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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 03:15 PM May 2017

Trump's Comey firing sets off new round of leaks

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 Trump’s 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 House’s public reasoning for firing Comey, causing further political trouble for the administration and exacerbating growing divisions between Trump and his law enforcement agencies.

And Trump’s abrupt firing of Comey appears to have stirred opposition from the former FBI director’s 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

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Trump's Comey firing sets off new round of leaks (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 OP
K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 spanone May 2017 #1
i tend to believe that the leakers barbtries May 2017 #2
"We never got 1 damaging leak out of Obama White House staff in 8 yrs." Hortensis May 2017 #3
And we all know how much Trump loves leaks! Hey o!!!! Initech May 2017 #4

barbtries

(28,798 posts)
2. i tend to believe that the leakers
Fri May 12, 2017, 03:59 PM
May 2017

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)
3. "We never got 1 damaging leak out of Obama White House staff in 8 yrs."
Fri May 12, 2017, 04:34 PM
May 2017

"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.

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