Andrew McCabe is fired. Will not collect retirement.

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cytg111

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Hmm cytg, this link has made me decide to join Twitter. What are your thoughts on this Bandit person?

It is out there, I would never treat it as facts. It is the rumor mill, I saw her referenced by Seth Abramsen who is all ready on the rumor mill.
You know, it is one of those things where you *might* get an early scoop on what is going down. Some of it pans out some of it does not (or just takes another angle or gets suppressed, who knows).

Do I belive Seth and Bandit to be honest people? Yes I do.
 
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Younigue

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It is out there, I would never treat it as facts. It is the rumor mill, I saw her referenced by Seth Abramsen who is all ready on the rumor mill.
You know, it is one of those things where you *might* get an early scoop on what is going down. Some of it pans out some of it does not (or just takes another angle or gets suppressed, who knows).

Do I belive Seth and Bandit to be honest people? Yes I do.
She certainly has an exciting way about her.
 

Younigue

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Deep State, Deep State of Rule of Law. Trump : *HOW DARE THEY! KILL THEM ALL!*
Well, drug dealers first then on to reporters, when his worshippers don't bat an eye then on to all people who disagree with him ever about anything.
 
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All these FBI agents saluting each other : For Country. For Honor. For God.
Aaaaaand Taj wants to investigate them for xyz!"# cause Trump. These guys live by the damned book, the rule of law.
You have been living in a dreamworld Taj. You should claw your way out to the desert of the real.
Why did the FBI recommend McCabe be fired? You make it sound as if he's a respected member instead of the lying sack of shit and the pariah he is.
 
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Jhhnn

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Why did the FBI recommend McCabe be fired? You make it sound as if he's a respected member instead of the lying sack of shit and the pariah he is.

So desperate, Taj. You're defending a completely unnecessary dick move by Trump & Sessions. McCabe was already out of the picture. The only difference between firing him Friday night instead of letting him retire on Sunday was the administration of the high hard one, the cornholio grande.

And, uhh, I'm really sure it's not a good way to get any slack from Mueller & the FBI, either. They know McCabe. They know his record & they know he's a much better man than you scurrilously claim him to be.
 

sportage

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Interesting, watching Real Time with Bill Maher "live" when one of the guest informed Bill "live" and the panel of this firing.
There was an audible gasp from Bill and the audience.
I remember Richard Nixon's Saturday night massacre and if THIS is not the same, this certainly comes in as a close second.

But hey....
I've said this over and over around here. That what we are experiencing in America is an actual real time real life Trump coup.
What is a coup?

Coup is when a country or a team attempt at taking something that is not theirs. The phrase coup d'état is French, literally meaning a "stroke of state" or "blow against the state". In French the word "État" (French: [eta]), denoting a sovereign political entity, is capitalized.

The republican party that enables Donald Trump are as anti-American, un-American as is Donald Trump himself. They are not republican as was the party we have known. No, they are not.
This is something completely new.
A mass of people that "call" themselves republican, march under the republican banner, but they are not that republican party as was our two party system republicans and democrats.

This is a coup in the making. Evolving day by day.
And the people that stand with Donald Trump, enable Donald Trump, who dare call themselves republican when they are not, they are of a foreign nature. A party and a president who's philosophy and ideology is alien to the ear, alien to the US Constitution.

Slowly, the American electorate have been attempting to correct this blasphemy at the polls. With rejecting this anti-American Trump machine.
Whether or not our American electorate will succeed is not clear.
This coup is speeding along like a run away train.
If this can be stopped, will be stopped, remains the unknown in the equation.
And THAT should scare the hell out of every true blue patriotic America citizen.

This absolutely could be Soviet sourced. Putin organized. KGB orchestrated.
And why would this happen? How could this happen?
MONEY!
Power, control, corruption, and for the MONEY.

If America only knew a fraction of the corruption involved, they would never believe it. That a man like Donald Trump could and absolutely would sell out the very soul of America for power and profit.
We are not talking about patriotic Americans here.
Just because one lives and conducts business within America does not make one American. Nor patriotic.
Donald Trump has dark connections. Donald Trump is not as he appears.
Donald Trump comes directly from Soviet connections. From great wealth with foreign origin.
And now, has become your president.
 
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Younigue

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Interesting, watching Real Time with Bill Maher "live" when one of the guest informed Bill "live" and the panel of this firing.
There was an audible gasp from Bill and the audience.
I remember Richard Nixon's Saturday night massacre and if THIS is not the same, this certainly comes in as a close second.

But hey....
I've said this over and over around here. That what we are experiencing in America is an actual real time real life Trump coup.
What is a coup?

Coup is when a country or a team attempt at taking something that is not theirs. The phrase coup d'état is French, literally meaning a "stroke of state" or "blow against the state". In French the word "État" (French: [eta]), denoting a sovereign political entity, is capitalized.

The republican party that enables Donald Trump are as anti-American, un-American as is Donald Trump himself. They are not republican as was the party we have known. No, they are not.
This is something completely new.
A mass of people that "call" themselves republican, march under the republican banner, but they are not that republican party as was our two party system republicans and democrats.

This is a coup in the making. Evolving day by day.
And the people that stand with Donald Trump, enable Donald Trump, who dare call themselves republican when they are not, they are of a foreign nature. A party and a president who's philosophy and ideology is alien to the ear, alien to the US Constitution.

Slowly, the American electorate have been attempting to correct this blasphemy at the polls. With rejecting this anti-American Trump machine.
Whether or not our American electorate will succeed is not clear.
This coup is speeding along like a run away train.
If this can be stopped, will be stopped, remains the unknown in the equation.
And THAT should scare the hell out of every true blue patriotic America citizen.

