"Can you believe it! The FBI was investigating the President of the United States...!"

[kentuck]

"Unbelievable!"

This seems to be the Republican reaction to the latest bombshell in the NYTimes.

They were investigating him as a possible asset of the Russian government.

Why? Was it on a whim?

Or was it because they were not sure that Donald Trump had the best interests of our nation at heart?

There was a lot of unexplainable activity with the Russians and they all lied about it?

And there was Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, attempting to set up a secure channel of communication between Russia and the White House without the knowledge of any American intelligence agencies. Not to mention the secret meeting with the Russian oligarch in the Seychelles, led by Erik Prince, brother to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Not to mention the way Trump was helping Putin by tearing down our allies, especially in the NATO Alliance. And the manner in which he was willing to tear down our own government in defending Vladimir Putin.

What was the FBI supposed to do? Ignore it?

How do the Republicans explain this?

[kimbutgar]

1. I just hope there are recordings that are irrefutable and hard for the orange maggot and his

Cretins to deny.

[cynatnite]

2. A counterintelligence investigation isn't your normal criminal investigation...

There are lawyers and judges involved that have to give the go ahead for something like this. They had convincing enough evidence to instigate it.

After hearing this news and watching Active Measures, I'm convinced that tRump agreed to whatever Putin wanted in exchanged for bailing him out of his financial dire straits.

[Hortensis]

3. WHY was he able to become president? HOW was it that

the electorate were not informed?

The answer (an of-course to me) is that to do their duty would have been to cede political control of the nation to the Democratic Party. So they did not. They betrayed their nation instead.

Just one little example: NYT claimed they were asked to rewrite a VERY different story that lied and protected Trump and the Republican Party by "the authorities," presumably the FBI. And the NYT complied, merely a continuance of their systematic campaign to defeat the Democratic Party.

New York Times acknowledges it buried the lead in pre-election Russia-Trump story
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/05/16/new-york-times-acknowledges-it-buried-the-lead-in-pre-election-russia-trump-story/?utm_term=.253edf4f80d7

[RKP5637]

7. The greatest threat/crisis to the US is the GOP! n/t

[Hortensis]

11. Yes. Specifically, the ultra-conservative billionaires who control the GOP,

and the right-wing authoritarians, white nationalists, and Christian dominionists who are inflamed and manipulated into furthering their plots.

Pissant Russia merely helps their efforts along. As do our own anti-Democratic Party leftists, declared Democrat or independent/nonaligned makes no difference.

[mucifer]

12. Don't leave comey out of it. he knew! he didn't give a flying f

[Hortensis]

14. NOT a chance! He belongs in prison, for decades.

A big question, among many, is whether he just woke up one morning and decided for fun to see if he could get away with further, but increasingly blatant betrayal, of his duties. Maybe the prospect of several more years as Director of the FBI bored him?

OR, whether he was conspiring with and pushed into committing career suicide by others who had become increasingly desperate at the prospect of losing national power to the Democrats.

Same for his deputy, McCabe.

[Fuzzpope]

16. .

Trump, kissing Comey on the check at the inauguration party.

Lots of people forget about this moment.

[FirstLight]

4. yeah, their complicit behavior

will come back to bite them in the ass! bastards & traitors all!

[RKP5637]

5. His die-hard base will just ignore it saying it's an FBI conspiracy against a good man.

After all, he is a stable genius!

[spanone]

6. Senator Lindsey Graham said he didn't trust the men at the FBI any further than he can throw them.

K&R...

All Compromised.

[world wide wally]

17. Neither does Putin

[spanone]

18. 👍🏼Kompromat

[malaise]

19. Funny - that's how rational folks think about

Lindsey

[spanone]

20. That's the truth!

[duforsure]

8. trumps routine is always the same

Dismisses it with claiming its all lies, and others are always criminals, and liars, then if that doesn't take hold he then suggests made up crimes, then starts using that he's a victim, and when that doesn't work enough he suggests it wasn't illegal and was really something good he did on behalf of the country.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

9. He's been a high profile person...

for quite a while. I can bet he has had a “folder” on him for a while. Then it probably didn’t take much to get started after all his Russian talk during the campaign and after the election. It was not on a whim this had to be played out with much hand wringing and a boatload of lawyers. He was tainted years ago and they knew it but it didn’t matter much back then he was just another blowhard rich guy trying to get attention.

[vlyons]

10. 2 points

More than a few Republicans knew damn well that Russian money was coming in. In addition, like Trump, they are so habitually engaged in greed and self-cherishing that they cannot admit that they made a mistake. Money and power, by any means, is all they care about. They have no honor, no virtue.

[donkeypoofed]

13. I'd have felt less stress if I'd known about it all along!

I dont know about you all, but alot of my stress was worry that nobody was doing anything about Spankys treasonous behaviour. Now that I know that the FBI did indeed open an investigation after Spanky asked Russia for help out loud and in public, I'm so much more relaxed . Wish they'd told us sooner! Now I can sit back, get my popcorn out and enjoy the show.

[UniteFightBack]

15. Yeah I was telling my sister about this and she seemed uninterested. The most important thing

is sticking it to Dems...even if that means your fake president is a russian asshole.

[0rganism]

21. shocked! shocked!

your winnings, sir.
ooh thank you very much. everybody out at once!