Trump Suggests Susan Rice Committed Crime, Citing No Evidence

[brooklynite]

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Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that he thought that the former national security adviser Susan E. Rice may have committed a crime by seeking the identities of Trump associates who were mentioned on intercepted communications and that other Obama administration officials may also have been involved.

“I think it’s going to be the biggest story,” Mr. Trump said in an interview in the Oval Office, declining repeated requests for evidence for his allegations or the names of other Obama administration officials. “It’s such an important story for our country and the world. It is one of the big stories of our time.”

He declined to say if he had personally reviewed new intelligence to bolster his claim but pledged to explain himself “at the right time.”

When asked if Ms. Rice, who has denied leaking the names of Trump associates under surveillance by United States intelligence agencies, had committed a crime, the president said, “Do I think? Yes, I think.”



Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/us/politics/trump-interview-susan-rice.html

[caroldansen]

1. Isnt that like the pot figuratively speaking calling the kettle black. Is he innocent?!

[caroldansen]

6. I heard trump once called himself a democrat. What a fake and phony he is.

[forgotmylogin]

24. People say Donald Trump may have committed a crime.

[Ligyron]

50. actually, many crimes.

Plus, this moran has no idea what the powers of the NSC are or their duties. Bannon?

Come to think of it, he knows very little about how government works.

[maxsolomon]

2. distract distract distract

he's got such a limited repertoire of tricks

[forgotmylogin]

75. He just wants "crime" and "someone besides Trump" repeated on the airwaves.

[SharonClark]

3. Who gives a flying F**K what he says

He lies 80% of the time.

[3catwoman3]

37. Only 80%?

It feels like it is anytime he's flapping his lips.

[Rincewind]

85. He does occasionally tell the truth.

When he talks about how he wants to fuck Ivanka.

[3catwoman3]

86. I think I have been selectively...

...forgetting that disturbing bit of honesty.

[True_Blue]

87. How can you when Trump is lying?

His lips move.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

39. Agreed.

Whatever comes out of his mouth is garbage. The news networks shouldn't play the stupid game. Nobody should fall for this shit anymore. There are much more important things to do.

[Dave Starsky]

63. I honestly can't think of a truthful thing he ever said.

Maybe the times he suggested that he wanted to fuck his daughter. I think he was honest about all of that.

[Phoenix61]

4. Yet another lie

He said he thinks. That is obviously, patently, false. But about the other stuff. She didn't unmask anything. The agency that produced the raw Intel did the unmasking. She may have asked, in the course of doing her job, a name be unmasked but the producer of the Intel did the unmasking.

[caroldansen]

9. If trump thinks it its always false.

[mopinko]

32. beat me to it.

but yeah, how would she have been doing her job if she DIDNT ask to see who was talking to who about treason?

[Jonny Appleseed]

5. Go fuck yourself in your fat fucking ass.

We better stop softballing him with "Trump associates colluding with Russian agents" and go with what we're all trying to say diplomatically "Donald Trump conspired to commit and carried out criminal actions as an agent of the Russian government"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Oh, FFS.

Rice was the National Security Advisor. She was doing her job. Did SCROTUS mention that there would have been no intercepts at all if there hadn't been FISA warrants authorizing them, or that Rice would have had to sought and received permission for the names to be unmasked, and that she didn't tell anyone whose names those were?

Of course not. More chaff.

[Pacifist Patriot]

25. My exact reaction.

[Sunlei]

45. Our 'overseas' allies also intercepted communications and noticed meetings. Even Putin sent a

photo of Flynn? and a couple other 'big names' handsomely paid "vacation" in Moscow.

Mr. Trumps always been out of the Republicans "inner loop". The good old boys shared nothing important with Donald.

[JHan]

8. The President should not be saying stuff like this, what is the fucker up to now?

He's going to go after Rice?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. He'll make noise against anybody if it takes even a little attention away from #TrumpRussia.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Smokescreen attempting to divert attention from #TrumpRussia by the Minority President. nt

[shraby]

11. Coming from not one of the biggest liars on the continent, but THE biggest liar on the

continent.
His tally of lies per statements is phenomenal.

[TexasProgresive]

12. He should say that looking in a mirror, "You sir are a criminal."

[yallerdawg]

14. The jackass-in-chief is referencing...

Drudge Report, Daily Caller, and conspiracy theorist DiGenova.

This is such a crock of shit it is merely another notch in his lengthening record of lies and overt ignorance.

I cannot believe this buffoon holds the office these 60,000,000 deplorable morons made possible for him to stumble into.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. Blast from the past: Nixon pronounces Charles Manson "guilty."

Nixon Calls Manson Guilty; Attorneys Move a Mistrial

By Leopold N. Loeb,* August 4, 1970

President Nixon may have freed Charles Manson-not by an act of executive clemency, but by one of errant stupidity. ... Defense attorneys for Manson, Leslie Van Houten, and Susan Atkins-who face charges of murder stemming from the mass killings last August of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons-moved for a mistrial yesterday after learning that Nixon had said that Manson was "guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason."

