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triron

(22,008 posts) Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:54 PM Mar 2017

So what does this mean?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/justice-dept-declines-to-back-claim-trump-is-not-under-investigation.html

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So what does this mean? (Original Post) triron Mar 2017 OP

Means our Justice dept now is a branch of the Kremlin. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1

What? The Justice Dept is not allowed to comment on onging investigations. Nitram Mar 2017 #5

kick for visibility triron Mar 2017 #2

Standard practice, elleng Mar 2017 #3

That the Justice Dept did not, and will not, give the WH any information that would allow jmg257 Mar 2017 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)

1. Means our Justice dept now is a branch of the Kremlin.

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 03:04 PM

Mar 2017

Nitram

(22,840 posts)

5. What? The Justice Dept is not allowed to comment on onging investigations.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 03:17 PM

Mar 2017

Justice is our last line of defense against Trump and the GOP-dominated Congress.

triron

(22,008 posts)

2. kick for visibility

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 03:04 PM

Mar 2017

elleng

(131,023 posts)

3. Standard practice,

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 03:05 PM

Mar 2017

they should NOT comment, and they haven't: 'there was no indication that anyone at the Justice Department had given the White House that assurance.

Asked whether Mr. Trump was in fact the target of an investigation, the official offered a “no comment.”'

jmg257

(11,996 posts)

4. That the Justice Dept did not, and will not, give the WH any information that would allow

Reply to triron (Original post)

Thu Mar 9, 2017, 03:06 PM

Mar 2017

the WH to assure the public that, based on information from the justice Dept, there is no ongoing trump investigation.

Not sure why they came out with it. Maybe something Spicer said about 'no reason to believe trump is being investigated by the Justice Dept'.

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