Trump walked out on meeting with Fox's Jeanine Pirro as she ranted about Hillary and Comey: report

[DonViejo]

Trump walked out on meeting with Fox’s Judge Jeanine Pirro as she ranted about Hillary and Comey: report

TOM BOGGIONI
09 DEC 2017 AT 15:09 ET

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The Times reports that Pirro — known as Judge Jeanine on her Fox News show — asked to meet with Trump in early November to discuss her obsession with former Hillary Clinton’s supposed approval to sell uranium to the Russians.

With Chief of Staff John Kelly and White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II in attendance, Pirro — who once ran against Clinton for a U.S. Senate seat representing New York — attacked special counsel Robert Mueller and accused former FBI director James B. Comey of “employing tactics typically reserved for Mafia cases,” claims a White House insider briefed on the meeting.

The report states that Trump became upset when Pirro decried hardball legal tactics, reminding her that hard-charging McCarthy-era attorney Roy Cohn was once his mentor who might serve him well now as one of his defenders.

The White House source reports that at one point in the meeting, Kelly grew weary with Pirro’s rant, with the White House Chief of Staff interrupting her to tell her she was “not helping things.”

The report notes that Trump “eventually tired of Ms. Pirro’s screed,” and walked out on her.

You can read the whole report here.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/trump-walked-out-on-meeting-with-foxs-judge-jeanine-pirro-as-she-ranted-about-hillary-and-comey-report/

[oberliner]

1. Raw Story steals article from NY Times and puts its own writer's name on the byline

[DonViejo]

2. RawStory isn't the only publication that does that type reporting...

TalkingPoints Memo, Yahoo, The Hill, Newsweek and any number of publications do it. Wait until tomorrow, when the Sunday Magazine is actually published, by Monday news sites will be loaded with stories lifted from this very large piece by the Times.

[oberliner]

3. Why not just post the NY Times article?

That's the site that deserves the traffic since they did the actual reporting.

[DonViejo]

5. It's already been posted earlier today, I didn't want to duplicate it. Further, not every...

DU'er has access to the NYT, paywalls and things like that.

Here's The Hill's article:

Trump walked out on meeting with Judge Jeanine: report
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/364118-trump-walked-out-on-meeting-with-judge-jeanine-report

The first of what will be a flood of them shortly.

[secondwind]

4. He really thinks that Roy Cohn will save his ass?

[tandem5]

6. I think a lot of people assume the likes of Pirro are simply Trump surrogates, but

you have to look at it from another perspective. Russia is a big player, but just that, a player of much larger criminal network. Russia has utilized this network to advance its own interest, but they have heavily overtaxed it and risk its destruction by exposing elements that don't want to be seen. It's akin to banks gaming the financial system and then walking away after they have collapsed everything when they could have just tempered their actions and made the corruption sustainable.

The smaller elements are starting to grasp the concept of "no honor among thieves," as they appeal in vain to "shut things down" and stop rocking the boat. We are going to see a lot more seemingly random people come out of the woodwork adopting vehement points as to why Mueller should be stopped. They have a personal, unseen stake and they don't want to be left holding the bag. Look no further than Nunes jumping out of cars in the middle of the night and making nonsensical cases of unmasking or Pat Robertson trying painfully to read through technical legal justifications for Mueller's termination.

[winstars]

7. HA!!! Hey Jeanine!!! When you lose brain dead Resident tRump, you really have lost the plot...

[JI7]

8. Kelly and Comey are/were friends. I'd this happened it's probably because Kelly didn't like attacks