Well, now we have the first indication that Trump fired Comey to impede the "Russia" probe

[usmbguest5318]

Maybe I'm wrong about this, but if Trump was innocent, there would be no pressure.

That's just my opinion, though.

Yes, you're wrong about that. Political pressure doesn't necessarily have anything to do with one's having done something right or wrong. Legal pressure does to an extent; however, one can pretty well cooperate with a legal inquiry if one has done nothing wrong, but the pressure, aka risk that one must nonetheless in court defend one's innocence, is still there until the inquiry is completed and one is not charged with a crime. The pressure Trump faces (faced) was both legal and political, and for POTUSes, one overlaps with and begets the other.

I fail to see how firing Comey took any pressure off of anything. If anything, it did the opposite of that. I know if I was in that situation, I'd feel no pressure and would fully comply without acting suspicious and defensive.

I fail to see how firing Comey took any pressure off of anything.

As well you, yay anyone of sound mind, should fail to see how that'd be among the outcomes of Trump's having fired Comey. And yet, Donald Trump did not fail to see that. On the contrary, he attested to that being an explicit outcome he expected and viewed as achieved by dint of his having fired Comey.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Trump Told the Russians That 'Nut Job' Comey's Firing Relieved 'Great Pressure'

Well, it's not as if prudent individuals actually thought Trump did not intend to interdict the investigation into "Russia." Now, however, we know that is precisely the reason he fired him.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump reportedly said. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”
-- Donald Trump speaking to Russian leaders the day after firing Comey​

The case for Trump obstructing justice just got easier to make and prove.

Yet another made up story. You people must have loved fairy tales as children.

 

[2aguy]

Trump Told the Russians That 'Nut Job' Comey's Firing Relieved 'Great Pressure'

Well, it's not as if prudent individuals actually thought Trump did not intend to interdict the investigation into "Russia." Now, however, we know that is precisely the reason he fired him.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump reportedly said. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”
-- Donald Trump speaking to Russian leaders the day after firing Comey​

The case for Trump obstructing justice just got easier to make and prove.

And no...you are wrong........but you left wingers have Trump derangement syndrome and will pin your hopes on any little crap the democrats press throws to you from their bucket of chum.....

 

[usmbguest5318]

You know, Xelor, we should not be getting the transcripts of these conversations. I know it's entertaining and all, but it could go to the investigating committees behind closed doors and still be helpful in determining Trump's role without laying bare every damned utterance the man makes to a foreign official. At some point, foreign officials are going to start shunning the WH and even having conversations with Trump, just because of the blabbing we've got going on over here.
I know people want to get Trump. Let the investigators get him. This to me is unseemly.

At some point, foreign officials are going to start shunning the WH

I suspect we may well already be at that point. The only question in my mind is whether foreign officials and leaders openly attest to being of that mind or whether they take a more subtle approach to doing so.

I suspect too that bookmakers are taking wagers on which past president's term in office Trump will surpass..

LOL. If you "suspect" that, I'm sure it's true.

As we get deeper into this feeding frenzy, the taste and smell of blood is growing stronger every day, will someone please pull their head up long enough to remember that this is our country we are talking about and he is our President and we can't snap our fingers and make him be gone. So what we attack him on should be well thought out and worth the humiliation it brings on all of us.

LOL. If you "suspect" that, I'm sure it's true.

TY for your confidence in me. LOL

he is our President and we can't snap our fingers and make him be gone.

The revelation about Trump's intent has made the possibility of "snap" and Trump is gone a much more likely possibility.

what we attack him on should be well thought out and worth the humiliation it brings on all of us.

The time for thinking about that was early November 2016, and we know how much people cared about the possibility this sort of thing would result from electing Trump. It's not as though there were not plenty of people -- both liberal and conservative -- admonishing the public of the man's ineptitude, inanity, callousness, etc., etc., etc.

• Former Reagan/Bush Ambassador Calls Trump Incompetent As Republicans Flock To Clinton
  
• George HW Bush will vote for Hillary Clinton, sources say - CNNPolitics.com
  
• Donald Trump -- Conservatives Should Stand against Him | National Review
  
• The Conservative Case Against Trump
• A list of Republicans opposing Donald Trump (and some who are voting for Clinton)

 

[OnePercenter]

Trump Told the Russians That 'Nut Job' Comey's Firing Relieved 'Great Pressure'

Well, it's not as if prudent individuals actually thought Trump did not intend to interdict the investigation into "Russia." Now, however, we know that is precisely the reason he fired him.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump reportedly said. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”
-- Donald Trump speaking to Russian leaders the day after firing Comey​

The case for Trump obstructing justice just got easier to make and prove.

