Trump: Why didn't FBI, DOJ tell me agents were 'secretly investigating' Manafort?

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 06/03/18 09:49 AM EDT

President Trump on Sunday blasted the FBI and Department of Justice for not telling him that agents were “secretly investigating" his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, during the 2016 election.

“As only one of two people left who could become President, why wouldn’t the FBI or Department of “Justice” have told me that they were secretly investigating Paul Manafort (on charges that were 10 years old and had been previously dropped) during my campaign?” Trump asked in a tweet.

He added that Manafort “came into the campaign very late and was with us for a short period of time,” but said the campaign “should have been told that Comey and the boys were doing a number on him, and he wouldn’t have been hired!”

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Trump named Manafort head of his campaign in June 2016, but the businessman stepped down in August of that year after media reports of his dealings with the Ukraine government emerged.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390450-trump-why-didnt-fbi-doj-tell-me-they-were-secretly-investigating

[SWBTATTReg]

1. The FBI and others don't tell mob bosses that they are under ...

investigation, dic*he*d!

[forgotmylogin]

30. Please review the definition of "secret".

I don't think it means what you think it means.

[vlyons]

2. Oh, let's all take a wild guess why

Because they knew, you would tell him to burn all the documents? Because they wanted to flip him against you? Because they know that you're a traitor?

[NCjack]

7. ... and they will not swear an oath of fealty to you.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Hilarious!

He really believes that should happen. Oh my.

[underpants]

8. This is talk radio pablum.

For people who listen in you hear this repeatedly. It's been one of their big points for about 2 weeks.

[dameatball]

4. The secret investigations seem to be more productive than the investigations where.....

…...you warn the crook ahead of time. Especially if he tweets a lot.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. My guess is that is vocabulary is so limited

that he does not know the meaning of the word "secret".

He really has an astonishingly limited vocabulary.

[OldHippieChick]

6. Maybe your team should have done proper vetting of potential

employees - but wait - that implies any of your team had a clue. Never mind.

[lagomorph777]

33. Manafort was vetted; his criminal connections were a feature, not a bug.

Same reason Turd chose everybody in his gang of thieves.

[OldHippieChick]

34. Operative word

"proper"

[dweller]

9. Comey and the boys?

doing a number on him ...

shades of jimmy Cagney ...

[eShirl]

10. because he's such a freakin' blabbermouth

[duforsure]

11. Because they knew

And more than reasonably suspected he was also involved in the conspiracy against this country, and no obligation to.

[C_U_L8R]

12. Trump, you ignorant twit

Of course, you're a target of this criminal investigation.
The conspiracy begins and ends with you, pal.

[dameatball]

13. Well.....he does believe that everything begins and ends with him, so why not this?

[olddad56]

24. No, this investigation begins and ends with Russia

They committed an act of war. Trump committed treason. Plain and simple.

[Mc Mike]

14. He and his crew were told about all his treasonous funkies' activities,

and the threat those funkies posed to US national security, all the time, starting with his first Intel briefings, and continuing through the firings of Yates and the AGs.

Told, warned, repeatedly. So he's just lying and whining, again.

[appleannie1943]

15. Because they knew you already knew he was a crook? And that is why you hired him?

[lark]

16. Well, this is yet another lie and I apologize for the repeat as his tiny fingers were moving,

so lying is a given. FBI told him about Flynn, that he was under investigation and he hired him anyway. This is just more BS, because that's what nasty and mean does.

[JHB]

17. Your staff of "all the best people" didn't ask...

...when they, um, vetted, him.

It wasn't the FBI's responsibility to make your staff decisions, but they DID tell you the Russians might try to get people into your campaign.

[aggiesal]

18. WOW, he really is IQ45 n/t

[world wide wally]

19. Maybe they didn't tell you because they knew where your allegiances lie.

Squarely with Mannafort and Russia.

[turbinetree]

20. Stupid decides to ask a question.......................and gets a big .... duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and has shit for brains between those orange ears and under that orange hair...............what a fucking idiot................they were never dropped dumb shit, the investigation, there is no statue of limitations on some kinds of investigations..........................don't you have some kind of vetting process......... ........ fuck no you have no vetting process........nope, you think that since your a mob boss you can just get away with everything............................your a fucking IDIOT, and a sexual predator.......................and law and order is coming to get you and your criminal enterprise......................13 indictments and counting 5 that have pleaded guilty .....................................you are so fucked asshole.............................I and many others are really sick and tired of the threatening bull shit you spew...........................that's all your ilk do...........


The Blue Flood is coming this November 2018 , and one way or another you are going to go in front of a committee and you are going to commit perjury...............and we the people the progressives are going to take back this government.....................count on it , and expose "all" the shit...........................

[pecosbob]

21. Nonsense

1. You were warned as a candidate that foreign agents were trying to penetrate your campaign.

2. You repeatedly failed to notify the FBI that members of your campaign had numerous contacts with foreign agents whose intent was to illegally influence the upcoming election.

3. You knew about these contacts and failed to notify the FBI.

4. This makes you a knowing accomplice to illegal acts. The FBI had no obligation to tell you anything.

[flotsam]

22. Mr. Gotti, Mr. Gotti...

We need to warn you about the new guy Sammy the Bull!

[Crash2Parties]

23. Well Donny, it wouldn't be a "secret" then, would it?

[Firestorm49]

25. King Donald the 1st

Apparently, King Donald isn’t aware that he doesn’t own the DOJ. Poor boy. Can’t wait to see his sorry ass go down in flames.

[SummerSnow]

26. Oh for phuck sake!

[John Fante]

28. In related news, John Gotti is really pissed that the feds

didn't tell him what a ratfink Sammy the Bull was. He would never have made Sammy underboss! Should have told him!

Sad! Mad! Not happy!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

29. Dolt45 is so clueless.....

About how things work. Had he known, he would have told Paul Manafort what was going down.

Duh??????

[Nitram]

31. Umm, could it be they don't trust you, Don? The Con.

[apnu]

32. Boo Hoo! He's one of the "best people" from the towering mind of Trump

Squirm you orange shitgibbon, squirm.