomplete story here.
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It will be interesting to see what the question was, McCabe's answer and why McCabe believes that he was not intentionally misleading investigators. I don't see how anyone can draw a conclusion that McCabe is guilty until everyone can see the report.
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The most interesting thing here is that Mr. Horowitz is expected to release a larger report about the (one assumes, totality) FBI action during the 2016 election.
Rather than snapshots along a broken timeline, THAT promises to be the better read.
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The President of the Unites States has quite a lot of power. Trump values loyalty over anything else- including our democracy, our checks and balances, and our citizens. If Trump appointees claim McCabe is dishonorable, I can not help but be skeptical. I want proof. Trump appointees are loyal to Trump, NOT our republic. Trump is dirty.
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President Obama had even more power, because the media loved him and he did not feel constrained by the law or the Constitution.
It is healthy that people who do not agree with Trump policies complain without being accused of racism. It is unhealthy that they complain about his personality.
It is positive that the perfidy of Obama in weaponizing the FBI and Justice Department is going to be revealed. the overwhelming majority of honorable FBI agents are doubtless relieved that enough of them remain to identify the corrupt officials and clear the names of those with honor.
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Inspector General is not a Trump appointee. In fact, he was appointed by President Obama.
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Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General of the DOJ, was appointed in 2012--that's during the Obama administration.
The Inspector General recommended firing McCabe. Nothing to do with Trump.
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Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General of the DOJ, was appointed in 2012--that's during the Obama administration.
And clicking the link in the first paragraph to the report--and then reading it--should dispel any notion that Horowitz is some kind of stooge for Sessions/Trump.
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Not a lawyer, not in DC, not a Trump fan, gotta say looks like McCabe did it. Ok, he leaked and lied about it, so not a saint. But his punishment seems awfully harsh to me.
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What we’ve seen happen again and again with this administration demonstrates his job could very well depend on how he writes the report. What administration has ever had the turn-over this one does? It’s about loyalty to the don. That Obama appointed Horowitz is immaterial.
I am sure he can be pressured or misinformed . Not everyone has integrity when their job is on the line. What I know is that this administration is rotten from the top down.
Lying to the FBI is a felony. 18 USC 1001. Ask people prosecuted by Mueller. Ask Martha Stewart. If McCabe isn't prosecuted, it's clear there's one law for high FBI officials, another for the rest of us.
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It will be interesting to see what the question was, McCabe's answer and why McCabe believes that he was not intentionally misleading investigators.
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That provision does not apply to an internal FBI investigation. I'd wait for the full report to render any judgement.
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It holds no value as Trump just pardoned Libby Scooter. He hates the Iraq War but pardons one of the main players. He doesn't and the RNC doesn't have a leg to stand on now. He needs to think before he acts.
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McCabe was rooted out by an Obama appointed man and McCabe still could not evade detection - this is really bad for McCabe - people go to jail for less, but something tells me the deep state will protect him.
Liberals will blame Trump, we all know it...
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McCabe’s guilt aside, Donald Trump certainly had his small hand in the timing of this. And it’s not “liberals” who will blame Trump. It’s anyone with a brain. REPUBLICANS blame Trump! It’s just that they lack the guts to stand behind their convictions, their constituents, and their country.
P.S. One can be a conservative and despise Trump. I’m not, but still. One can be, and many are.
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Glad you mentioned the "Deep State" that will protect McCabe. I am sure it is the same entity Swamp Drainer Trump is fighting against so vociferously. Just weird how all the Trump plumbers are either going to prison or, more likely, going to turn on the Master Plumber. Coo Coo ca Choo.
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Misleading, an FBI Deputy Director, and guilty of self-serving malfeasance and worked closely with his Holiness Comey. Doesn't look good, even for an unctuous toady like Comey. Perhaps, Mueller's future too.
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When will this all end?
