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by Aaron Rupar at ThinkProgress
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-called-for-acting-fbi-directors-firing-hours-after-fbi-agents-raided-paul-manaforts-home-7c702db9ab82/
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In light of the news about the raid of Manaforts home, Trumps tweets on the day of July 26 are of renewed interest. That was the day Trump abruptly posted a string of tweets announcing that the United States government will not accept or allow [t]ransgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Last Friday, Politico reported that Trumps declaration stunned White House and Department of Defense lawyers who had warned him against such a ban.
But more directly of interest are factually inaccurate tweets Trump posted later that day asking why Attorney General Jeff Sessions hadnt moved to replace then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
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Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got....
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...big dollars ($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives. Drain the Swamp!
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leftstreet
(36,108 posts)He's been tweeting fire and fury for months, but it doesn't always make any sense
Gothmog
(145,312 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)coincidence?
No, probably not.