***BREAKING*** Comey will testify and confirm bombshell allegation Trump pressured him to end probe

[DemocratSinceBirth]

(CNN)Fired FBI director James Comey plans to testify publicly in the Senate as early as next week to confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump pressured him to end his investigation into a top Trump aide's ties to Russia, a source close to the issue said Wednesday.

Final details are still being worked out and no official date for his testimony has been set. Comey is expected to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia during last year's presidential election.
Comey has spoken privately with Special Counsel Robert Mueller III to work out the parameters for his testimony to ensure there are no legal entanglements as a result of his public account, a source said. Comey will likely sit down with Mueller, a longtime colleague at the Justice Department, for a formal interview only after his public testimony.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/politics/fbi-comey-testimony/

[workinclasszero]

1. Bring it on!

[Orrex]

2. When did CNN have time to report on this?

I figured that they'd be running the Kathy Griffin story to the exclusion of all else.

[MFM008]

6. You win today's DU. Internet.

Exactly.

[underpants]

3. Yes!

[uponit7771]

8. +1

[MedusaX]

4. Pressure to end probe aka abuse of power aka grounds for impeachment...

In House & Senate Conviction

allows all possible pending RICO indictments to be unsealed/warrants served...

One simultaneous shock & awe
demonstration of the power of law...

Maybe kick off the proceedings with Ryan & McConnells indictments revealed...
Just to set the stage...

All house KGOP members that are too chicken shit to vote for impeachment can stay home...

So long as there is a quorum present in the House,
a simple majority "aye" of those present should do.....

As for conviction in the Senate....
2/3 should be attainable....

[mdbl]

15. there are only a few repuglicans with integrity

it may take more pressure from actual people showing up where these chicken shits live.

[Bettie]

22. Wait, there are a few Republicans with integrity?

Where are they, because from what I've seen, they all toe the party line pretty much all the time.

And right now this party line is: Suck it, we own everything so nothing illegal that our side does matters.

[Ilsa]

18. The chickens need to get flat tires that morning, or

get lost on the Metro, or call in with a tummy ache. Whatever it takes.

[Cyrusvirus]

5. Even if he has Donald on video tape admitting he's firing Comey if he doesn't drop the investigation

Trump will go largely unscathed and remain president. I wouldn't even be surprised if he gets re"elected" after this and all future bombshells given how nothing has slowed him down.

[LBM20]

17. Why are some folks seemingly addicted to the white flag?

[Bettie]

23. It's not a white flag

it is despair and disbelief.

If anyone with a D after their name had done just one of the things this asshole has, they'd be long gone; ditched by our own party.

This guy gets fluffed daily by everyone from the media to every Republican congresscritter out there.

From what we've seen, it doesn't matter what he does, no one who currently has any power to do anything about it cares at all, as long as they get what they want.

[Cyrusvirus]

26. No flag from me

I'll crawl through a forest fire to vote for the Dem down ticket, no matter what.

[Kaleva]

20. His agenda is stuck in the mud.

He can't find people willing to take on key positions such as FBI Director. His poll numbers keep dropping, even amongst his base. Key inititives are tied up in Congress or the courts. He is very much like a worn out, lame duck president who has long ago expended all his political capital .

[mcar]

7. Oh yeah

[onetexan]

9. i hope they have Comey well guarded round the clock

at least till he testifies.

[malaise]

10. Oh Yes

Rec

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Apparently "Covfefe" means "Ah, F--K, I'm going to jail!"

C O V F E F E !!!

[TheFrenchRazor]

12. Cons won't care; it's party over country, all the time. nt

[wiggs]

13. Related: Mensch reports that David Nunes, CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE

INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE investigating the Trump/Russia issue, has had his top secret security clearance revoked. If true (yet to see it on another site) this had to be a top story and an embarrassing one for the House and WH. Unprecedented?

Related to obstruction of justice, I bet. Trump fired Comey and also torpedoed the house inquiry by turning Nunes. Allegedly.

Link for those interested (many are not): https://patribotics.blog/

[L. Coyote]

14. Add another conspirator to the obstruction of justice charges.

This should mean he will lose his position of deciding when the committee can issue subpoenas.

Trump's New Impeachable Offenses: Obstruction of Justice, Conspiracy, Abuse of Power

There is a pattern of criminal acts to obfuscate the same facts, meetings with Russians. Trump is the central person in a wide conspiracy.

[waddirum]

21. Devin Nunes nt

[berksdem]

16. I want to be excited

But this has flop all over it. Repubs won't do anything and his nut bag base won't give a shit. It will amount to nothing...

[blue neen]

19. This is going to be an interesting week.

...looking forward to seeing and hearing Comey's testimony.

[The_jackalope]

24. And Mike Rogers testifies on Wednesday

Probably confirming that Trump pressured him to make untrue public statements.

It's going to be a pulse-quickening week. I haven't felt this kind of excitement since 1973!

[JoeStuckInOH]

25. +1 for the great news... -1 for the use of an inferior popcorn meme. nt