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This is a huge story. I hope the NYT fully reports on it over the next several days as more details emerge. Bottom line, there was a group of individuals in the FBI and Justice that bent over backwards to exculpate HRC of misconduct then concocted a story of Russian collusion out of a phony dossier to inculpate DJT. This is the real story to cover, not silly pay offs to porn stars for keeping quiet about consensual sex. I guess this is payback for the Clinton witch hunt concerning his supposedly consensual affair with Monica Lewinsky. Can't we grow up as a nation. And sorry, each deplorable has the same vote as each non deplorable under our Constitution, don't they? If so, lets stop the sour grapes from the Dems and move on. Look at it this way Dems, DJT has done you a great favor by single handedly destroying the Republican party. Give his some credit and enjoy the upcoming blue wave this fall.
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"And sorry, each deplorable has the same vote as each non deplorable under our Constitution, don't they?.....Yes. Literacy tests were outlawed as a voting prerequisite many years ago.
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Actually, McCabe's alleged authorization of a leak to the WSJ was an effort to keep the investigation of HRC going. Curious, no?
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I guess you forgot about John Edwards and how he was 6 indictments for the exact same crime, yes crime, that Cohen is being investigated on? The Russian investigation isn't just about Trump. Its about Russians attacking our elections too. Protecting our country is the job of the President and Trump still refuses to acknowledge the threat.
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If you want a good time, look up the comment section for the NYT article announcing the Horowitz investigation. It's filled with people who somehow imagine the FBI senior management wasn't actively trying to shield Hillary Clinton.
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If you actually read the article, it's more like the Justice Department may have been trying to protect her, but many in the FBI, including McCabe apparently, were leaking like sieves in ways that would only hurt her. And then there was that Comey scolding that was completely against FBI and DOJ policy and precedent.
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Director Comedy and the ‘rogue’ FBI agents in the Manhattan Office speaking and leaking about Hillary during the Campaign all the while there was a Counter-Intelligence investigation ongoing into the Trump Campaign and there was not a peep out of the FBI makes it highly unlikely that the FBI was “actively trying to shield Hillary Clinton”.
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That would be the Republican FBI senior management, would it?
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According to the Washington Post:
"Melissa Schwartz, McCabe’s spokeswoman, wrote on Twitter that the timing of the document being handed over to Congress Friday was “fascinating,” then added, “But no report transmission to Mr. McCabe and no public disclosure from the Office of the Inspector General. The transparency of this Friday news dump is a joke.”
I looked at the DOJ Office of the Inspector General's website - nothing about this investigation for the public to read, nothing on their twitter account either. The fact that a copy of the report wasn't sent to Mr. McCabe or his lawyer is despicable and highly unprofessional.
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Congress got the report on Friday, a slow news day, to give Democrats time to develop their spin. The report is going to be released to the public on Tuesday.
Congress and the public were never given the inspector general's report on Lois Learner. Despite much evidence of political partisanship, the Obama administration suppressed the contradiction of his statement that there wasn't a scintilla of evidence of corruption at the IRS. That is one of his few truthful statements. There wasn't a scintilla of corruption at the IRS under Obama, it was widespread.
Mr. McCabe and his lawyer will have plenty of time to study the report as he defends the criminal charges and/or attempts to get his pension without waiting until he is 57.
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You do remember they fired him right? For lying to them. He misled them and leaked to the press what was classified information. Why on earth would he deserve special treatment?
The IG released the report to Congress, and through Congress to the American people. McCabe and his lawyers get access the same as other citizens. Or do you think they deserve special treatment? McCabe’s spokeswoman does him no favors. With her special pleading, she sounds like Huckabee.
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He leaked. Shocker.
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Leaked WHAT exactly?
He lied about it. That's the shocker.
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Nothing that I read in the report is scathing or surprising, except for the bold effort to back-fill the firing of McCabe and slander Comey. This should be concerning to all honest Americans. Nothing of value came from the investigations into Clinton's email server or the Clinton Foundation, despite the many attempts. Meanwhile the Trump Foundation remains under investigation in NY, and the many examples of pay-to-play with Trump's businesses are continuing, weekly news, as ethics departments complain to deaf ears. Like Benghazi, Clinton is publicly whipped for no good reason other than to cover the faults of her opposition. How this will end is anyone's guess, but the bald manipulation and aggrandizement of petty issues to discredit Comey and the FBI continue unabated. It makes me sick to watch the steady erosion of truth and honor coming from our highest offices.
