NY Times says that Trump asked Comey to stop Flynn investigation. But why are all sources anonymous?

[Little-Acorn]

In fact, nearly every report purporting to make Trump look bad on any subject, comes from hard-left newspapers, and most have only anonymous sources. So there's nobody investigators can put on the stand and question about what they saw and heard.

How convenient.

BTW, how are the Democrats doing in finding the people in Russia who hacked our election? Any sources we can question? Any descriptions of which people they influenced, so we can question them?

Well, what do you know. No names. No specific actions found, no evidence at all.

Seems to be an emerging pattern in all these "blockbuster" reports from Democrat sources.

BTW, Comey had a chance to testify before Congress. Why didn't he mention any such request from Trump to shut down any investigation? Didn't even bring up the memo this "report" now points to as their chief (and only) source.

And why don't any of the screeching, outraged Democrats display any curiosity about these questions?

 

[Wry Catcher]

Comey took notes of his interaction with President Trump, or so it is claimed. Such notes are evidence, and if they were time stamped in February, President Pence seems to have gotten the gold ring.

Then we have to worry about Ayatollah Pence and his believe in holy ghosts. Good grief, where is Nixon now that we need him.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Comey took notes of his interaction with President Trump, or so it is claimed. Such notes are evidence, and if they were time stamped in February, President Pence seems to have gotten the gold ring.

Then we have to worry about Ayatollah Pence and his believe in holy ghosts. Good grief, where is Nixon now that we need him.

TRANSLATION: Still no one will admit to seeing this "memo", upon which the entire conspiracy theory rests.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Comey took notes of his interaction with President Trump, or so it is claimed. Such notes are evidence, and if they were time stamped in February, President Pence seems to have gotten the gold ring.

Then we have to worry about Ayatollah Pence and his believe in holy ghosts. Good grief, where is Nixon now that we need him.

TRANSLATION: Still no one will admit to seeing this "memo", upon which the entire conspiracy theory rests.

TRANSLATION: I hope its not true, I hope, I hope - please don't make it true.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Comey took notes of his interaction with President Trump, or so it is claimed. Such notes are evidence, and if they were time stamped in February, President Pence seems to have gotten the gold ring.

Then we have to worry about Ayatollah Pence and his believe in holy ghosts. Good grief, where is Nixon now that we need him.

TRANSLATION: Still no one will admit to seeing this "memo", upon which the entire conspiracy theory rests.

TRANSLATION: I hope its not true, I hope, I hope - please don't make it true.

It should be pretty easy to prove it true. Just produce the memo. And/or, name who has seen it and let him be questioned by people from both sides.

No problem, right?

But.... why are Democrats having such a hard time doing any of those things?

Unless the memo never existed, and was merely made up out of thin air by hysterical Democrats trying to lie about President Trump, as a means of destroying his Presidency.

Would they do that?

Naw.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Trump’s national security adviser takes on the Washington Post’s anonymous sources.

Former government officials have been demanding anonymity from the Washington Post in order to discuss a meeting they did not attend at the White House. President Trump’s National Security Adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster, who did attend the meeting, has been going on the record this week along with other attendees to knock down the resulting story. Yet much of the press still seems to credit the Post’s unnamed non-attendees.

Here’s the lede from the Post:

President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

On Monday evening Gen. McMaster said in response:

The story that came out tonight as reported is false. The President and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. At no time, at no time, were intelligence sources or methods discussed. And the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. Two other senior officials who were present, including the Secretary of State, remember the meeting the same way and have said so. Their on-the-record accounts should outweigh those of anonymous sources. And I was in the room. It didn’t happen.

On Tuesday the national security adviser elaborated on his remarks and took questions from reporters. At his Tuesday appearance in the White House briefing room, Gen. McMaster called Mr. Trump’s discussion “wholly appropriate” and consistent with the normal sharing of information on terror threats that occurs in high-level meetings with representatives of foreign nations. He said he was not concerned by Mr. Trump’s disclosures and had not contacted any foreign governments about them.

