NYT interview Trump suggests FBI director should, in future,report directly to him,not AG or congres

[sunonmars]

Stay tuned for shit to fly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html

[deminks]

1. Wednesday Night Massacre?

WTF - I went to make dinner and came back to this.

[sunonmars]

2. Threatening to fire Mueller if M looks into Junior's or Kushner's finances is a dead giveaway

The jig is up.....

[sharedvalues]

3. Pliant NYT printing his every lie verbatim. No fact-checking?

[riversedge]

7. This is the transcript. I imagine there will be lots of fact checking soon.

[sharedvalues]

10. I know. I'm just annoyed about the Haberman article that goes along with this.

Still I wish the NYT would even fact check his transcripts.

The only power that 45 has left is the power of propaganda - the ability to lie freely and have those lies get amplified by the press. And he's good at it.
We have signs of the press pushing back on those lies (the MSNBC chyrons on the holocaust, for example) but that pushback is few and far between. And Maggie Haberman at the NYT is about as pliant a Trump-repeater as there is.

[Zoonart]

4. OMFG He needs to be gone...

...right now.

[wishstar]

5. The new FBI guy Christopher Wray told Senate he would not meet with or report to Trump

when they asked him specifically in his confirmation hearing

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. They say anything at their confirmation hearings, then do the opposite. There's no recourse

The Attorney General very plainly committed perjury during his confirmation hearing, and nothing has come of it. We are close to complete dictatorship here.

[sharedvalues]

12. Sessions should be impeached for lying, not just recused.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Mueller should immediately request permission from Rosenstein to empanel a grand jury

[PJMcK]

13. What makes you think he hasn't done so?

Given the investigative powers that Mr. Mueller has at his disposal, don't you think he has already issued numerous subpoenas and demands for documents and testimony? After all, Grand Jury proceedings are secret and the public has no right to know about them.

In fact, Mr. Mueller can access personal information about Trump, (like, his tax returns), and Trump wouldn't even know about it because the IRS would not be required to inform Trump of the examination.

I have an barely founded and meagerly rational trust in Robert Mueller III. He could be our bulwark against tyranny.

[sunonmars]

9. Does he think people will buy this bullshit?

Link to tweet

[spanone]

11. Dictator Don....owner of the u.s.a.

[NCjack]

14. In Hell, J. Edgar Hoover turned his face toward Earth and muttered

"Oh yeah! Finally, they see my way was right."

[matt819]

15. Wow

He sounds like the traitorous use he is