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President Trump is besieged by internal leaks as he tries to weather the fallout from his firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Media reports about the run-up to Trumps decision paint him as isolated and consumed by anger and paranoia, prompting questions from Trump allies about whose interests these government officials had in mind when they spoke to the press.
The behind-the-scenes stories have often undermined the White Houses public reasoning for firing Comey, causing further political trouble for the administration and exacerbating growing divisions between Trump and his law enforcement agencies.
And Trumps abrupt firing of Comey appears to have stirred opposition from the former FBI directors loyalists, who are pushing back on the administration's claims in the press.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333031-trumps-comey-firing-sets-off-new-round-of-leaks
spanone
(135,841 posts)barbtries
(28,798 posts)who are tattling on the crazy president are people who care about the country. or they may just be taking bribes and saying whatever...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)"Matt Drudge, who runs the enormously influential conservative aggregation website Drudge Report."
Yo Mamma, that's sweet and generous. Now me, I tend to believe these are mostly people of poor-to-rotten character and judgement or they would not be there. These people are already realizing that they could have very serious legal problems and that they should have taken the advice all must have received.
A huge problem for this administration, and our nation, is that by far most good, competent conservatives have refused to have anything to do with it. This isn't new, just a huge acceleration of a pattern that has been growing on the right over the past 30 years of good people staying away as the environment representatives and other officials must conform to has become increasingly corrupt and and the ideology they must serve to be allowed to remain in office increasingly extreme.
Initech
(100,079 posts)Thank you I'm here all week!