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Did you read the report? Nothing came of Clinton's server or Foundation investigations because they didn't do one. They never assembled a grand jury or even authorized one subpoena. You can't have an investigation when you don't convene a grand jury.
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Um, yes. You can. Most investigations do not end up in front of grand juries. If no credible proof of malfeasance is found, an investigation is over. Where are you getting your misinformation?
Our only hope is each other. Vote. Vote Vote.
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"of repeatedly misleading investigators."
See, out here in flyover land we have another word for this. Lying under oath. That is, perjury. So much more to the point and truth than misleading the reader with "misleading".
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I grew up in ‘ fly-over country’. You do it no great honor.
We have a name for people in flyover land, it is called "Trump nation", people who throw claims like perjury at others, but refuse to recognize the reality of the Trump administration. Whether McCabe misled investigators or not remains to be seen, and if he lied under oath (you can't be charged with perjury for lying to an investigator, perjury only happens under oath; there can be penalties for lying to an investigator, though, but it is different.
Let me pose a question, though, if McCabe lied to investigators, if he violated the law, how come the Justice Department has not filed charges? Firing him from the FBI because of misconduct is not the same thing as committing a criminal offense. I suspect they won't file charges because then all the evidence has to come out, not just Horowitz report (which may not see the light of day, congress could easily keep it from the public). If McCabe thinks he was unjustly fired, he should file suit, once he does so then the facts have to come out, the government won't be able to hide the facts, and if they find Horowitz basically lied at the direction of Sessions, then he could get his revenge, or it may turn out he did lie to the investigators.
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Here's the thing.
Whether McCabe was "less than candid" during his interviews with various parties, has no, absolutely nothing at all, to do with Donald Trump's own continued lying and corruption.
Conflating the two issues is simply an injustice. McCabe will have his day in court. More importantly, it appears so will Donald Trump. And there is no question as to who will fair the worse.
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Shocking to see that Deep-state McCabe improperly disclosed the ongoing investigation into the Clintons, thereby giving Republicans one of their biggest continuing talking points about Hillary.
I guess the Deep State is in Trump's corner, after all.
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He still lied and as a top FBI dog he should know better. Lying to FBI = jail time... unless you are the FBI apparently.
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I will let the authorities and legal system sort out what McCabe did ot did not do and the legality of all of it.
Nothing McCabe did or said however would seem to have any bearing on Trump's activities. Just another case of Trump saying, "Look Fire!!" to distract from his own troubles
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FBI leadership was politicized and corrupted under the Obama administration. Comey, Mueller, McCabe are all part of the leadership that worked to get Hillary elected and to defeat Trump. Mueller currently is more focused on concealing the corruption under his reign as Director of the FBI as well as under his successor, Comey.
Mueller has found that associates of Trump appear to be guilty of crimes and is attempting to use that information to coerce them into making up lies about Trump. Every new leaked revelation from the Mueller investigation is further and further away from Russian interference in the election. Flynn, one of the first to fall, told the same "lies" to Trump and Pence that he told to the FBI. He is "guilty" of failing to timely register as an agent of Hungary for work he did for a British company touting Hungarian products.
Meanwhile, John Podesta, Hillary's campaign manager was acting as an agent of pro-Russian Ukrainians and lobbying for the repeal of the Maginsky Act.
You can't make this stuff up.
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Thank you! Finally a reasonable person that wants to let the legal process play out!
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If McCabe were willing to lie to the FBI to protect bad Clinton press, what makes you think he was incapable of burying the investigation into the emails, or filing a misleading FISA application?
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Exactly when does Andy McCabe get to defend himself? In any other area of employment, he could bring an action for wrongful termination! I hope he does.
