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"A presidency of one: Key federal agencies increasingly compelled to benefit Trump
By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-presidency-of-one-key-federal-agencies-increasingly-compelled-to-benefit-trump/2019/10/01/f80740ec-e453-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html
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As the impeachment drama has unfolded over the past week, a series of disclosures has illuminated President Trumps command over key federal agencies, revealing how he has compelled them to pursue his personal and political goals, investigate his enemies and lend legitimacy to his theories about the 2016 election.
The Justice Department has prioritized a probe that the president hopes will discredit a finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help him win. As part of that effort, Attorney General William P. Barr has met overseaswith foreign intelligence officials to enlist their aid in investigating the investigators, as the rights rallying cry goes, and dig into the presidents suspicions.
The State Department, meanwhile, has been investigating the email records of as many as 130 current and former department officials who sent messages to the private email account of Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and Trumps 2016 opponent. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defied Congress on Tuesday by attempting to block the depositions of five department employees called to testify in the impeachment inquiry.
........ (dirt on Biden and his son)
In each of these instances, the president or administration officials have strongly defended their conduct as proper and above board.
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NCLefty
(3,678 posts)"Lie for him or you're out."
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)that's come before him. Such a sniveling little lightweight loser assclown.
And BTW, go ahead and dig up those emails of Hillary's, they've ALL BEEN SEEN BEFORE you pathological fuckwit.
The only ones that were deleted were the PERSONAL ONES (which she was specifically told by the Archivist were fine to delete, let me add), and if there was ANYTHING untoward in the professional ones (that have, again, ALL BEEN SEEN BEFORE), Repukes would've made hay of them back in 2016.
YOU GOT NOTHING, YOU IGNORANT ORANGE FUCKFACE LOSER.