Trial Judge Charles N. Holder denied the motion pending an official version of the Nixon remarks, but a defense attorney said the judge was "alarmed" at the report.

Oops

Late last night, however, Nixon said flatly he did not mean to imply that Manson was guilty.
....

In Los Angeles, defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald told reporters, "If we're going to have the chief executive of this nation categorically or uncategorically speculate on people's guilt, we ought to abandon this court system. Maybe President Nixon in a news conference ought to determine whether these people are guilty."

* "Leopold N. Loeb"? Are you kidding me?

[Juliusseizure]

36. Yeah but that was Charles Manson

[mahatmakanejeeves]

38. Granted, not exactly a model citizen, but

if any prosecutor ever did bring charges against Susan Rice, her attorneys would immediately move to dismiss them on the grounds that any jury, anywhere, anytime, anyplace, would haven been prejudiced by *****'s pronouncement.

And by "*****," I mean T****, not Nixon.

[Juliusseizure]

54. Agree

My point Nixon didn't make the allegation against innocent political opposition for purposes of cover up.

I hope every one of these tweets just adds to impeachable obstruction charges.

But Trump was careful to frame it as an opinion, as would the Hannity's. Otherwise, its a defamation suit. Journalists should ask him "so you're saying Rice committed a criminal offense?" forcing him to weasel out of it.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

59. I remember that Nixon had announced that someone was guilty.

I was horrified to see that it was Charles Manson. So, yeah, I was hoping that it was a more ... likeable ... person involved.

[Le Gaucher]

16. No worries .. That is just Trump-o-Matic at work

[dalton99a]

21. Beautiful.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

27. That is by far the most accurate cartoon of this criminally insane-man baby-poor

excuse for a Batman villain.

[Javaman]

17. more bullshit to feed to his moron followers so they can concoct a new conspiracy

from whole clothe.

[Initech]

18. It's the Trump-O-Matic 9000 at work churning out bullshit!

[WePurrsevere]

19. When one deflection attempt doesn't work well enough...

Try another.. and another.. and another. I guess he figures he if throws enough imaginary poo out there sooner or later something will take the heat off of his and his cabal's real and increasingly stinky poo... it won't.

The more he projects, deflects, lies, etc the more guilty he looks in a he "doth protest too much, methinks" way.

[George II]

20. donny, shove it up your bloated butt. We know YOU committed a crime, no "may" about it.

[still_one]

22. This POS is a disgrace and needs to be removed

[brush]

23. So they've decided to make Susan Rice the scapegoat to cover up his lie about O wiretapping him.

Typical of this liar — trying to divert away from the Russian collusion investigation so he targets O's National Security Advisor who did her job as National Security Advisor in making it her office's business in finding out who in his campaign was talking surreptitiously to the Russians.

If she hadn't done exactly that she'd have been in dereliction of duty.

[NRaleighLiberal]

26. Gaslighting. Projection. Bullshit . Lies. Just a normal day in trumpland

[Glimmer of Hope]

28. What crime? More nonsense and more deflection.

I wonder if Rice can sue his ass.

[wiggs]

29. I hope no one in media assumes: 1) that Trump actually understands the law 2) that Trump

understands what Susan Rice did, and 3) would voice a truthful opinion about it even if he did understand the issue

At this point, citizens and media outlets should assume he's an ignorant liar unless proven differently. No reason to think otherwise

[BeyondGeography]

30. Trying to keep Bannon out of the news

Classic stuff from President Junkyard Dog.

[notdarkyet]

31. The deflector in-chief.

[Renew Deal]

33. 75% of americans think he's a con man

[Gymbo]

34. The best and most appropriate response

Is for Susan Rice to comment that Donald Trump may have committed a crime.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

35. Looky over there

[Sunlei]

40. Thanks Mr. Trump! So "Trump associates" really were contacting suspicious Russians.

Were they "Trump associates" personal contacts and 'friends' or did some other Republicans connect the "Trump associates" with the Russians?

[FakeNoose]

74. That's all the confirmation we need

[Sunlei]

83. I got you.

Link to tweet

[janx]

41. Nothing this lunatic can do

will stop the investigations on the part of Congress and intelligence agencies. He is pissing in the wind.

[LisaM]

42. She needs to bring a lawsuit.

At this point, there is no reason to take the high road. She's being slandered; as if they didn't put her through enough with their Benghazi nonsense.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. As has been said many times on DU,

it is almost impossible to sue a public figure for defamation. So, no.

[LisaM]

55. She was accused of being a criminal.

And publicly. We'll see, I guess. But I'm tired of taking this crap lying down.

[CousinIT]

43. He never provided evidence of his Obama wiretapping claim and he will never provide..

...evidence that Rice "committed a crime" -- because she didn't.

