Tag: trump
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Who Do You Meet With After Firing The FBI Director Investigating Your Collusion With Russia?
David E. Sanger and Neil MacFarquhar for the Times: Only hours after dismissing James B. Comey as director of the F.B.I., amid an investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials, the president met with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, at the White House. The Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey I.…
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A Brief History of the President’s Lies
David Leonhardt in the opinion pages: The president of the United States is lying again. He is lying about the reason he fired James Comey, the F.B.I. director. Trump claimed that he was doing so because Comey bungled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email, which meant that Comey was “not able to effectively lead the…
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Trump Fires FBI Director Running Investigation Into Trump’s Campaign
(Now former) FBI Director Comey back in March, quoted by the New York Times: Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. was “investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.” Yesterday Trump wrote this letter informing…
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“We’re not gonna be big on vacation”
Before January 20th one of our national embarrassment’s favorite things to criticize President Obama about (over Twitter) was his penchant for golfing: If Obama resigns from office NOW, thereby doing a great service to the country—I will give him free lifetime golf at any one of my courses! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10,…
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Clearly Wrong
Phillip Rucker at The Washington Post reporting on an interview with Trump: “I’ve been reading about things,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel. Trump said that after noticing an article in the New York Times and commentary by Fox anchor Bret Baier, Trump said he told himself, “Wait a minute, there’s a lot of wiretapping…