On Friday, Donald Trump defied the intelligence community, members of his own party, several advisers, and common sense, by releasing the controversial Nunes Memo. Too bad Trump is completely clueless about the consequences he has now created by opening Pandora’s Box.
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Let’s be clear: Claims that Trump released the Nunes Memo to expose wrongdoings inside the FBI and become a national hero are total BS. The truth is that Trump made the Nunes papers public in order to save his own ass. Releasing the memo meant turning on the FBI, however, Trump didn’t care. The fact that someone who is supposedly the President of the United States would sell out his own intelligence agency for personal gain is very Nixon-esque and already being compared to the Saturday Night Massacre that launched the Watergate investigation and Richard Nixon’s eventual demise.
“The interest wasn’t oversight,” Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff said of the decision to release the memo. “The interest was a political hit job on the FBI in the service of the president.”
According to Schiff, Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee refused to interview FBI officials before bulldozing forward and releasing the memo they hope will discredit the investigation of Trump’s Russian ties. Additionally, Trump also hopes the memo will provide him with the necessary political cover to stop the Robert Mueller inquiry in its tracks.
Upon release of the Nunes dossier, speculation is that Donald Trump will use misleading info in the memo to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has jurisdiction over the Robert Mueller investigation into collusion and obstruction of justice charges against “The Donald.” Trump could then name some miscellaneous stooge from within the Justice Department as Rosenstein’s replacement, who would then have the authority (and could take the fall) to fire Robert Mueller — thus ending the investigation that has Trump shaking in his boots and believing that Mueller has enough evidence to run him out of Washington.
On Sunday, Sen. Dick Durbin, the #2 ranking Democrat in the US Senate, said he now believes we are now on the precipice of “a constitutional crisis”.
Paul Rosenzweig, a homeland security official from the George W Bush administration, tweeted that with the release of the Nunes memo, the Republican party is now fully in bed with Donald Trump.
“If you stay in the party you own this,” he wrote.
Is this the beginning of the end for Donald Trump?
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DJ, my good man, your entire post is Spot On. But you’re killing me with the choices you’ve listed to vote for because I agree with choices #1, 2 AND 3. Of course that bogus memo proves (yet again) that that fool is self-serving and only looking to save his own worthless hide. Clearly he’s desperate and hiding something which (if you ask me) is probably worse then ending his sham of a presidency. And yes, it further divides the country and possibly put the lives of FBI officials in harms way. Most troubling is that it was all so predictable. In all of American political history I don’t think there’s ever been a more craven AND dumb president. But he knows he’s got to hang onto his 35% American support by ANY means necessary to try and discredit Mueller’s investigations which Trump knows will reveal the Truth and nothing… Read more »