Donald Trump asked two top intelligence officials to push back against former FBI Director James Comey’s revelation of an ongoing investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives, the Washington Post reports.
Trump appealed to both Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and director of the National Security Agency Admiral Michael Rogers, asking them to publicly deny any evidence linking the Trump campaign to Russian officials. According to the Washington Post, Coats and Rogers refused Trump’s request. One senior intelligence official said Trump intended to “muddy the waters” about the FBI investigation.
“The problem wasn’t so much asking them to issue statements, it was asking them to issue false statements about an ongoing investigation,” a former senior intelligence official told the Post.
An internal memo written by a senior NSA official documented Trump’s request to Rogers, according to the Post. One official said that memo—and others like it—could be obtained by Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who was tapped last week to head the Russia investigation.
“The White House does not confirm or deny unsubstantiated claims based on illegal leaks from anonymous individuals,” a White House spokesperson said in response to the report. “The president will continue to focus on his agenda that he was elected to pursue by the American people.”
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How much more can we take? Everyday it’s something new with this fraud.
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Former CIA Agent Phil Mudd: ‘Trey Gowdy needs to have his a*s kicked’
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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/867123839821651971
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https://twitter.com/Evan_Rosenfeld/status/867122928973893632
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/867121431557132289
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POW!
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Trey Gowdy got his ass handed to him by John Brennan. Brennan was not having it. Not today, Satan!
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Fox viewers won’t know very much, if anything, about the recent series of scandals that have been rolling out of the WH because Hannity has set the agenda, and that agenda is to push the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. So far, Newt Gingrich and Roger Stone have each taken a turn at playing “point man” to get the ball rolling. When the sh*t hits the fan, right-wingers going to be very surprised, and I’m going to be ROTFLMBO because of their stupidity and gullibility.
Them fools done bought a d*mn “pig in a poke” and don’t even know it.
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Lord.