Comey is a nut job! He hides behind curtains, the guy has screws loose.

The world and country has more respect for Comey than the lunatic running this asylum.

Sure they do. Democrats were calling him incompetent and wanted him fired months ago. Make up your minds.

Then Trump should have fired him in January, NOT after the Russia probe started.

 

[2aguy]

I suspect the foreign leaders with whom Trump will meet over the next nine days will not likely collaborate on much of anything for it's become more likely that he won't long be the POTUS.

Wow...you really are dumb......after 8 years, President Trump will pardon Hilary and let her out of prison for reasons of compassion.......just before he leaves office....and just before President Pence is sworn into office.....

 

[Theowl32]

Colbert: Trump fired Comey!!

Liberal moronic audience: Yaaaaay!!!

Colbert: No! You are suppose to BOOOOO!!!!

Liberal moronic audience: BOOOOO!!!!!

 

[usmbguest5318]

Trump Told the Russians That 'Nut Job' Comey's Firing Relieved 'Great Pressure'

Well, it's not as if prudent individuals actually thought Trump did not intend to interdict the investigation into "Russia." Now, however, we know that is precisely the reason he fired him.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump reportedly said. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”
-- Donald Trump speaking to Russian leaders the day after firing Comey​

The case for Trump obstructing justice just got easier to make and prove.

Comey is a nut job! He hides behind curtains, the guy has screws loose.

The world and country has more respect for Comey than the lunatic running this asylum.

Sure they do. Democrats were calling him incompetent and wanted him fired months ago. Make up your minds.

Then Trump should have fired him in January, NOT after the Russia probe started.

The "Russia" probe began in 2016.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Trump Told the Russians That 'Nut Job' Comey's Firing Relieved 'Great Pressure'

Well, it's not as if prudent individuals actually thought Trump did not intend to interdict the investigation into "Russia." Now, however, we know that is precisely the reason he fired him.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump reportedly said. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”
-- Donald Trump speaking to Russian leaders the day after firing Comey​

The case for Trump obstructing justice just got easier to make and prove.

 

[Zorro!]

Trump Told the Russians That 'Nut Job' Comey's Firing Relieved 'Great Pressure'

Well, it's not as if prudent individuals actually thought Trump did not intend to interdict the investigation into "Russia." Now, however, we know that is precisely the reason he fired him.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump reportedly said. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”
-- Donald Trump speaking to Russian leaders the day after firing Comey​

The case for Trump obstructing justice just got easier to make and prove.

Clearly Trump was right to fire Comey.

Comey Stalking a Half-Popped Kernel of a Deep-State Conspiracy.

In a recent baffling curiosity, the name “Comey” – as in former FBI Director James B. Comey -- didn’t appear once in the 476 pages of the report released Dec. 9 on the FBI’s abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. There are many references to the former FBI director in it. But search for “Comey” and your computer tells you there is no such word in the document. By contrast, search for “Corney” and you get nearly 150 results – results that all look like “Comey.” What gives?

There are 23,851 “m’s” and found the only ones represented as “rn” were those in “Comey.” Also, there are some 2,000 instances of “rn” in the document but only in Corney/Comey is the “rn” combination mistaken for an “m” by optical character recognition. A computer reading the Horowitz report has no trouble making out “r” and “n” without confusing the two together as an “m”: attorney, government, concerned, international, and earnest.

In an amazing coincidence of fortuitous circumstance, James Comey is shielded from key-word searches.

But now that this discussion has hit the posting boards, the document has been changed. The Comey/Corney effect has disappeared.

When the report was initially released two weeks ago, it was dated, at the bottom of the cover page, “December 2019.” It now reads “December 2019 (Revised).” The revisions are listed on a new page before the Executive Summary. They are mostly persnickety, minute changes meant to make the document, very strictly speaking, correct. For example, the OIG states, “On pages iv, xvi, 400, and 407, we changed the phrase “before and after” to “both during and after the time.” On some four different pages the OIG changed the solid “had no discussion” to a squishy “did not recall any discussion or mention.” And if you check page 370, you’ll find that “assertion” has been replaced with “statement.”

https://www.realclearinvestigations...f_a_deep-state_kerning_conspiracy_121746.html

 

[JWBooth]

Trump Told the Russians That 'Nut Job' Comey's Firing Relieved 'Great Pressure'

Well, it's not as if prudent individuals actually thought Trump did not intend to interdict the investigation into "Russia." Now, however, we know that is precisely the reason he fired him.

“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump reportedly said. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”
-- Donald Trump speaking to Russian leaders the day after firing Comey​

The case for Trump obstructing justice just got easier to make and prove.