NEWSWEEK: The president might be wise to negotiate a resignation before he's fatally wounded.

[kpete]

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One Republican on the panel, Mike Conaway of Texas, asked Comey how he could be so sure the Russians were for Trump. “Logic,” Comey answered, stifling a smirk. If they were against Clinton, who’d pressed a hard line against Putin’s multi-pronged “hybrid war” against Europe and repression of dissidents at home, that meant they were for Trump, whose ties to Russian oligarchs led the Kremlin to think it might get a better deal. At first the Russians “focused on undermining her presidency,” which until Election Day looked like a cinch, Comey said. Trump’s victory was an unexpected bonus.

Lest any Trump supporter hope the feds were through with him after the election, Comey relieved them of that illusion, too. The FBI, he said, was continuing to investigate “the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.”

Translation: The bureau is conducting an open-ended counterintelligence investigation into whether any of Trump’s associates collluded with the Russians. The FBI generally does not open an investigation, much less continue one, unless there’s evidence of a possible crime. And unlike criminal investigations, which generally require indictments from grand juries at some point, the FBI’s counterintelligence probe of Russian subversion and Trump’s associates could remain open for months, even years. Comey also said the FBI will conduct “an assessment of whether any crimes were committed.”

The upshot: Barring some unforeseen development, the Trump White House will feel the drip, drip, drip of the bureau’s multiple probes for its entire time in office. No doubt the leaks have just begun.

The president might be wise to negotiate a resignation before he’s fatally wounded. Comey and Rogers slashed him so badly on Monday, with their emphatic eviscerations of his infamous tweets claiming President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, that his credibility on any issue, outside his adoring legions of cult-like fans, has been nearly destroyed. At some point, the Republicans may see their own salvation lies in deserting him for Vice President Mike Pence.




http://www.newsweek.com/trump-comey-russia-stranger-things-571349

[Blue_Tires]

1. I predicted this eventual outcome five weeks ago

[tonyt53]

2. The GOP establishment is using Trump to get all they have wanted for years.

When they feel satisfied with what they have gotten from him, they will impeach him. Then this country will have a different type of idiot to deal with in Pence. Hell, even the GOP legislature in IN is still cleaning up the mess he left the state in.

[underpants]

3. I agree

When they themselves were warning what he was doing to them just IN the election it was telling.

[gratuitous]

8. What do they get with Trump that they don't get with Pence?

Or is the point that they get their way with Trump, get rid of him, then bring in Pence as Mr. Reasonable Republican to distance themselves from Trump? Seems like an unnecessarily complicated three-rail shot when they can just dump Trump, bring in Pence, and get to the same destination without having to interrupt themselves.

[Miles Archer]

4. "At some point, the Republicans may see their own salvation lies in deserting him...

for Vice President Mike Pence. "

And I can tell you exactly when it will happen. It will be the James Dean "chicken race" from "Rebel Without A Cause."

The Republicans will dump Trump the minute the front tires touch the edge of the cliff, and not a second before.

They will get away with everything they can until that moment comes.

[spanone]

5. K&R...X 10,000,000

[lame54]

6. they are dreaming...

Trump ain't going anywhere

and no one is gonna throw him out

[Glimmer of Hope]

7. He needs to lawyer up with a team that is not Russian tainted.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. K&R

[BSdetect]

10. No pardon for drumph or any deals that let him retain his assetts.

[colsohlibgal]

11. Agree Totally

He is a swindler and a liar.