Trump: Ask Yates about leaks of classified information

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 05/08/17 08:29 AM EDT

President Trump on Monday called for his former acting attorney general to answer questions about how classified information was leaked to newspapers.

"Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council," the president tweeted Monday.

Link to tweet

Anticipation is high ahead of testimony Monday before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee from Sally Yates.

Yates, who was fired by Trump after her refusal to back his controversial immigration order, is expected to give her account of the warnings she gave to the White House regarding former national security adviser Michael Flynn's contacts with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
Yates reportedly told the White House that Flynn might have misled the administration about the content of his communications with Sergey Kislyak.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/332333-trump-ask-yates-if-she-knows-if-she-knows-how-classified-information

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Ask tRump under oath about his team copying classified emergency plans at secure facility. . nt

[Bigredhunk]

2. -

Nervous douchenozzle?

[Achilleaze]

3. Ask the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief* under oath about his debts

to the evil empire** Russian mob, and why he will not lift a finger to defend America against the Acts of War*** russia is perpetrating on our nation.

* Comrade Casino (republican "family-values" role model)
** per ronald reagan
*** per dick chencey

[George II]

5. Not only that, but he owes the Bank of China something like $500 million!

[yallerdawg]

4. Christ - this jackass is so vile and disgusting.

He has no concept of constitutional separation of powers.

It's not a dictatorship, you didn't flounder into office by a quirk to be elected emperor or king.

You're supposed to be a high-ranking public servant! Do your job, and let the other 2 branches do theirs!

[Liberalagogo]

6. Loved Brian Scully's response:

Brian Scully
✔
@brianscully

@realDonaldTrump It's COUNSEL, you fucking dumbshit.
7:38 AM - 8 May 2017

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[L. Coyote]

10. Trump can't spell. Obviously, this is one of his actual tweets, not staff.

Link to tweet

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[bucolic_frolic]

7. Nice how he directs the world to do things

Russia! Hack my opponent

Congress: interrogate her!

[L. Coyote]

9. Trump: Ask Yates who proved we were lying.

The problem isn't what they did wrong, the problem is the person who revealed they did wrong!

Trump tried to block Sally Yates from testifying tomorrow. #TrumpRussia

Link to tweet

[briv1016]

21. How much you wanna bet that one of the first Republicans to speak is going to "advise" her of this?

[Judi Lynn]

11. The president is threatening a witness: CNN analyst slams Trumps disturbing Sally Yates tweets

BRAD REED
08 MAY 2017 AT 10:01 ET


President Donald Trump has drawn a lot of criticism for his decision to lash out at former acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday, just hours before she was scheduled to testify about former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Appearing on CNN to talk about the president’s tweet — in which he said that someone should “ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council (sic)” — legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said that Trump’s behavior crosses the line of what we consider to be normal behavior for a politician in the United States.

“It just shows how much the norms of behavior have changed,” Toobin said. “The idea of the President of the United States essentially threatening a witness, he’s basically accusing her of leaking, we have never had that before. We’ve never had presidents who did this kind of thing. The idea that the president — the guy who’s in charge of the Justice Department — is threatening a witness is really kind of disturbing.”

Yates was fired from her role as acting attorney general earlier this year after she refused to enforce the administration’s proposed travel ban. She will reportedly testify on Monday afternoon that she gave the Trump administration warnings about Flynn possibly being compromised by the Russian government.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/the-president-is-threatening-a-witness-cnn-analyst-slams-trumps-disturbing-sally-yates-tweets/

[Judi Lynn]

12. Former CIA agent mocks Trumps Sally Yates tweets: The president is a little confused this morning

Sarah K. Burris SARAH K. BURRIS
08 MAY 2017 AT 09:05 ET


President Donald Trump was up early tweeting Monday, defending his close friend and former national security adviser retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

CNN’s David Gregory was shocked Trump took to Twitter to defend Flynn and blame former President Barack Obama for giving Flynn security clearance.

But it was former CIA agent Phil Mudd that hammered Trump on his lack of basic knowledge on the role of the president and the White House.

“The president is a little confused this morning, he’s giving me some humor at 5:00 a.m. pacific time,” Mudd said of Trump’s tweet. “The White House doesn’t give security clearances. Individual agencies give security clearance…He doesn’t have any for the security clearance. As you’re suggesting, the issue here is whether the [Trump] White House had an ethics process for an incoming official. Typically, what you would do is say list your sources of income, list what you have been doing over the last year, list conversations you’re having about representative employment so you would know when you’re sitting down for a sensitive conversation in the White House about sanctions whether somebody around the table took money from Russia. There was an ethics conversation that the White House should have started.”

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/former-cia-agent-schools-trump-on-role-of-presidency-the-white-house-doesnt-give-out-security-clearance/

[bluestarone]

13. YOUR TURN IS

COMING ASSHOLE!

[L. Coyote]

14. And it is gone, disappeared. But it was screen captured first. Paste this in the OP.

Last edited Mon May 8, 2017, 05:55 PM - Edit history (1)

[BumRushDaShow]

16. It reappeared within the past 15 minutes with the corrected spelling

Link to tweet

[L. Coyote]

17. And the replies are delicious.

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

18. The little video on the reply tweet is hilarious!

[Kali]

20. LOL

[Kali]

19. Really? Deleted?

edit - oops see the other posts now

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Looks like the tweet got deleted

(I had brought up the OP in a tab about 30 minutes ago and finally came back to it and saw the embedded tweet but then after refreshing to see other comments, the tweet was gone. Clicking on the tweet link takes you to a "Sorry, that page doesn't exist" page)

Apparently it was re-tweeted with the correct spelling for "Counsel" about 15 minutes ago from my post!!