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Trump called for acting FBI directors firing hours after FBI agents raided Paul Manaforts home
An incriminating fact-pattern emerges.
Aaron Rupar
Aug 9, 2017, 11:21 am
On Wednesday, the Washington Post broke news that FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trumps former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
The New York Times confirmed the report, adding that the agents were looking for tax documents and foreign banking records when they conducted a pre-dawn raid on the morning of July 26. The news was also confirmed by a spokesman for Manafort.
In light of the news about the raid of Manaforts home, Trumps tweets on the day of July 26 are of renewed interest. That was the day Trump abruptly posted a string of tweets announcing that the United States government will not accept or allow {t}ransgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Last Friday, Politico reported that Trumps declaration stunned White House and Department of Defense lawyers who had warned him against such a ban.
But more directly of interest are factually inaccurate tweets Trump posted later that day asking why Attorney General Jeff Sessions hadnt moved to replace then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
In June, the Post reported that special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into the Trump campaign included an examination of whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice by asking former FBI Director James Comey to stop investigating his associates before firing him in May. The fact pattern of July 26 certainly wont quell suspicions that Trump has tried to exert inappropriate pressure on the Department of Justice to kneecap an investigation into his campaign for possible collusion with Russia.
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Trump called for acting FBI directors firing hours after FBI agents raided Paul Manaforts home (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2017
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ffr
(22,676 posts)1. Foxes guarding the hen house.
Can this get any more obvious how corrupt tRump is???
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. What I find disturbing is this,
most of the Media slept through it. More and more obvious the Media is damn lazy or their duty to the Nations populace to keep them informed,is only a passing idea. Two weeks to break a story. Well,they helped Elect the POS in the White House,guilt complex?
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)3. The timing of the FBI raid explains a great deal