It’s on
Thug Donald says hell yes release the memo, the memo is out.
The House Intelligence Committee made the memo public after a week of pleading from senior national security officials not to disclose the classified details, reading it aloud on a conference call with reporters after President Trump declassified the memo.
“A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that,” Mr. Trump said on Friday.
The memo alleges that senior government officials favored Democrats over Republicans and accuses federal law enforcement officials of abusing their authorities when they sought permission to surveil a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page.
Never mind the fact that Carter Page was already dirty, independently of Trump; that he had been under FBI surveillance before the Trump gang ever approached him.
Earlier on Friday, Mr. Trump said top officials and investigators at the F.B.I. and Justice Department have “politicized the sacred investigative process.”
I wish a bunch of people would pin him down and shovel dirt into his mouth.
The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans – something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2018
The early-morning Twitter post reinforced reports that Mr. Trump, in allowing the Republican memo to be released, is seeking to clean house in the upper ranks of the F.B.I. and the Justice Department, even at the risk of losing his own F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray.
No, not “clean house” – Trump is seeking to replace people in the upper ranks of the FBI with people who are loyal to him. That’s it, that’s his only goal: transforming the FBI into an arm of Donald Trump the ManGod.
Earlier this week, The F.B.I. made an unusual public plea not to release the document, which could reveal classified sources and methods. Mr. Trump declassified the memo without requesting any redactions.
In other words he acted as recklessly and self-absorbedly as he always does.
Constitutional crisis in full flow.
Updating to add:
The Times has the memo plus a few annotations.
It reads like a Fox News rant.
One particular absurdity or blind spot, on page 5 – Nunes calls it “bias” that Steele was desperate for Trump not to be elected, as if it were purely “partisan” and a matter of party loyalty. The media often assume that too. It’s grotesque to assume that about Trump because before he is any kind of political he is an appalling human being – he’s a shame and disgrace to us all. His policies do suck, but if they were brilliant he would only taint them with his own moral stench.
I cannot accept the fact the ManGod actually read this document. I’m dyslexic and I can hardly glance at the first sentence without falling into dream.
I am sure it will be summarized and re-summarized in 140 characters in the following weeks.
If you’re not against having an out of control psychopath as president, you shouldn’t be in the national security business..
Thanks, Stewart.
It’s safe to say I hate politics, but I dislike the tribalism of Trump more and the vapid minions who lap at his feet.
Trump: “…..top Leadership and Investigators* at the F.B.I. and Justice Department have “politicized the sacred investigative process…..”
Trump to Comey: “Do I have your loyalty? No? You’re fired!”
Trump to McCabe: “Are you on my team? No? Your wife’s a loser. Somebody fire him!”
Hmmm.
Meant to add:
*Why does he capitalise random words like an 18thC diarist?
Ophelia @1,
Also, the timing and rationale. Having formed an opinion based on evidence is not usually considered “bias.” You can’t complain that the jurors at your trial were all biased against you on the grounds that they all voted that you were guilty. If Steele, as a result of facts he learned while researching and compiling his dossier, concluded that no way in hell should Trump become President, that isn’t bias, that’s just a functioning intellect and moral compass.
As far as I know, there’s no evidence that Christopher Steele had some pre-existing hate for Trump before he began this work. (He may, as an intelligence operative in the Russian theatre, have been aware of some of Trump’s Russian entanglements, but then we’re back to opinions based on evidence.)
@Kevin #5
What’s going on here isn’t even politics and apart from the attempt to destroy what Mueller is doing it’s also a distraction to take attention away from what the Russians want to do to help the GOP in the mid-terms.
Screechy @ 8 – Exactly.
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