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The intervention with Sessions, which has not previously been reported, marked another example of the presidents year-long attempts to shape and influence an investigation that is fundamentally outside his control. Trump, appearing frustrated and at times angry, has complained to confidants and aides in recent weeks that he does not understand why he cannot simply give orders to my guys at what he sometimes calls the Trump Justice Department, two people familiar with the presidents comments said.
The president has told close advisers that the memo is starting to make people realize how the FBI and the Mueller probe are biased against him, and that it could provide him with grounds for either firing or forcing Rosenstein to leave, according to one person familiar with his remarks. He has privately derided Rosenstein as the Democrat from Baltimore. Rosenstein is not a Democrat. He was appointed as a U.S. attorney in Maryland by President George W. Bush and was kept in that post by President Barack Obama.
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(70,205 posts)Now we have the a President wanting to release classified information and Repugs are silent. damn. we are in trouble!!