Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its ex

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

Full headline: Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence

President Trump asked two of the nations top intelligence officials in March to help him push back against an FBI investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and the Russian government, according to current and former officials.

Trump made separate appeals to the director of national intelligence, Daniel Coats, and to Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, urging them to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of collusion during the 2016 election.

Coats and Rogers refused to comply with the requests, which they both deemed to be inappropriate, according to two current and two former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private communications with the president.

Trump sought the assistance of Coats and Rogers after FBI Director James B. Comey told the House Intelligence Committee on March 20 that the FBI was investigating 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 Russias efforts.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-asked-intelligence-chiefs-to-push-back-against-fbi-collusion-probe-after-comey-revealed-its-existence/2017/05/22/394933bc-3f10-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html

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Soon as the 2 minions got home, the leaks started again!

[Docreed2003]

1. Who the hell does this guy think he is? This isn't some shady business deal...

This isn't private life anymore. You can't just bribe and threaten your way out of an investigation when you're the President of the United States!

[Demsrule86]

5. He must have ordered the code red...ie...the collusion.

[Docreed2003]

13. Exactly....

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Donnie will tell you to your face,

"I am a Star and Star's get away with things". Just ask Billy Bush.

[Docreed2003]

11. Sadly, true!

[Amaryllis]

25. He doesn't get that this is different from how he ran his businesses all those years. He thought

it would be the same. So not his fault because he didn't know and now all these people are picking on him and it's not fair.

[Dustlawyer]

27. It worked with Pam Bondi in Florida and Greg Abbott in Texas for Trump U!

That was before he was president but it was for state government lawsuits. I guess he thought it works even better as President

[bucolic_frolic]

2. 'I have nothing to hide so be sure you help cover it up'

No moral compass and a tin ear for ethics.

Landlord/developer, what do you expect?

[Thomas Hurt]

3. and catch those leakers who are lying to the press about things Donnie never did.

[riversedge]

4. Trump asked Coats and Rogers to publicly deny existence of any evidence of collusion w Russia in el

Does not Trump understand the separation that must exist between him and the investigators????





Amy Siskind‏Verified account @Amy_Siskind 7m7 minutes ago

BREAKING: Trump asked Coats and Rogers to publicly deny existence of any evidence of collusion w Russia in election

Link to tweet

Lily Sed‏ @SedLily 2m2 minutes ago
Replying to @Amy_Siskind

The impeachment reasons are piling up!!
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*45 made in Russia‏ @calihatestrump 2m2 minutes ago
Replying to @Amy_Siskind @kharyp

He's screaming I'm guilty!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

6. He doesn't care.

Oft-quoted MLK ditty (cited by Joe Madison all the time) -



In Drumpf's case, he has some hanger-on-ers who are sincerely ignorant of government and then there are the rest like himself who are conscientiously (and arrogantly) stupid!

[Blue Ridge Virginia]

7. Three counts of obstruction?

Two current and two former officials are anonymous sources. Can we guess Coats, Rogers, Comey, and who else for the other former official?

[thesquanderer]

12. Right, confirmed by FOUR people

It was confirmed by "two current and two former officials" -- That got me thinking, just how many people were in the room when Trump made these requests? This would seem to help him figure out who the leakers would be. But then I thought, he went on national TV and said he fired Comey over the Russia thing, after already instructing his spokespeople to say that had nothing to do with it. So he seems to either not care how many people see that he's doing something shady, or he doesn't realize these things are shady. So who knows, maybe there were a whole entourage of people witnessing these things.

[dvduval]

8. Obstruction of Justice

Seems to me it can't get any more obvious. He is obstructing.

[BeyondGeography]

14. K&R

[bettyellen]

15. He's had a load of experience obstructing justice in previous trials and knows exactly what

He is doing! I don't know why half the pundits are acting as if he is merely ignorant. Gotta love the female talking heads- they're not having that bullshit, lol!

[Madam45for2923]

19. Good!

"Gotta love the female talking heads- they're not having that bullshit, lol!"

[bettyellen]

21. Except for Greta Von Devils Advocate the women are on to his game, LOL....

I'm kind of shocked how guys are trying to write this off as "ignorance" when anyone knows better than to try and obstruct investigations or put out fake news. He knows exactly what he is doing.

[Madam45for2923]

23. Seems like they are stuck in a past reality, whereas the women are PRESENT.

[George II]

16. Here we go again - the Watergate scandal was relatively minor until Nixon asked the CIA.....

....to interfere in the FBI investigation. That triggered the beginning of the end.

[cisco man]

17. PLEASE!!!

Will someone in the MSM please tell me what exactly they consider evidence of INTENT???? God damn!!! What does this ignoramus have to do????

[brooklynite]

18. Our FRiends have addressed the story...

FAKE NEWS!

ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN MANCHESTER!

[Stuart G]

20. So, ... Trump asked this..(stop investigation) more than once (Comey, Coats and Rogers)..that is 3,

oops.....not just once...............but 3 strikes you are out...

Coats and Rogers refused to comply with the requests, which they both deemed to be inappropriate, according to two current and two former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private communications with the president.


3 strikes you are out....He did this three separate times.. Hard to miss 3 times..hard to cover up now..three to testify someone tried to stop an investigation...3, Yes 3........ not just one isolated case.........3 separate requests.











Good By Trump, Good By Trump, Good By Trump

[bettyellen]

22. I'd heard it was four- two current and two former so the other former WH employee is who?

Rogers and Coates are still in right? Comey and who else are ex WH?

[Stuart G]

24. don't know....maybe four, will put him on the floor..

we will see....not just one isolated example...3 and maybe 4..total...

[pansypoo53219]

26. HEY! this worked on getting women into bed. gotta try,

putin paid enough.

[DefenseLawyer]

28. Yet they both still serve at the pleasure of Donald Trump.

No integrity.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. Wasn't something similar what got Nixon to resign?

[Skittles]

30. this is how that bastard operated as a private "businessman" - BULLYING

LOL, HE TRIED TO BULLY THE SPOOKS

WHAT AN IDIOT

[FailureToCommunicate]

31. Obstruction of Justice. Happy Hunger Games Trump! And may the odds be NEVER in your favor!

[JTFrog]

32. But he never said the word "Russia"....