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He can certainly bring an action for wrongful termination by the FBI. Of course, that would open him up to civil discovery -- I'm betting he doesn't.
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Under Civil Service rules, he is entitled to appeal the decision to fire him, and he has probably initiated such action. If successful, he will get his pension retroactively instead of having to wait seven years and get a lesser amount. That activity, under employee privacy rules, will be conducted in secret. The NYT has not reported that, despite it being public knowledge, because it doesn't fit their narrative!
If what is being reported here is true, he will also have the opportunity to publically defend himself in his criminal trial.
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His attorney’s response to Trump’s outrageous tweets was, “Stay tuned.” Good advice.
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I'm sure some find it pleasing that McCabe and so many other powerful men and women in Washington D.C. are proving to have lied and misled, covered up and hidden (or tried to) their actions from discovery.
Winning has, on a wide-spread scale trumped everything - honor, integrity, service, morals - and we seem to be under the thumb of those we would least wish to govern.
There is an election ahead and I hope we can send men and women to govern who will carefully chose who they do and don't associate with.
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Can't two things be true at the same time? The Clinton Foundation was little more than a quasi-legal graft funnel for the Clintons. Also the Trump Organization is a criminal enterprise that has intertwined with White House. I don't understand how this is an either/or based on one's politics.
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Good point, this might be the case of two evils. Lord help the USA.
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If you are known to be dirty the only way to make yourself look "better" is to paint others with the same brush.
However, the timing of the firing looks remarkably premeditated and vicious: Snatching away his pension with only a few hours to go? It was like watching a cat play with a mouse, letting it almost escape before clawing it back.
It has the appearance of deliberate evil, and that makes it extremely suspect.
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Erik: Another false equivalent. The Clintons not only have not benefited financially from the Clinton Foundation, they have donated millions of dollars to the foundation. The Clinton Foundation has saved and improved the lives of millions of people all over the world. The right-wing propaganda machine has spent years trying to discredit the foundation. Unfortunately, some people exposed to the propaganda have been convinced that the lies are fact.
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As a former DOJ Main Justice Criminal Division prosecutor: the report makes a convincing case that McCabe lied to the U.S. government - and then lied further when he realized his initial lies had been discovered by the investigators. Unfortunately, self-serving individuals who maneuver behind the scenes to advance their personal interests - but who publicly paint themselves in the coat of being dedicated public servants - regularly climb the FBI HQ and Main Justice bureaucracy. McCabe comes off as one such individual in spades. Justice (both as an institution and as a concept) would be served by a grand jury indictment of McCabe for violations of 18 U.S.C. sec. 1001 - of which there is ample evidence in the report.
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Interesting, while I can claim comparable Canadian "credentials" (retired), after five thorough readings and note takings, I'd be prepared to launch a defence. What strikes me is an overwhelming sense of people asking questions/people answering questions but not with a meeting of minds of the exact subject matter under discussion. It near brings to mind the lines from My Cousin Vinny.."I shot the clerk?".....Deputy reading from his notes, he said: "I shot the clerk.".
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I can think of one other one off the top of my head today.
"...self serving individuals who maneuver behind the scenes to advance their personal interests - but who publicly paint themselves in the coat of being dedicated public servants..." is an apt description of Donald Trump, the president of the United States. And you are worried about an alleged transgression of a former underling at the Justice Department???
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Another diversion tactic to take our attention away from the Comey interview. It's no accident that this report was released today. I don't believe in coincidence and neither should you regardless of McCabe's innocence or guilt. Don't take your eye off the ball.
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Yes, the critical Comey tv interview where he prescreens questions from Dem lover Stephanopolous. That will be very revealing. When Comey shows up to testify again in front of Congress, it would be meaningful.
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It seems like a conspiracy theory to believe that the Obama appointed AG released his widely expect report today to forestall a hot air book nobody cares about.
There's no innocent bystander here. All the current players have failed to lead with integrity and that is a sad day for our Democratic Republic
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So given his lack of candor and retention of details, he's eligible to be the Attorney General?
