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One White House official says his tweet appearing to confirm obstruction probe came out of nowhere.
By JOSH DAWSEY 06/16/2017 11:44 AM EDT
President Donald Trump has smarted all week over the stories about the special counsel probe zeroing in on him and his close associates, according to a White House official, spending hours in the White House obsessing over the coverage.
And Trumps bombshell tweet on Friday morning appearing to confirm that hes now under investigation for obstruction of justice and attacking his deputy attorney general is part of a broader decision by the president to go on the attack, the official said.
I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt, Trump tweeted on Friday, apparently referring to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to overtake the sprawling Russia probe.
That he would confirm he is under investigation came out of nowhere, this official said. "I don't think we have been formally told he's under investigation," the official said. "He was commenting on Twitter on all the stories that are out there."
Trump has been told repeatedly not to post such missives on Twitter but has decided he is in for a political fight, according to one outside adviser briefed on the strategy. Advisers have told him to use his Twitter to boost his political message or attack Democrats instead of talking about the legal case. But Trump doesn't trust others to share his message, this person said, because they don't want to share it the way he does.
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Cary
(11,746 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)wont do the right thing.
So who will?
Trump will push us into a constitutional crisis, will not care if people start beating on each other, he wont care and in fact will love it if we do.
So we CANT do that.
Republicans, dear GOD, please DO SOMETHING!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)going after the Trump Crime Family. Story this AM about Eric and Donnie being investigated for fraud and theft.
Dipstick Donnie has pissed off the most conservative Agency in the Federal Government and that is the FBI. And now it is pay-back time.
EarlG
(21,966 posts)for the DUzy king!
herding cats
(19,567 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Please keep tweeting sir, thus revoking all rights to executive privilege.
Leith
(7,813 posts)in this one instance, let tRump be tRump.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)....but he was a crook....and Nixon... could never have won..and..............................................
neither can Drump.....He has lost, and perhaps, he doesn't know it...
....In another post, Mueller has hired 13 of the finest anti-corruption lawyers available..
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141801068
.That team smells blood, and that blood and corruption is what that team will devour. Trump has not got a chance. He can do what he wants, attack what he wants, and say what he wants. it doesn't matter. They will get him...why?...................
well...........................he is crook too.
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)Stuart G
(38,445 posts)he will be unable to convince anyone else. He is no victim. He did what he did, and said what he said...as stated in the above post...He is a crook....and the only way out..........is what happened to Nixon..
Trump Resigns....Pence pardons them all...or just Trump...
oxbow
(2,034 posts)These tweets are just to fire up his base. As long as the base supports him, GOP members of congress will be unlikely to cross him. This is how he stays in power...
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)of the scene in the Hunt for Red October where Ramius steers the sub at high speed into the approaching torpedo which he hits and destroys before it could arm.
Maybe trump wants to get impeached while he still has friends who will get him off the hook.
oxbow
(2,034 posts)He may have some greater plan in mind, like you mentioned.
Otoh, there's lots of reporting out there on how much he dislikes being potus. Still, his ego can't take resigning and being called a loser/quitter. I think this is just his unconscious trying to deal with the conflict by self-sabotaging to get what it wants.
Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)He certainly seems to be his own worst enemy. But that's not unusual.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)When he is admiring himself in the mirror?
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)Trump is not being subjected to NEARLY the intense legal scrutiny, attacks and abuse Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama have been subjected to all their lives (much of it most recently from HIS own band of terrorists). IF HE WAS, he'd never have been sworn in to begin with.
He gets ZERO sympathy from me.
Who wants to take up a collection to send poor little whiny-ass Donnie some Pampers and some Midol and some pacifiers?
Ugh!