The anonymous sources quoted by the Post, on the other hand, appear to have very deep concerns, and the Post says that some of them even know what was said at the meeting. But many of the story’s harshest critiques of the President come from people who were not only not at the meeting, but are no longer even in government.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Once the memo - if it exists - is produced, Trump is gone.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

They are all Saturday Night Live.skits.

 

[Crixus]

In fact, nearly every report purporting to make Trump look bad on any subject, comes from hard-left newspapers, and most have only anonymous sources. So there's nobody investigators can put on the stand and question about what they saw and heard.

How convenient.

BTW, how are the Democrats doing in finding the people in Russia who hacked our election? Any sources we can question? Any descriptions of which people they influenced, so we can question them?

Well, what do you know. No names. No specific actions found, no evidence at all.

Seems to be an emerging pattern in all these "blockbuster" reports from Democrat sources.

BTW, Comey had a chance to testify before Congress. Why didn't he mention any such request from Trump to shut down any investigation? Didn't even bring up the memo this "report" now points to as their chief (and only) source.

And why don't any of the screeching, outraged Democrats display any curiosity about these questions?

No all.

 

[Wry Catcher]

They are all Saturday Night Live.skits.

We're the same age. I enlisted in the USN, what did you do in Feb. 1967?

 

[Iceweasel]

Once the memo - if it exists - is produced, Trump is gone.

If Comey wrote it tomorrow that would be good enough for you. But as his boss Trump can order investigations started or stopped, like he was Obama. But since Flynn did nothing illegal there was nothing to stop.

 

[Crixus]

Once the memo - if it exists - is produced, Trump is gone.

If Comey wrote it tomorrow that would be good enough for you. But as his boss Trump can order investigations started or stopped, like he was Obama. But since Flynn did nothing illegal there was nothing to stop.

How long of an investigation now? No one is a "suspect" let them flail. It's annoying, but it will be nice rubbing orange salt with bad hair in their wounds. I'm hoping the republicans get murdered in 18 when Trump leaves Them hanging.

 

[Iceweasel]

I'm hoping the republicans get murdered in 18 when Trump leaves Them hanging.

Yeah, that will fix everything. Giving leftists more power always works well for us.

 

[dcbl]

if Trump actually asked Comey to back off the investigation AND Comey, in turn failed to report that to Congress, then Comey should be in even more trouble himself

bottom line - this is yet more BS & a continuation of the constant attacks on Trump

 

[BoSoxGal]

Comey is a former prosecutor, and attorneys are trained to memorialize conversations in the immediate aftermath as a record against future developments. When I was a county attorney I did the same on a very regular basis, and in very contentious situations would share the memo with a trusted colleague contemporaneously in order to further validate the recording. This is a very common practice and Comey has a longstanding record for doing such, as he did when working under Ashcroft in the Bush administration.

Trump is a criminal.

 

[Slade3200]

Once the memo - if it exists - is produced, Trump is gone.

If Comey wrote it tomorrow that would be good enough for you. But as his boss Trump can order investigations started or stopped, like he was Obama. But since Flynn did nothing illegal there was nothing to stop.

There was an investigation into Flynns ties with russia. It's a known fact. That is something to stop

 

[Slade3200]

if Trump actually asked Comey to back off the investigation AND Comey, in turn failed to report that to Congress, then Comey should be in even more trouble himself

bottom line - this is yet more BS & a continuation of the constant attacks on Trump

You think it's all made up?

 

[Dragonlady]

They are all Saturday Night Live.skits.

Comey testified in Congress today about his Memo. Your Orange-faced baboon is toast.

 

[dcbl]

if Trump actually asked Comey to back off the investigation AND Comey, in turn failed to report that to Congress, then Comey should be in even more trouble himself

bottom line - this is yet more BS & a continuation of the constant attacks on Trump

You think it's all made up?

I think there is nothing to it

Trump meeting with foreign dignitaries = no big deal

Trump's conversation with Comey = context is everything

based on just the quote from the NYT memo, there does not look to be obstruction

seriously - the hair on fire hysteria is out of control

Trump is not going down

 

[Lakhota]

NY Times says that Trump asked Comey to stop Flynn investigation. But why are all sources anonymous?

Funny. Why does Trump keep his sources anonymous?