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Priebus gave notes to investigation re comey firing. - 1/4/2018 7:03:16 PM

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Obstruction Inquiry Shows Trump’s Struggle to Keep Grip on Russia Investigation

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/us/politics/trump-sessions-russia-mcgahn.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

WASHINGTON — President Trump gave firm instructions in March to the White House’s top lawyer: stop the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, from recusing himself in the Justice Department’s investigation into whether Mr. Trump’s associates had helped a Russian campaign to disrupt the 2016 election.

Public pressure was building for Mr. Sessions, who had been a senior member of the Trump campaign, to step aside. But the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, carried out the president’s orders and lobbied Mr. Sessions to remain in charge of the inquiry, according to two people with knowledge of the episode.

Mr. McGahn was unsuccessful, and the president erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials, saying he needed his attorney general to protect him. Mr. Trump said he had expected his top law enforcement official to safeguard him the way he believed Robert F. Kennedy, as attorney general, had done for his brother John F. Kennedy and Eric H. Holder Jr. had for Barack Obama.

Mr. Trump then asked, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” He was referring to his former personal lawyer and fixer, who had been Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s top aide during the investigations into communist activity in the 1950s and died in 1986.

The lobbying of Mr. Sessions is one of several previously unreported episodes that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has learned about as he investigates whether Mr. Trump obstructed the F.B.I.’s Russia inquiry. The events occurred during a two-month period — from when Mr. Sessions recused himself in March until the appointment of Mr. Mueller in May — when Mr. Trump believed he was losing control over the investigation.

Among the other episodes, Mr. Trump described the Russia investigation as “fabricated and politically motivated” in a letter that he intended to send to the F.B.I. director at the time, James B. Comey, but that White House aides stopped him from sending. Mr. Mueller has also substantiated claims that Mr. Comey made in a series of memos describing troubling interactions with the president before he was fired in May.

The special counsel has received handwritten notes from Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, showing that Mr. Trump talked to Mr. Priebus about how he had called Mr. Comey to urge him to say publicly that he was not under investigation. The president’s determination to fire Mr. Comey even led one White House lawyer to take the extraordinary step of misleading Mr. Trump about whether he had the authority to remove him.

The New York Times has also learned that four days before Mr. Comey was fired, one of Mr. Sessions’s aides asked a congressional staff member whether he had damaging information about Mr. Comey, part of an apparent effort to undermine the F.B.I. director. It was not clear whether Mr. Mueller’s investigators knew about this episode.

Mr. Mueller has also been examining a false statement that the president dictated on Air Force One in July in response to an article in The Times about a meeting that Trump campaign officials had with Russians in 2016. A new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff, says that the president’s lawyers believed that the statement was “an explicit attempt to throw sand into the investigation’s gears,” and that it led one of Mr. Trump’s spokesmen to quit because he believed it was obstruction of justice.

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RE: Priebus gave notes to investigation re comey firing. - 1/4/2018 7:57:46 PM

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This is why I'm only binge watching comedies. Too much drama and too many cliffhangers in reality.

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RE: Priebus gave notes to investigation re comey firing. - 1/4/2018 8:03:26 PM

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Im binge watching the "borgia" on netflix...
history repeats itself.

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RE: Priebus gave notes to investigation re comey firing. - 1/4/2018 8:07:21 PM

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Duh. That's why I'm watching the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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RE: Priebus gave notes to investigation re comey firing. - 1/4/2018 8:12:13 PM

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I rarely do comedies these days
except US politics

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RE: Priebus gave notes to investigation re comey firing. - 1/5/2018 3:10:17 AM

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

I rarely do comedies these days
except US politics

Yep. As comedies go, it's hard to beat the White House Follies isn't it?

It has everything - a wealthy avaricious family whose members ceaselessly scheme against each other while robbing the country blind, a cast of mendacious sycophants as the White House staff, evil hypocritical and self serving politicians and rapacious Machiavellian Russians populating the fringes.

Above all the stars of the show themselves - the Trump family. The Brady Bunch they certainly ain't! Who could have imagined the utterly amoral ginger patriarch and his ridiculous comb over, whose ego knows no bounds, a pathological liar with an alley cat's gutter cunning, the duplicitous businessman ripping off all and anyone stupid or naive enough to enter into dealings with him - the banks, the IRS, his shareholders, other businesses, his clients, the Govt, no one gets spared - his trophy wife, dutifully counting the days until she can divorce the monster and get her life back, the idiot sons lurching from one self imposed disaster to the next, the beautiful ambitious daughter with her ruthless equally ambitious conniving so so slick husband, all operating against dark hints of incest and rape, while flirting with neo Nazis anti-Semites and an assortment of racist filth ?

The first season - with its constant firings of staff, revelations of underhand dealings, shady meetings with dubious foreigners, chaotic legislative failure after failure, sexual indiscretions, incessant attacks on the institutions of democracy, ongoing war with the media, the deployment of the brilliant 'fake news' strategy - was an absolute riot from start to finish, with viewers in stitches, leaving them wondering: 'how could they possibly top an opening season like that'?

Stay glued to your seats and your sets folks! Don't you dare change channels! Season #2 promises to be even zanier, funnier, more devious, with more shocks and surprises than the first.

Five Stars *****

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RE: Priebus gave notes to investigation re comey firing. - 1/5/2018 4:18:11 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

I rarely do comedies these days
except US politics

Yep. As comedies go, it's hard to beat the White House Follies isn't it?

It has everything - a wealthy avaricious family whose members ceaselessly scheme against each other while robbing the country blind, a cast of mendacious sycophants as the White House staff, evil hypocritical and self serving politicians and rapacious Machiavellian Russians populating the fringes.

Above all the stars of the show themselves - the Trump family. The Brady Bunch they certainly ain't! Who could have imagined the utterly amoral ginger patriarch and his ridiculous comb over, whose ego knows no bounds, a pathological liar with an alley cat's gutter cunning, the duplicitous businessman ripping off all and anyone stupid or naive enough to enter into dealings with him - the banks, the IRS, his shareholders, other businesses, his clients, the Govt, no one gets spared - his trophy wife, dutifully counting the days until she can divorce the monster and get her life back, the idiot sons lurching from one self imposed disaster to the next, the beautiful ambitious daughter with her ruthless equally ambitious conniving so so slick husband, all operating against dark hints of incest and rape, while flirting with neo Nazis anti-Semites and an assortment of racist filth ?

The first season - with its constant firings of staff, revelations of underhand dealings, shady meetings with dubious foreigners, chaotic legislative failure after failure, sexual indiscretions, incessant attacks on the institutions of democracy, ongoing war with the media, the deployment of the brilliant 'fake news' strategy - was an absolute riot from start to finish, with viewers in stitches, leaving them wondering: 'how could they possibly top an opening season like that'?

Stay glued to your seats and your sets folks! Don't you dare change channels! Season #2 promises to be even zanier, funnier, more devious, with more shocks and surprises than the first.

Five Stars *****

Excellent review but like all continuing dramedies, their is need to find a character(s) that the audience will to take into their confidence let's say, what TV land tells us, is finding somebody, anybody, they...can root for.

So a short stint will be its fate as...there is nobody.

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