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President Donald Trump is reportedly planning on declassifying Carter Page and Bruce Ohr documents, according to an Axios report on Sunday.
Axios Jonathan Swan and Lauren Meier report:
President Trump is expected to declassify, as early as this week, documents covering the U.S. governments surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the investigative activities of senior Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr, according to allies of the president.
Both Congressional Republicans and Trump himself have been hyping the documents as damning evidence that the Department of Justice and FBI acted inappropriately, essentially tainting the Trump-Russia investigation.
Ohr has been accused by the Congressional Republicans and Trump of acting as a go-between for Justice Department, British spy Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS.
Page was allegedly the victim of illegal spying by the Obama administration aimed at taking down Trump.
House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows told Axios that the declassification is a big deal.
After two years of investigations and accusations from both sides of the aisle about what documents indicate, it is past time for documents to be declassified and let the American people decide for themselves if DoJ and FBI acted properly, he said.
It is unclear how much, at this point, the claims made about Ohr and Page will be supported in the documents.
https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/trump-reportedly-planning-on-declassifying-bruce-ohr-and-carter-page-documents/
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(28,136 posts)john657
(1,058 posts)My take is that this is a tactic to distract from the Kavanaugh confirmation and Trumps legal and ethical problems.
I guess, in a sense, it's an attempt to obstruct, but that's a reach.
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(28,136 posts)john657
(1,058 posts)would like to know if, on top of all the other corruption in this Administration, there was corruption in the DOJ and the FBI, as all Americans should know.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)but in Trump's diseased mind, he probably thinks it will take the heat off of him and Kavanaugh.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)I so wish we get more indictments soon.
john657
(1,058 posts)just not soon enough for me, or for that matter, the country.
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AncientGeezer
(2,146 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)This is so fucking bad
jfc
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)These documents shouldnt do anything for him, and if none of it is a matter of national security, I dont see why releasing the information to the public should be a problem.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)Steven Miller as communications director of the Trump campaign said Page never workedbforbthecTrump campaign. Period. Trump said that he never met Carter Page, that he never spoke to Carter Page. So why does it matter if four judges each selected by chief Justice Roberts, each appointed by a Republican president approved a wire tap on his phone?
Cicada
(4,533 posts)Most Trump has attacked by namemin tweets on DOJ and fbi share this: they are experts on Russian mob activities in the US including how they launder money here. Trump warned if you go after my money you will cross red line. Disproportionate money from Russia. Other brother said we dont need American banks now, we have Russian funding. Trump partner in Trump Soho 8 years earlier convicted in Russian mob stock swindle. He is son of an under boss of Semion Megilivitch, the boss of bosses living openly with Putin support in Moscow. He is the manager of Trump Soho, trump partner. Just 8 years after conviction of role in swindle run by Semion
Mogilivitch.
Bruce Ohr was in charge of getting Semion Mogilivitch until his open residence in Moscow made us realize he had Putin support so we can never get him.