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Sorry McCabe defenders -- the report is now out and condemns McCabe. You can't laud the DOJ for conducting a no-knock raid on Cohen's office and at the same time portray the McCabe report as politically motivated (as McCabe has desperately tried to suggest). Wow.
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The FBI conducted the no-knock raid, not the DOJ. Get your facts straight.
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Yup, I think you're right. Let's assume the DOJ is acting professionally in both cases, and see what falls out.
As we are learning, our democracy is actually pretty resilient, even when under attack from those in the highest offices.
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CNM, The AG Jeff Sessions is behind the report. That is not a problem for you? Hpw can that "report" NOT be politically motivated?
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What a surprise: the DOJ submits a report attempting to corroborate Trump's narrative about a former FBI deputy director that Trump fired. Everything and everyone in this administration is corrupt and self-serving. I guess in a way the Tea Party and Republicans win, because I have always had faith in our institutions but NOW I don't trust the government one inch and in this adminstration less government would be safer for all of us. GOP-Libertarian anti-government rancor has poisoned everything and I don't know if we can ever completely recover.
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Just go to the facts. All of those who authored the report are Obama people.... If they're corrupt, it must have started in the Obama administration. Why would you trust any group that will not issue subpoenas in an investigation into a known action that was a crime, yet will raid the office of the president's attorney with no real explanation of a crime. There is without question a different set of rules for Democrats and Republicans. If the Democrats can't win an election at the ballot box, they will try to steal it in the jury box. Just as with the Russian government, Democrats believe the only time the law applies is when it's applied to their enemies. The DOJ and FBI are all high percentage Democrats, as well as many never Trumpers.
What ends will the Democrats not go to in order to end the presidency of the second worst possible candidate for the office because he beat the worst candidate for the office?
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Both the current and the previous Republic Administrations were not elected legitimately. Bush was installed by a 5-4 vote on 12/12/2000 after his brother culled more than 84,000 mostly Democrat voters from the voting rolls in Florida in August and September 2000. Trump had Director Comey and the Russians working for him and he still lost by 2,850,000 votes. He managed to win 3 States Electoral College Voters by less than 80,000 votes. But do go on about “What ends will the Democrats not go to in order to ” ....
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Horowitz - he don't know who did give instructions? how convenient. where is the full report? why a partial report today? ha ha
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Frankly any report coming from the Justice Department with Sessions at the helm is suspect.
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sessions at the helm of obams dept
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I thought libs just LOVED Sessions since he's letting Mueller conduct his
investigation in Trump collusion - remember the russia collusion thing that is totally fake and nothing has been found in over a year of trying?
Hah!
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Sessions is too terrified of obstructing justice -- especially since he can see that axe falling on Trump's neck.
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The evidence is now showing that Mr. Comey was running the FBI as wing of the Hillary Clinton campaign. Mr. McCabe did as he was told. Indeed, Mr. Comey admitted as such in a recent interview and conceded that the former Attorney General Lynch was a co-conspirator in this political intervention into an election by the Obama administration. And, I was worried about the Russians?.
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and yet all serious studies of the last election conclude that if there was any one factor that swung the election to Trump, it was Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation. Curiously inept, wouldn't you say?
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If Comey was “running the FBI as wing of the Hillary Clinton campaign “ we would have President HR Clinton. We would be a lot safer, not at odds with our allies, nor on the brink of a recession. Nor would HRC be engaged in a my nuke is bigger than your nuke contest.
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Take of your rose colored glasses.
The so called President was not elected by a majority of the people, did not have a large inauguration crowd, lies everyday about all things large and small, surrounded himself with people have already plead guilty and/or are indicted, lied about sleeping with playboy models and porn actresses while and immediately after his wife was pregnant, knows nothing in detail about anything of importance, and certainly has no claim to any integrity, professionalism that are the defining characteristics of a leader and a president. He is a human abomination in a chaos mode under siege.
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