Trump Fires FBI Director Comey

[Wyrt]

So he worships at the Altar of Alex Jones?

That would explain it.

He is basically a more mainstream version of Alex Jones.

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Also, Putin demanded the meeting.

When Daddy Putin wants something his Cockholster obeys.

[Gref]

why the fuck you wouldn't let your own media into your own white house. and russians got inside? sweet jesus on a crutch.

[Ryk]

Also, Putin demanded the meeting.

I'm as anti-Trump as anyone, but unless I missed something that link states the meeting was requested, not demanded, by Putin.

[Breccia]

why the fuck you wouldn't let your own media into your own white house. and russians got inside? sweet jesus on a crutch.

Actually that's easy.
Russian media is predominantly state-run. American is not.
Russia tells their media what they can, and can't, print. Trump cannot.
Russia is interested in "negotiation" in the sense that they want more control of Syria, more control of Arctic oil, a better trade situation with Iran and easement of sanctions for flat-out conquering part of Ukraine with soldiers out of uniform. The US, for the most part, is not willing to "negotiate" in this sense.
Russia is interested in telling, nay, proving to its people that Trump is Russia's cock holster. Trump seems less than thrilled with the topic.
Oh, and there's Tillerson and Exxon, too. They're not ready to make that public yet.

[Surfd]

why the fuck you wouldn't let your own media into your own white house. and russians got inside? sweet jesus on a crutch.

It was the "news media" which was barred, so to be accurate, there was American media there: The White House Official Press Corp guy. You know, the guy who's very lively-hood and job depend on towing the shiny orange line. Kind of bizarre that the White House released literally NOTHING from that meeting, while the Russians were tweeting photographs from it minutes after it started. But yeah, totally nothing to see there.

And before somebody points it out: The Russian Guy was their "diplomatic" equivalent to the WH press corp guy. The difference is that while the WH guy is basically just a glorified photographer, the Russian Guy is basically the equivalent of a full on reporter, since the Russian Media is state run.

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Can't be under FBI investigation if there is no FBI director

[Deleted]

Whole thing smells of left hysteria. Did Comey overstep his boundaries? Multiple times, always to serve left. He broke protocols, made press conferences about things that aren't even his business, tried to do US attorney's job. He was as corrupt as politicians can get.

He is supposed to be unbiased.

So good riddance. Now left are crying because one of theirs got sacked for not doing his job properly.

One of best parts? Shortly after Sacking Comey, the President had a scheduled meeting with a Russian Diplomat named Lavrov. The US media (all of the US media) was denied entry into that meeting. The Russian media was not.

Let that sink in for a second.

Your first source for media reporting on a meeting on American Soil, and not just any American soil, but the goddamned White House, will be foreign media.....

That sound you hear is the collective whine of every single dead president spinning in their graves like jet turbines.......

Did you even read that article? It was just one photographer, not media.

Clickbait title. There were no reporters at all. Just one photographer to make photos.

[Mormolyce]

I'm as anti-Trump as anyone, but unless I missed something that link states the meeting was requested, not demanded, by Putin.

Is there some kind of ruler I can use to determine the exact point at which a request becomes a demand?

[Deleted]

why the fuck you wouldn't let your own media into your own white house. and russians got inside? sweet jesus on a crutch.

Nope, Russian media didn't get inside either. Just one photographer to make official photos of meeting, no reporters were allowed.

Read article beyond title.

[Surfd]

Did you even read that article? It was just one photographer, not media.

Clickbait title. There were no reporters at all. Just one photographer to make photos.

Did I mention reporters? And since when are Photographers not media? Way to totally miss the fact that that Russian Photographer is part of their State Run media, so pretty much every photo he took ended up directly in some PR Spin Rag directly under Putin's thumb.

If the regular media photographers from other news organizations were denied access to the meeting, why allow the Russian Guy, being that he is functionally exactly the same?

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Nope, Russian media didn't get inside either. Just one photographer to make official photos of meeting, no reporters were allowed.

Read article beyond title.

But the Russians, who have a largely state-run media, brought their own press contingent in the form of an official photographer. They quickly filled the vacuum with their own pictures of the meeting with Mr. Trump, Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and Sergey I. Kislyak, Moscow’s ambassador to the United States.

