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Stuart G

(38,403 posts)
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 05:23 PM Mar 2017

Trump Russia Story Has Only Begun to Explode

Source: Huff Post

Not since Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal has an investigative hearing made it so clear that a presidency was in serious legal peril.
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By Howard Fineman
Published 3:10 pm ET

WASHINGTON ― Let’s step back for a minute and consider again what we saw Monday in a hearing room of the U.S. House.

The director of the FBI, with the director of the National Security Agency agreeing at his side, in effect called the president of the United States a liar ― and, oh, by the way, the president’s 2016 campaign indeed is under investigation for allegedly having secretly teamed up with Russia to win the election.

After two months of Donald J. Trump’s presidency and more than a year of his campaign, our political senses are so dulled by tumult that we can barely recognize history when we see it. Make no mistake. Monday’s hearing was all but unprecedented.

Not since a White House aide named Alexander Butterfield told the Watergate committee in 1973 that President Richard Nixon had bugged his own Oval Office has an investigative hearing made it so clear that a presidency was in serious legal jeopardy.

Now we know for sure that, while no one “tapped” Trump’s phones, his campaign circle is in the gunsights of the FBI. The issue is whether Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose interference in the 2016 election is now an accepted fact, tried to rig the outcome with the knowledge or collusion of Team Trump.

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I hope Howard Fineman is correct in this analysis ....If he is, then this is it for Drumpf



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-russia-comey_us_58d01dd6e4b0be71dcf6e972?6o6&

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Trump Russia Story Has Only Begun to Explode (Original Post) Stuart G Mar 2017 OP
MY political senses aren't dulled furtheradu Mar 2017 #1
Follow the money. tazkcmo Mar 2017 #2
Drip, Drip, Drip....Oil Field Worth Trillions... Stuart G Mar 2017 #3

furtheradu

(1,865 posts)
1. MY political senses aren't dulled
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 05:30 PM
Mar 2017

I am on full alert.
Today was awwwsome, for ME.
Yes, the situation is seriously threatening, but the TRUTH is being confirmed, even republikers have to own up to it. FINALLY.

tazkcmo

(7,298 posts)
2. Follow the money.
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 05:41 PM
Mar 2017

Or in this case, oil. A 19.5% share of an oil field worth trillions. Drip drip drip

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rosneft-privatisation-insight-idUSKBN1582OH

Today was the first day I've heard the mention of Rosneft by our investigating members of Congress. I look forward to the average American hearing more and more about it.

Stuart G

(38,403 posts)
3. Drip, Drip, Drip....Oil Field Worth Trillions...
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 05:45 PM
Mar 2017

Flynn....Drip drip drip
FBI investigating Trump's political campaign....drip, drip
Trump a psychological liar..drip drip
so much..and more to come....drip drip

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