Trump pressures House Intelligence Committee to probe the Clintons ties to Russia, not his
Source: MSN/Washington Post
President Trump sought Monday to pressure the House committee investigating Russias interference in the 2016 U.S. election, arguing that the panel should be probing Bill and Hillary Clintons ties to the country instead of those of his own campaign advisers.
In a pair of evening tweets, Trump wrote that the Trump Russia story is a hoax and listed a string of financial and other connections the Clintons have had over the years with Russia. He asked why the House Intelligence Committee is not investigating the former president and former secretary of state.
Trumps tweets come just hours after the White House announced that Jared Kushner, the presidents son-in-law and senior adviser, had agreed to be questioned by the House Intelligence Committee as part of its broad inquiry into Russian election interference. The committee is expected to ask Kushner about his communications with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak as well as with the chief executive of a Russian state-owned bank.
The House panel is chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), a close Trump ally and a leader of his presidential transition team. Democrats are calling on Nunes to be recused from overseeing what is supposed to be an independent congressional investigation into Russian interference in the election, though Nunes on Monday denied any wrongdoing and said he would not step down.
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Cary
(11,746 posts)mpcamb
(2,855 posts)LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)Let's get an independent investigation/prosecutor and get the ball rolling.
hibbing
(10,076 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Better headline: "Trump feeling heat over Russia; tries to distract attention by bringing up predecessors out of the blue"
see Lakoff
riversedge
(69,721 posts)2naSalit
(86,050 posts)call the guys in the white suits!
tenorly
(2,037 posts)They will brazenly accuse their opponents of their own misdeeds, truth be damned.
Combine this shamelessness with mouthpieces like Faux News, and the effect can be devastating to the body politic.
brer cat
(24,401 posts)tenorly
(2,037 posts)A karmic challenge, you think?
kyburbonkid
(251 posts)Such a russian luven looser. A little puttin for the fun of it.
Juliusseizure
(562 posts)as "that fuckhead" or "the dipshit."
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)The guy does not know when to keep his damn trap shit!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)moonscape
(4,664 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)at all
C_U_L8R
(44,892 posts)so transparent, so pathetic.
MFM008
(19,776 posts)On his icy golden toilet, cycling like Lance Armstrong (between bipolar poles) blithering, and lying again.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Donnie Dipstick is now wanting Gowdy and Chaffetz to bail his sick ass out. Must have been breaking news at Infowars or his buddy at the Inquirer.
BTW,did we ever find those 22 million missing e-mails from the Bush theft machine.
murielm99
(30,656 posts)tapped him. Now this? It won't work, either.
What a sad, sick clown of a man.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)For the good of the country, his entire administration needs to go away.
videohead5
(2,150 posts)To all of this why does Trump seem really worried?
subterranean
(3,427 posts)But only one of them is now president of the United States, and suspected of conspiring with Russia to influence the election. That's the issue here, Donny.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)This is an obvious attempt by desperate individuals.
We must onto the truth.
Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)And why won't they release their tax returns? Plus, the way they destroyed Atlantic City, by taking zillions in subsidies then bankrupting the subsidized businesses, throwing thousands of citizens out of work and torpedoing the economy -- that needs to be looked into, too.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)who worked on their house too.
Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)Those are completely beyond the pale, too.
jpak
(41,741 posts)yup
bucolic_frolic
(42,670 posts)Using tweets for projection and accusation of (former) opponents is an attempt
to obstruct any investigation
Hugin
(32,778 posts)Now the Right Wing Wurlitzer is in full throated action on Fox News and the likes pushing a remote connection between Podesta and some Russian Uranium deal.
In reality, who knows... Since it happened in 2011 this deal may have been part of the set-up for the election manipulation racket and money laundering put in place, just in case they got caught. Plan B, if you will.
However, once the Pubes get started muddying the waters, it will be so much harder to gain public support against the real GrOPper/Kremlin threat.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)From Comey's intelligence hearing, forces behind the scene have been at this for quite some time. How do you know with sensitive information like this, that democrats aren't doing anything? Because it is not on cnn?
There is bipartisan cooperation on this. This isn't going to go away.
I am pretty sure a whole lot of things are being pushed and said behind the scene. We only see what is allowed to be seen....
Buckle up. It just barely started.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)I hope the mothertrucker goes to jail....
bobGandolf
(871 posts)then he should prove it by showing his tax returns. All his attempts to change the topic of discussion with his tweet noise have failed so far.