HIS OPINION and the opinions of his Trumpanzee followers are NOT LAW. They can BELIEVE whatever they want. The truth and the law however, have nothing to do with their fantasyland.

[Moostache]

53. He never apologized for the "Birther" nonsense either...

I STILL want people to question about what exactly his "people" he sent to Hawaii were seeing that we would not believe...bad things, terrible things...

I am so fucking through with this shit-gibbon flinging his own feces around and the press calling it "news"...STOP covering his obvious lies and clear attempts to distract the attention away from his own crimes and issues.

[WinkyDink]

44. The first sentence is "Fake News"; i.e., Trump did not say "may have." He said, "YES."

[Vinca]

47. Guess he pulled that one out of the law library up his ass.

[TeamPooka]

48. Squirrel! Watch the media fall for it too. nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

49. Benghazi rehash may be coming up - or possibly Rump may produce a unicorn for everyone to look at

[rladdi]

51. Who's next after Susan Rice? The Republicans continue the

trashing of honest Democrats doing their job, unlike the Republicans and Trump. They want to keep the focus off themselves and just keep charging anyone they can develop a good story.

[Eyeball_Kid]

52. The logic:

Trumpy ASSUMES that there is NO Russia/Trump connection or relationship. Even though that's an in-your-face lie, Trumpy's blaming of everyone starts there. Then he can surmise that the "unmasking" of Trump campaign people can only be considered politically (and NOT law enforcement) motivated, because there wouldn't be another viable reason for the unmasking. Trumpy is playing this fundamantal denial, that there was NO collusion with Russia, to the very end. All of his distractions and allegations only make sense with the fundamental denial.

[riversedge]

56. R/T: None of our modern Presidents have stooped so low. Makes wild charges with no evidence.

Nicholas Burns‏ @RNicholasBurns

None of our modern Presidents have stooped so low. Makes wild charges with no evidence.

Link to tweet

[Sunlei]

57. ok, we see Another crazy tweet-lie from the Republican but this response is hilarious!

Link to tweet

[cstanleytech]

58. If she hasnt done anything illegal and if he is lying she needs to sue him as the president does not

have full immunity, if he did then Clinton could have told Ken Starr to fuck off.

[Initech]

60. Go fuck yourself, Trump.

[turbinetree]

61. Hey sexual predator, while you were gallivanting down to Mar A Lago spending $203,000 a hour

and over 45 million playing f***ing golf, so far, and your wife has incurred over 56 million defending your worthless name on some building.

Rice did something that you haven't down, when she got vetted she released her tax returns-------------------were still waiting ass****

So FU and the horse you road in on, your "approval" rating is now down to 32%, why it is at this all time high is beyond me, it should be at .01 %

And then whats really iconic is that there are some in the the corporate media is trying desperately to connect your BS, when it came from "guy" that initiated the pizza gate shit

[tblue37]

62. She should sue him for slander. nt

[rockfordfile]

64. Benedict Donald

[GeorgeGist]

65. The media has a new toy to chase.

[Angry Dragon]

66. Trump farted............they reported

[UT_democrat]

67. The Evidence Suggests

That Trump Committed Crimes.


look! anyone can do it!

[rtracey]

68. hahha

You know what?your prison uniform is going to match your fake hair. I can't wait for you to be a choir boy in the joint.... one can hope.

[7962]

69. evidence? We dont need no stinkin' evidence! nt

[Fast Walker 52]

70. in other news, TRUMP IS STILL AN IDIOT

[sprinkleeninow]

72. "He thinks"???? With what's not 'up in the belfry except bats'. n/t

[EarthFirst]

71. Deplorables don't need proof...

It's in the interwebz so it must be true!

[trueblue2007]

73. TRUMP DOESN'T THINK ....... he has no brain.

[Eliot Rosewater]

76. Waiting for him to go after one of the real patriots, like Rice and

our reaction better be that we are all in at that point.

A Susan Rice or whoever will NOT be indicted or arrested by a corrupt justice dept.

I hope we draw the line there.

Anyway , this whole distraction was created by a known liar, DiGenova. Never ever tells the truth, wouldn't know the truth if he saw it.

[juxtaposed]

77. Susan Rice suggests Trump committed a crime, Citing it's classified

[Eliot Rosewater]

78. Need to fumigate or tear down the oval office if an adult ever gets in there again.

The shame cant be removed.

[spiderpig]

79. Is anybody surprised?

It's what he does.

[SummerSnow]

80. " I have the best mind"

[dalton99a]

81. Again, pulling shit out of his mouth

[bucolic_frolic]

82. Trump is always playing a credibility game

The gullible believe him

[drray23]

84. He does not need to provide evidence.

Its working anyway. The gop senators are already falling all over themselves to conflate this with the real investigation about collusion with russia and saying they will get to the bottom of this and ask rice to testify.

Trump has figured out he can gum up the whole investigation simply by throwing wild accusations and have it picked up by the committees.