Trump ties revoking Brennan's clearance to the Russia probe

[riversedge]

Source: Politico






08/16/2018 08:56 AM EDT Updated 08/16/2018 10:15 AM EDT


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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump placed blame on Brennan for the ongoing Russia investigation, now overseen by special counsel Robert Mueller, even though Brennan has been outside the government for 19 months.

“I call it the rigged witch hunt, [it] is a sham,” Trump told the Journal. “And these people led it!”

“So I think it’s something that had to be done,” he continued.

Brennan, who served as the CIA director under former President Barack Obama, was among the intelligence officials who met with the president at Trump Tower in the days leading up to his inauguration. Brennan and the other intelligence officials briefed Trump on evidence that the Russian government had sought to interfere in the 2016 election.


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The revocation of Brennan’s security clearance was first announced Wednesday by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who did not mention the Russia probe among her justifications for the president’s decision...........................................

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/16/trump-brennan-security-clearance-russia-779550

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It just "had to be done"!! says Trump's bruised ego.



“I call it the rigged witch hunt, [it] is a sham,” President Donald Trump told the Journal. “And these people led it!” | Chris Kleponis/Getty

[ffr]

1. Ruh-roh! That's the definition of Obstruction of Justice

Going after anyone with any ties to an ongoing investigation of you.

[paleotn]

2. Obstruction.

[MontanaMama]

3. Obstruction.

When in the hell will enough be enough?

[rurallib]

10. there's going to be so many links in that obstruction chain

that all the king's horses and all the king's men could never find the end.

[Botany]

4. ATTN Bob Mueller

Trump has now fired, forced to resign, and or pulled the security clearance for verybody who was @ the January 2017 meeting w/ him .... 2 weeks before his inauguration... that told him that Russia fucked with our elections to make him POTUS.

Lock em up

[cstanleytech]

5. Also the Repugnants in Congress should be considered conspirators for refusal to

hold the President responsible.

[Botany]

7. simple question how did McConnell know that by blocking Garland for the SOTUS ....

... he would have another choice after the election?

[rurallib]

11. Yep - a question I have been asking

being from Iowa I am especially curious how Grassley thought he could sit on the nomination nd get away with it.
He could do so only if there was a repug pres and a rep senate.

[Botany]

13. I wonder just how big this conspiracy really is?

In the 1950s we executed 2 people for selling out our country to the Soviet Union... this is even worse. The USSR would have gotten a bomb regardless because we don't own math or science but to sell out our nation to Vladimir Putin... wtf?

[rurallib]

14. my guess is that every Repug in congress knew something about it

enough to not act like it was anything big when news that the election had been hacked by Russia came out.

Had they not known my guess is that most of them would have acted with surprise and indignation that an enemy had messed in our election. Yet as the story came out they were cool and followed pretty much followed an apparently proscribed script of what to say and do.

[Initech]

6. God he's such a worthless fucking piece of shit.

[Racerdog1]

9. This bastard is an insult to shit.

I give shit more respect than this orange fuck wad.

[CanonRay]

8. Clear abuse of power

and clearly impeachable if there were any Republicans with chutzpah, which there are not.

[aggiesal]

12. Here's more rope! n/t