Within minutes of the meeting, the Foreign Ministry had posted photographs on Twitter of Mr. Trump and Mr. Lavrov smiling and shaking hands. The Russian embassy posted images of the president grinning and gripping hands with the ambassador. Tass, Russia’s official news agency, released more photographs of the three men laughing together in the Oval Office.

The White House released nothing.

Maybe you should take your own advice, as you pretty clearly didn't read the article at all. And if you did, then I pity your reading comprehension and critical thinking skills if your takeaway was "this is all good".

[Breccia]

Nope, Russian media didn't get inside either. Just one photographer to make official photos of meeting, no reporters were allowed.

Except for the tweeting by Russian sources the entire time keeping a constant commentary.

"But Breccia! That was the official Kremlin twitter account, not the Russian press!"

*ahem*

State-run media.

[Mormolyce]

I mean yeah it was a closed-door meeting, but his door is always open to Putin. Particularly the back one.

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Except for the tweeting by Russian sources the entire time keeping a constant commentary.

"But Breccia! That was the official Kremlin twitter account, not the Russian press!"

*ahem*

State-run media.

Did you look at those tweets? Just photos stating that meeting has started and they shook hands. Basic photo op, nothing was actually reported.

But I do see problem with it. White House photographer should have been doing photo op, not Russian photographer. However whole issue is overblown and exaggerated massively. Its just a photo op, nothing else.

edit: appears there was a White House photographer there too. So there is absolutely nothing wrong with that meeting.

[Shalcker]

why the fuck you wouldn't let your own media into your own white house. and russians got inside? sweet jesus on a crutch.

There was one Russian and one White House photographer. That's it. No other "media" was there.

Here you can see their entire "scoop":
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mfarussia/

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Except for the tweeting by Russian sources the entire time keeping a constant commentary.

"But Breccia! That was the official Kremlin twitter account, not the Russian press!"

That's not "Kremlin" account, it is Ministry of Foreign Affairs account. Same ministry Lavrov leads... you know, the guy on photos? That's his photographer doing them.

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I wonder if anyone has run that in porn by now. It would probably be unnerving but hey I am sure it's someone's fetish

Maybe the Producers of the "who's nailin Palin" series can do "hump the Trump" next.

[Azadina]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/10/politi...sia/index.html

There are two reasons why President Donald Trump fired James Comey, according to a source close to the now-former FBI director:

1. Comey never provided the President with any assurance of personal loyalty.
2. The fact that the FBI's investigation into possible Trump team collusion with Russia in the 2016 election was accelerating.

Trump actually asks people for personal assurances of loyalty to him alone? Daaaaang. I thought public officials swear to serve the Country and the Constitution, not the President.

Reminds me of some history lesson, a time long since gone, in a country where people had to swear loyalty not to the country, but to the Führer directly.

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There was one Russian and one White House photographer. That's it. No other "media" was there.

Wait, so there was a White House photographer?

That makes whole thing the perfect example of fake news.
@Breccia

[Independent voter]

Reminds me of some history lesson, a time long since gone, in a country where people had to swear loyalty not to the country, but to the Führer directly.

Well we swear loyalty to the Constitution, at least if you get a government job.

Comey was Trump's employee who signed a contract that said Comey could be fired by Trump for any reason.

Comey basically got Trump elected by reopening an investigation into Hillary's email problem 3 days before the election, no doubt giving voters some doubts about Hillary. I don't have any sympathy for Comey.

[Kasierith]

Well we swear loyalty to the Constitution, at least if you get a government job.

Comey was Trump's employee who signed a contract that said Comey could be fired by Trump for any reason.

Comey basically got Trump elected by reopening an investigation into Hillary's email problem 3 days before the election, no doubt giving voters some doubts about Hillary. I don't have any sympathy for Comey.

He also immensely overstepped into the political arena when he "cleared" Clinton of the previous investigation, essentially saying "what she did was wrong, but it wasn't illegal so there's nothing to charge her with," a negative sentiment that he was later forced to recant by being put before a Senate investigation committee under oath.

[Independent voter]

He also immensely overstepped into the political arena when he "cleared" Clinton of the previous investigation, essentially saying "what she did was wrong, but it wasn't illegal so there's nothing to charge her with," a negative sentiment that he was later forced to recant by being put before a Senate investigation committee under oath.

Comey also broke protocol by making these decisions on his own, protocol says he was supposed to ask his superiors what he should do, the attorney general and the head of the Justice Department, I think. The director of the FBI isn't supposed to pick our president.