Poll of the Day > Trump officials demand Mueller return thousands of emails

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Doctor Foxx
05/27/18 5:27:31 PM
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WastelandCowboy
05/30/18 11:02:19 AM
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https://www.npr.org/2018/05/30/615435491/trump-i-wish-i-did-pick-a-different-attorney-general-than-sessions

Updated at 10:19 a.m. ET

President Trump resumed his attacks against Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday following reports that he had asked Sessions to un-recuse himself from the Russia investigation and after more erosion of his claim that the FBI spied on his campaign.

Trump used his Twitter account to echo the comments of House Oversight Committee chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who has been using TV appearances to try to offer some nuanced support to Trump.

Gowdy told CBS on Wednesday he could sympathize with Trump's frustrations about Sessions based on what he called Sessions' reticence about his willingness to take part in the Russia probe.

Gowdy said the problem wasn't necessarily because there had been any wrongdoing in that case, but that Sessions hadn't said before he became attorney general that he felt he couldn't take part in the matter.

Trump quoted Gowdy and added his own epigram: "'....There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!' And I wish I did!"

Trump's and Gowdy's comments followed a story in The New York Times that said Trump had asked Sessions to reverse his recusal in the Russia case.

Trump wanted Sessions to take control of the Russia matter, The Times reported, in order to protect him he evidently felt he could exercise more control over Sessions than Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller.

Gowdy sought on Fox News on Tuesday and then on CBS on Wednesday to put Trump's views into the context of the president's perspective: Trump told then-FBI Director James Comey, according to Comey's memos, that he hadn't done anything wrong but that if any of his staff members had, he wanted the FBI to find out.

And the FBI was doing just that when it sent a confidential informant to meet with three Trump campaign aides in 2016, Gowdy said.

"I am even more convinced the FBI did what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump," he said.

Gowdy emphasized the goal was to find out about Russia's interference in the election, not to spy on Trump's campaign the opposite of what Trump has claimed. Trump repeated his claim that the FBI was spying on him and his campaign on Tuesday night at a rally in Nashville.

Gowdy and House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., received a secret briefing last week about the FBI's use of the confidential human source. Gowdy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and others who have been briefed on the matter say nothing they've learned has shaken their confidence in the FBI or Mueller.

Trump and his supporters have spent months attacking Mueller, the FBI and the Justice Department with a variety of charges, including alleged "abuse of power," "bias" and others, which critics call an attempt to undercut public faith in federal law enforcement ahead of whatever Mueller's office discovers.
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knivesX2004
05/30/18 11:17:56 AM
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WastelandCowboy posted...
Gowdy and House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., received a secret briefing last week about the FBI's use of the confidential human source.

God I fucking hate Nunes so much.
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knivesX2004
05/31/18 5:31:02 PM
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Andromicus
05/31/18 5:33:02 PM
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What the heck came of his office being raided anyway?
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Doctor Foxx
05/31/18 5:35:22 PM
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Andromicus posted...
What the heck came of his office being raided anyway?

We won't know until the investigation has wrapped up. We know very little of what has been uncovered. What we do know is shady af
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knivesX2004
05/31/18 5:58:10 PM
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Doctor Foxx posted...
Andromicus posted...
What the heck came of his office being raided anyway?

We won't know until the investigation has wrapped up. We know very little of what has been uncovered. What we do know is shady af

It's going to take a long time to piece together all the shredded documents the FBI found.
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EvilMegas
05/31/18 6:04:54 PM
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This topic came a long way. But I'm demanding @Doctor_Foxx return all of these posts now!
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CarefreeDude
05/31/18 6:27:51 PM
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Right? Return all the posts
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Doctor Foxx
05/31/18 7:00:01 PM
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CarefreeDude posted...
Right? Return all the posts

You can't make me

I'm going to stockpile another 500 of them and make an anthology. Don't worry, I'll bring over some of the better fanboy comments for fun to watch them age like toilet wine
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GameReviews
05/31/18 7:19:01 PM
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To 500!
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Doctor Foxx
05/31/18 7:19:56 PM
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GameReviews posted...
To 500!

You're 500
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Ogurisama
05/31/18 7:22:18 PM
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Doctor Foxx
05/31/18 7:22:39 PM
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Ogurisama posted...
Doctor Foxx posted...
GameReviews posted...
To 500!

You're 500

Nice come back

That's what she said
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Mead
05/31/18 7:22:51 PM
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Trump bad
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