Lieberman emerges as front-runner for FBI post
Source: Politico
Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee, is the front-runner to be named FBI director, according to several White House officials and advisers.
Senior administration officials have told others in the last 12 hours that Trump is expected to pick Lieberman to replace FBI director James Comey, who was abruptly fired by Trump last week.
A person familiar with Wednesdays meeting said Trump bonded with Lieberman, and the president left leaning towards the former Connecticut senator, who retired in 2013. Trump has not signaled otherwise that anyone else is the favorite, aides said, and has told one adviser he wants to make an announcement before he leaves Friday on his first foreign trip.
A White House spokesman declined to comment.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/joe-lieberman-fbi-frontrunner-238563
benpollard
(199 posts)I wouldn't trust him to run a lemonade stand.
Qutzupalotl
(14,285 posts)tinrobot
(10,883 posts)Having left the Senate in 2013, Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-Independent, is now senior counsel at the firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres and Friedman, which has offices in nine cities.
The firm has represented Trump in matters for years. Last October, Marc Kasowitz, a partner at the firm, threatened The New York Times with legal action after the newspaper published pages from Trumps 1995 income tax return. Later that month, Kasowitz wrote a letter to Times demanding the retraction of an article about two women who claimed Trump had touched them inappropriately. The Times did not retract the article.
http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director-joe-lieberman-trump-kasowitz-611182
enough
(13,254 posts)One older story about it, from January.
cstanleytech
(26,220 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,163 posts)Ageist?
I'm older than all of them, but believe most of them, including 45, are past their prime.
tinrobot
(10,883 posts)He's hardly a non-partisan choice.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)cstanleytech
(26,220 posts)Ronan the Accuser
(8 posts)or there'd be SPCA on the line for you...
TygrBright
(20,753 posts)gibraltar72
(7,498 posts)Loyal!
wishstar
(5,267 posts)Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Just how many clowns can you get in a clown car anyway?
The Dave Clarke thing is of far more concern that Joe L., he has a pretty big clown nose, and from the looks of his asshat, he is a rodeo clown...
He will surely have his turn in the barrel!
That particular rodeo clown was pals with and in Russia!
I am surprised that he doesn't have the Red Sickle and Hammer ( Серп и молот ) on his toy soldier uniform coat!
Jarqui
(10,119 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)he is just another fascist pig.
putitinD
(1,551 posts)tblue37
(65,212 posts)dalton99a
(81,386 posts)No one should ever forget that
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)a politician running the FBI,,,,,,, this has a sink to it!
Little Star
(17,055 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)ButSeeYa
(273 posts)The guy who is currently under investigation by the FBI gets to appoint a new FBI Director? What a country.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)But honestly, although I'm no Lieberman fan, I didn't think he'd stoop THAT low. And bonding with Dump is as low as it gets.
Dump wants a sycophant as FBI director, and apparently Lieberman is one.
bluestarone
(16,851 posts)snake for the pit 4 sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Would ANYONE take this wimpy has-been seriously?
KT2000
(20,567 posts)ever since he made his grand entrance into the Dem convention as VP candidate while Stephen Hawking was speaking - another narcissist. A creep in other respects too.
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)Surprising.
Tell Donald he should get a Grizzly Momma, will ya?
apnu
(8,749 posts)ancianita
(35,926 posts)he can find out, then give the high sign when it's time for "the family" to worry.
BarbD
(1,192 posts)Trump has bullied and run roughshod so often that he simply does not know how to be conciliatory. What planet is he on if he thinks the Democrats would be happy with Lieberman?
mdbl
(4,973 posts)it's the only thing twump seems to be able to do other than tweeting like an obstinate 12 year old.