We need to talk about Donald – the Nightmare continues

[pErvinalia]

He's started tweeting again. Called Comey "cowardly".

[Brian Peacock]

Senators sound calls to release Comey 'tapes' as Trump attacks 'cowardly' leak

Congressmen urge White House to release alleged recordings, as pressure grows for Jeff Sessions to appear publicly for Senate intelligence committee hearing

Days after James Comey’s blockbuster testimony, both Republicans and Democrats on Sunday called for the White House to release any tapes that may exist of a private conversation between the former FBI director and the president.

Republican senator Susan Collins said she would support a subpoena to the White House to release any alleged tapes as Donald Trump launched new attacks on the fired FBI boss, saying he believed he was behind further leaks to the media.

There were also growing calls for the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to appear in public when he goes in front of the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday, as it investigates Russian meddling in the presidential election. It is not yet clear if the hearing will be closed or open.

Speaking about suggestions that there may be tapes of Trump and Comey’s disputed conversations relating to Russia, Collins said on CNN’s State of the Union: “I would be fine with issuing a subpoena. But that most likely would come from the special counsel’s office.”

She said she hoped the president would release the tapes “voluntarily”.

Trump and his aides have dodged questions about whether conversations relevant to the Russia investigation have been recorded. Pressed on the issue Friday, Trump said: “I’ll tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future.”

Democrat and Senate judiciary committee ranking member Senator Dianne Feinstein also pressed for release of tapes, as did Democratic senator, Chuck Schumer, who told CBS’s Face the Nation: “If there are tapes – [Trump] alluded to the fact there are tapes maybe as a threat or taunting Comey – he should make that public right away.”

James Lankford, a Republican senator, also a member of that committee, agreed the panel needed to hear any tapes that exist. “We’ve obviously pressed the White House,” he said.

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Schumer called for Sessions to appear in public. He said: “There is very little that is classified. Anything that is classified, they can do in a separate classified briefing.

“There are some questions about Sessions that have to be asked. First, did he interfere with the Russian investigation before he recused himself? Second, what safeguards are there now so that he doesn’t interfere? Third, it says he was involved in the firing of Comey, and the president said Comey was fired because of Russia. How does that fit into with recusal?”

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Republican senator Lindsey Graham, a frequent critic of the president, called conversations between Comey and Trump “inappropriate”, and “frustrating”, because the investigation may have otherwise helped exonerate Trump.

“You may be the first president in history to go down because you can’t stop inappropriately talking about an investigation that if you just were quiet, would clear you,” said Graham. ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... tapes-leak

[Brian Peacock]

Trump’s lawyer Marc Kasowitz accusing Comey of “unilaterally and surreptitiously” making “unauthorised disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the president”.

Check your privilege Donald.

[pErvinalia]

Not surprised that Donald has found a lawyer who lies as well as him.

[Scot Dutchy]

I wonder if Trump is paying him.

[tattuchu]

Not surprised that Donald has found a lawyer who lies as well as him.

I'm getting dizzy from all the spinning he's doing!

[Scot Dutchy]

I see Melanoma and Barron have moved to the white house. She says she will try to stop him tweeting. Good luck with that lady.

[tattuchu]

I see Melanoma and Barron have moved to the white house. She says she will try to stop him tweeting. Good luck with that lady.

Interesting. This is the first I've heard of this. You'd think that'd be all over the news here

[pErvinalia]

Fake news.

[Alan B]

I did see a few days ago some commentator (was it a Senator?) suggesting that the FBI and other governmental services should be separated from Presidential and Party influence & control as with the UK and some other countries.

Although those systems in those countries are not perfect, such an arrangement could stop a lot of the crappery that the rest of the world sees going on in the US at the moment.

With a permanent non-Party aligned Civil Service, the President Elect wouldn't need to wait three months to take office.

[Tero]

Trump wanted to fuck a Mexican. Did not threaten to send her home as he was not POTUS then.
http://people.com/celebrity/salma-hayek ... boyfriend/

[Forty Two]

Trump wanted to fuck a Mexican. Did not threaten to send her home as he was not POTUS then.
http://people.com/celebrity/salma-hayek ... boyfriend/

I don't see how any heterosexual male can be faulted for wanting take a tumble with Salma Hayek. Criticize Trump all you want, but a little reason, please...

[Forty Two]

The world is going to be a boring place when he is gone (either by impeachment or losing the next election).

He will have to be impeached. His Russian friends will make sure he wins the next election.

LOL, the Russians own the elections now. When Bush was President, at least the conspiracy theory was that the Republicans themselves owned the voting machines and that they could guarantee they could win. I guess after the black guy won, twice, despite the evil, racist Republican owned "Deibold" machines and the way Republicans structured ballots to make Democrats vote for the wrong guy, we have to believe some other entity owns the voting booths. Until, of course, the Democrats win again, in which case the election will have been free and fair and valid, because election and voting fraud is a myth.

There is, of course, on the one hand, no evidence whatsoever of voter fraud, which means all votes cast are valid and cast by the person who wanted to vote and who was legally allowed to vote. At most, a negligible, insignificant number of errors occur and a handful of bad guys vote the wrong ways when they shouldn't. But, when thinking about Trump, the election was actually rigged by the Russians. No voter fraud exists, except the voter fraud committed by the Russians, which successfully turned the election.

[Hermit]

the Russians own the elections now. ... the election was actually rigged by the Russians. No voter fraud exists, except the voter fraud committed by the Russians, which successfully turned the election.

Correct. And here's the proof:

[tattuchu]