This absolutely could be Soviet sourced. Putin organized. KGB orchestrated.
And why would this happen? How could this happen?
MONEY!
Power, control, corruption, and for the MONEY.

If America only knew a fraction of the corruption involved, they would never believe it. That a man like Donald Trump could and absolutely would sell out the very soul of America for power and profit.
We are not talking about patriotic Americans here.
Just because one lives and conducts business within America does not make one American. Nor patriotic.
Donald Trump has dark connections. Donald Trump is not as he appears.
Donald Trump comes directly from Soviet connections. From great wealth with foreign origin.
And now, has become your president.
That's what it feels like I'm watching.
 

HomerJS

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Why did the FBI recommend McCabe be fired? You make it sound as if he's a respected member instead of the lying sack of shit and the pariah he is.
We all know you love ignoring the big picture. Maybe we can all slap you in the face with this thread chronicling the slow motion version of the Saturday Night Massacre. Maybe that's the real question.?

Oh, and since none of us have seen the actual report we don't know what possible infraction was worth fucking over McCabe's retirement funds.
 

dank69

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We all know you love ignoring the big picture. Maybe we can all slap you in the face with this thread chronicling the slow motion version of the Saturday Night Massacre. Maybe that's the real question.?

Oh, and since none of us have seen the actual report we don't know what possible infraction was worth fucking over McCabe's retirement funds.
If there is one thing the Trump administration will not tolerate, it is liars.
 

IGBT

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Hay...why doesn't McCabe go work for the Clinton Foundation!! He's crooked as can be and lies like a rug. He would fit right in!!
 

Younigue

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We all know you love ignoring the big picture. Maybe we can all slap you in the face with this thread chronicling the slow motion version of the Saturday Night Massacre. Maybe that's the real question.?

Oh, and since none of us have seen the actual report we don't know what possible infraction was worth fucking over McCabe's retirement funds.
When facts are presented to Taj his eyes glaze over and dreams of grenading babies dance in his head.
 

FIVR

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Hay...why doesn't McCabe go work for the Clinton Foundation!! He's crooked as can be and lies like a rug. He would fit right in!!

I support this. Maybe McCabe can be Hillary Clinton's new chauffeur. That would be the ultimate revenge for stealing the Presidency from her - to make the FBI agent responsible her bitch boy driver for the rest of her life. Comey can be her butler.
 

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John Dowd, personal attorney for President Trump:

“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,”

How is this not obstruction of justice, you can't get any more obvious...
 

Commodus

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John Dowd, personal attorney for President Trump:

“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,”

How is this not obstruction of justice, you can't get any more obvious...

Never mind that he's basing his call on false pretenses, Dowd's statement by itself isn't obstruction. Now if Trump was stupid enough to follow through, that'd be obstruction.

As it is, al the extra screaming seems prompted by the Mueller investigation subpoenaing documents from the Trump Organization and otherwise edging closer to criminal cases. Whenever Trump and his team whine loudly, it's because investigators are on to something.
 

Sunburn74

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John Dowd, personal attorney for President Trump:

“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,”

How is this not obstruction of justice, you can't get any more obvious...
How telling thing is that at this point even Trump's lawyer is aware that his clients only salvation at this point is prayer. The writing is clearly on the wall.
 

BoomerD

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How telling thing is that at this point even Trump's lawyer is aware that his clients only salvation at this point is prayer. The writing is clearly on the wall.

We’ve all seen how well “thoughts and prayers” are at stopping school shootings...I’m sure they will protect Donny-boy as well...
 

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BonzaiDuck

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John Dowd, personal attorney for President Trump:

“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,”

How is this not obstruction of justice, you can't get any more obvious...
. . . Not when you have an accumulation of evidence for collusion already. Like they say -- collusion isn't a crime. Misprision of Treason or just plain Treason is. Misprision of a Felony is.

Either a search through the discovery-tree of evidence will increase the chance of finding something on a further branch, or the absence of indications will begin to suggest continued investigation is just additional cost -- or -- it's a witch-hunt.

This is no witch-hunt. Overlapping all the connecting branches or successful connection of the dots and over time, is Trump's own consistently guilty behavior -- his inclination to obstruct justice, hire more lawyers to silence several people, push forth his lawyers to make ridiculous statements like this, and continue to signal that "something is There" while denying that it's there. And they already have enough evidence of obstruction. But the Republicans are less concerned about the risk to our country than they are for pursuing their own agenda.

So they don't move forward with Trump's impeachment, or they are merely trying to block, forestall, and deflect.
 
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So desperate, Taj. You're defending a completely unnecessary dick move by Trump & Sessions. McCabe was already out of the picture. The only difference between firing him Friday night instead of letting him retire on Sunday was the administration of the high hard one, the cornholio grande.

And, uhh, I'm really sure it's not a good way to get any slack from Mueller & the FBI, either. They know McCabe. They know his record & they know he's a much better man than you scurrilously claim him to be.
According to Comey he never authorized McCabe to leak information to the press, according to McCabe, Comey authorized him to leak information to the press. Which one is the liar and committed perjury? It's one or the other.
 
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http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciar...-life-tough-for-comey-and-the-special-counsel

"However, McCabe may have rectified his “singled out” status with his long statement criticizing his termination: In the middle of it is a line that could be viewed as incriminating fired FBI director James Comey, not just in leaking sensitive information but also in lying to Congress.

McCabe is accused of misleading investigators about allegedly giving information to a former Wall Street Journal reporter about the investigation of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton family’s charitable foundation. McCabe asserts in his post-firing statement that he not only had authority to “share” that information to the media but did so with the knowledge of “the director.” The FBI director at the time was Comey."
 
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