Trump ally Graham will subpoena McCabe and Rosenstein over 'coup'
Source: The GuardianSenate judiciary chair furious over 25th amendment claims
The Threat: McCabe FBI memoir aims at mob boss Trump
Martin Pengelly in New York
@MartinPengelly
Sun 17 Feb 2019 08.54 EST
Trump ally Lindsey Graham has promised a Senate investigation into claims senior justice department officials discussed invoking the 25th amendment and removing the president from power.
Theres an allegation by the acting FBI director at the time that the deputy attorney general was basically trying to do an administrative coup, the South Carolina senator, the chair of the Senate judiciary committee, told CBS Face the Nation on Sunday.
[To] take the president down to the 25th amendment process. The deputy attorney general denies it. I promise your viewers the following, that we will have a hearing about whos telling the truth.
The acting FBI director referred to is Andrew McCabe. He told CBS about the discussions, which reportedly followed Trumps firing of FBI director James Comey in May 2017, in an interview this week to promote his new book. Trump fired McCabe in March 2018, just short of his intended retirement.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/17/trump-ally-graham-will-subpoena-mccabe-and-rosenstein-over-coup
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)more Russia information will come out not in t-rump's favor.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)Rev up those cameras Fox
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)All the rest of us see it for what it is: an ongoing criminal investigation in which an abundance of reported and known fact points directly at the TV host being a co-conspirator to dozens upon dozens of crimes.
Graham is simply applying misdirection for the hapless audience. To everyone else, he's a compromised has-been who will never be able to look fellow Senators in the eyes again.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,423 posts)vs. the nitwit repug Senators who will conduct the witchhunt. Truth is an easy story to tell.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)bites you on your ass.
NotAPuppet
(326 posts)should subpoena Graham, Nunes, and the rest of Trumps criminal gang in response.
Botany
(70,504 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 17, 2019, 04:06 PM - Edit history (1)
Crook, OK the cameras have me robbing the bank, I was caught w/the money,
and the dye pack exploded in my trunk but the cop who arrested me used to be
my neighbor as a kid and he used to cut through our back yard on the way to
school.
Autumn
(45,082 posts)William Seger
(10,778 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Proceed.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Trumpy took over the Executive Branch and his Russian partners bribed the GOP leadership into silence/blackmail, while Putin is the real Commander-in-Chief. Trumpy is just a useful idiot.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)2naSalit
(86,609 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)a more deserving little ass-kisser. There was a time when Graham had the same opinion of tRump as we did. Then one golf game later, he completely turned around. I wonder what the Russians have on him? I hope we all find out SOON. He is terrified it will be exposed.
2naSalit
(86,609 posts)He's afraid of prison or polonium tea.
I think if he demands testimony from those two, they will expose everything. I think that everyone called to testify in either the House or Senate will start putting it out there since Barr is likely to try and conceal anything damning and is probably writing up pardons as we speak.
EleanorR
(2,391 posts)Can't seize each extra bit of power, plus keep your fan boys and girls defending you, if there aren't enemies out to get you.
bluestarone
(16,940 posts)Have you received any RUSSIAN money? How much? WHEN?
Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)He was never anything but a mental midget in the first place, but managed to get lots of national press by attaching himself like a leach to someone more prominent. With McGrumpy gone he had to find a new host to suck on. The one with the highest profile. The press that they claim to hate is their main ally. No matter how silly they act they get airtime and page one. In my mind, all these "conservative" main message is the same one as Bilbo's was:racism moved into the twenty first century disguised by cross, flag, and Bible. They just dropped the hood and the robe and used pro life as a Mother Hubbard.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Little Lindsays complete sellout to Trumpsky will erase any doubt that he places Fatso above the rule of law. Hes a fascist imperial sycophant.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Retaliation because he wrote his book and was speaking out against him? Criminalize the opposition, just like putin did in russia also.
Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)WTF. How about the lurch toward total and complete Autocracy that the Idiot In Chief is promulgating along with the rest of his loyal band of traitorous power hungry minions? A coup? Really? A move to save our country from a foreign agent in the Oval Office? Thats a coup?
Fuck you Graham, and when the dust hopefully settles around this sad chapter in American history, I can only hope that you get dragged out with the manure thats left.
As much as I choose not to have the NSA climbing up my ass, perhaps a coup is whats needed to save this country from Moscow in the White House.
SunSeeker
(51,554 posts)bluestarone
(16,940 posts)If they are THAT DUMB! THIS will not be good for them!!
Marcuse
(7,480 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,692 posts)RockRaven
(14,966 posts)to want to give Dem Senators a chance to ask this guy questions under oath on national TV...
Mr. Frost
(75 posts)Make sure there is a full proof contingency plan in place in case the worst happens.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)For the Senate the new Nunes. Both will be facing a judge before this is all over, and be looking at time behind bars.