White House Asks Reports on Trump-Russia Ties to Be Knocked Down, FBI Says No

[Hindsight was 2020]

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*grabs popcorn* Boy this has got "Watergate" feelings all over it

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

This is gonna be good. Trump must be fuming.

[The_Doctor]

Did these morons not realize that this would be leaked within 20 minutes?

[ApatheticAustrian]

Did these morons not realize that this would be leaked within 20 minutes?

i guess they just don't care anymore.

[Beet]

Can you imagine if Obama "sought help" from the FBI on Clinton's investigation in the spring?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Did these morons not realize that this would be leaked within 20 minutes?

Apparently not, because fake President Pussygrabber is currently whining about FBI leaks on twitter.

I suppose that's a good thing overall. Every minute he spends not doing the job is a minute he can't spend effing up the job. (And those appear to be the only approaches he has to it.)

[Wiz in Wis]

It's as if Richard Nixon's Administration had a love-child with Jimmy Carter's Administration.

[Mr. Morden]

The White House acknowledges that this conversation took place:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/donald-trump-russia-reince-priebus-fbi-talks-james-comey

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[pbrower2a]

Ten years ago, had someone asked me whether Donald Trump or Barack Obama would have had more trouble with a combination of law enforcement, the intelligence services, and the military I would have expected more trouble in an Obama administration. Obama was, after all, more to the Left. I would have expected the trouble to have been ideological.

I would have been very wrong. So would many others. President Obama didn't have many problems. He is cautious -- cautious enough that even one of his harshest critics, Karl Rove, when asked whether he could attribute any virtue could attribute any virtue to him, it was caution. 

If you want someone in command of a high-risk, high-reward mission you might want to pick the leader who has the least relish for risk -- someone who doesn't telegraph his feelings, someone who doesn't get complacent until the deed is done, someone with no magical belief that he is a 'winner', someone who leaves room for a few things to go wrong, and who has the patience to wait for the optimal time. You want someone willing to inculcate a delusion in the other side that he is getting away with a blunder and that he has a good escape.

Donald Trump is the opposite. 

[Inmate Trump]

I just want to see *one* Trump voter admit the mistake they made putting this puppet into office.

[Ebowed]

I just want to see *one* Trump voter admit the mistake they made putting this puppet into office.

Good luck - he still has 38% approval somehow.  His supporters apparently think that making "libtards" cry is the equivalent to wage growth.

[BlueSwan]

I just want to see *one* Trump voter admit the mistake they made putting this puppet into office.

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

I just want to see *one* Trump voter admit the mistake they made putting this puppet into office.

-We got Gorsuch, so no mistake.

[Classic Conservative]

I just want to see *one* Trump voter admit the mistake they made putting this puppet into office.

Good luck - he still has 38% approval somehow.  His supporters apparently think that making "libtards" cry is the equivalent to wage growth.

*44%