Posted on 02/01/2018 7:13:59 PM PST by markomalley
Presidents don’t win fights with the FBI. Donald Trump apparently wants to learn this lesson the hard way.
Most presidents have had the sense not to bully the FBI by defaming its leaders and — ridiculously — painting its agents as leftist political hacks. Most members of Congress have also understood how unwise it would be to pull such stunts. But Trump and his hapless henchmen on Capitol Hill, led by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), have chosen the wrong enemy. History strongly suggests they will be sorry.
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Trump and his minions seem to think they can out-leak the FBI. Obviously they haven’t been paying attention.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I don’t think they’re threatening violence. Their style is more like coercion or blackmail of some kind.
“If indeed the FBI is more powerful than a duly elected president...”
It’s not. Trump has the Marines and 101st Airborne. In a battle, the FBI wouldn’t last 30 minutes.
Yet McCarthy was right, and the libs are not
Who elected the FBI? What contempt for the Constitution!
So yeah, I sort of have a dislike for the FBI.
The WaPo prints what the WaPo is told to print.
Eugene is a bigger fool than I thought, President Trump pays attention to everything.
Hope you’re right, Jim.
Just feels like this is headin’ toward a real rocky road.
Shapin’ up to be an ‘interesting’ year ahead.
Exactly. As soon as I saw the headline I said this is the WP and its handlers threatening the well being of the president of the united states. I guess they don’t realize that a headline like this is further discrediting the FBI. Fools.
I am not clicking the link. I don’t intentionally click on WP links.
ARREST HIM TOO!
Amen and plus 1
He is Bezo’s token writer.
I bet his articles are written by the DNC.
But he gets the credit and pay checks
I watched every minute of the SOTU and I got misty-eyed watching a REAL LEADER give a great speach! It also made me realize what a bunch of limp dicks we have for leaders here in Oz.
God bless America and God bless President Trump!
The stuck hog squeals the loudest.
If the left, democrat leaders, and the media (I repeat myself) really thought the memo was nothing, a huge mistake that would blow up in the republican’s (especially Trump) faces, they’d be daring them to release it. They’d then prove it was false and laugh all the way to the November election. So one must wonder why the Post (publishers of the Pentagon Papers) is so uncurious about the content of the memo yet so certain that average Americans shouldn’t be allowed to see it.
The Post says “Democracy dies in darkness”, unless President Trump has the flashlight, then they become Kevin Bacon’s ROTC character screaming “ALL IS WELL”, in spite of the events unfolding around them.
A member of the holier than Jesus press is recommending a president buckle to extortion from an agency he oversees?
OR
Is conveying the extortion in the form of a (not) veiled threat?
Jeez Whiz, that’s gotta be one heck of a memo, eh?
Really? So the FBI/DOJ are above reproach, because.... seven ways ‘til Sunday? Then burn it down.
What the H-— Does the Washington ComPost know?...................... Usually what the NYT tells them, and you know the NYT’s record for accurate reporting. They wouldn’t lie, would they?
Bookmark.
Normally it would be a threat but Robinson is just a member of the Democrat cult and he’s panicking hard. They all are.
On the flip side, Hoover, Paul Rico. John Connelly.
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