Trump and the F.B.I.

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Is it these Dems are not too bright, they don't understand history.....or both?

Actually, Trump is a criminal; that he escapes punishment is a crime.

 

[kaz]

Exactly.

Another fascist heard from

 

[kaz]

Actually, Trump is a criminal; that he escapes punishment is a crime.

Yes, it's clearly illegal to not be a Democrat and support every position your fascist party holds. Republicans are learning that if they don't already know it

 

[themirrorthief]

I love watching Trump attack the F.B.I., historically a bastion of conservatism, from J. Edgar Hoover to today. However, no one who dare crosses Trump is immune, even the F.B.I.. We've seen Trump supporters violently attack the police on January 6th, 2021, and now they are going after the F.B.I..

Maybe it's time to remind Trump supporters about the F.B.I., and who runs it. I'm quite happy to let the former President continue to lash out at traditional allies as he tries to make the former Republican Party his own personal fiefdom.




Of all the weird and historically discordant moments and news stories of the Donald Trump era, few seem stranger than watching the former president and his allies demonize the F.B.I. as some sort of rogue “woke” Democratic deep state mob. This has been happening for several years now, but in the days since the F.B.I. searched Mr. Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, the bureau has attracted particularly withering criticism for its supposedly leftist persecution of Mr. Trump, and Republicans have even begun to call to “defund the corrupt F.B.I.”

Historically, though, the F.B.I. has been arguably the most culturally conservative and traditionally white Christian institution in the entire U.S. government. It’s an institution so culturally conservative, even by the standards of law enforcement, that Democratic presidents have never felt comfortable — or politically emboldened — enough to nominate a Democrat to head the bureau.

That’s right: Far from being a bastion of progressive thinking, every single director of the F.B.I. has been a Republican-aligned official, going all the way back to its creation. Such history suggests that the issue here is Mr. Trump and not institutional bias.

Its current director, Christopher Wray, who oversaw the agents conducting last week’s search of Mar-a-Lago, was nominated by Mr. Trump himself and came to the job with sterling Republican credentials: He was the head of the criminal division in George W. Bush’s Justice Department, a member of the conservative Federalist Society and a clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig, a Republican judicial icon.

Mr. Wray replaced the F.B.I. director Mr. Trump fired, James Comey, who had been nominated by Barack Obama and was the former deputy attorney general of George W. Bush’s Justice Department. His predecessor Robert Mueller, who served in the Justice Department for both Bush presidencies, was nominated by George W. Bush.

And before them — from Louis Freeh (a George H.W. Bush judge) to the F.B.I.’s founder, J. Edgar Hoover — all of the F.B.I.’s directors were Republican-aligned officials.

Opinion | Trump Is Going After One of the Most Conservative Institutions in the U.S. Government (Published 2022)

As its history shows, the F.B.I. is hardly a “woke” deep state mob.

www.nytimes.com

poor old senile JOe will fix everything, just keep checking his depends Kamala

 

[themirrorthief]

Trump is shady. That's why he talks bad about the FBI. If he wasn't shady he wouldn't have to look over his shoulder.

I never had sex with that woman...Ms lewinsky

 

[kaz]

poor old senile JOe will fix everything, just keep checking his depends Kamala

Yes, indeed. Democrats have this. We all know secretly Biden is an amazing President. They can all relax now

 

[jc456]

Actually, Trump is a criminal; that he escapes punishment is a crime.

How?

 

[Lesh]

The Trump Republican Party gets crazier by the day

 

[tahuyaman]

Actually, Trump is a criminal; that he escapes punishment is a crime.

Disagreeing with left wingers or opposing the traditional DC establishment is not a criminal act.

 

[tahuyaman]

The Trump Republican Party gets crazier by the day

The modern Democrat Party is the group which is pushing the country over the cliff.

 

[jknowgood]

Those are police vehicles, not officers.

Idiot.

So if people burned the fbi vehicles, you wouldn't think that as an attack? Oh, and your boys tried to burn a police department down. While they trapped them in.

 

[kaz]

How?

C_Clayton_Jones is referring to the criminalization of not being a Democrat. That is the crime, he need look no further. He's right though on one thing, Trump isn't a Democrat even though he agrees with them on many positions and has no problem spending money like it's water

 

[jknowgood]

The same thing happened with Bush's wars. They were in here defending them all day long, but the moment the orange deity spoke out against them, suddenly they're anti-war doves.

These are people who have been conditioned to pick a leader and then mindlessly follow that leader no matter what. Weak, manipulable, and the political equivalent of Pavlov's Dogs.

The only thing I didn't like about the Iraq War. Is, when didn't go in and do the job and leave.

 

[jknowgood]

Every educated American knows all they need to know about Trump, and since he has been President, we have learned about his background before he became conservative Jesus to the flock. Not that we needed to know, as 4 years in the W.H. only confirmed his amoral degeneracy and pathological narcissism.

I accept your surrender. Now push on.

After the Mueller investigation, it proved Trump to be the cleanest president in our history.

 

[jknowgood]

He's ready to put agents in harms way now. You talk about an evil SOB;

He is just wanting to prove how corrupt the fbi is.

 

[kaz]

The only thing I didn't like about the Iraq War. Is, when didn't go in and do the job and leave.

I learned after Reagan's failures in the ME and the first Iraq war under Bush 1 how futile the ME is to fix and that we should stay out of it. So I opposed the second war. But you're right that most of the damage would have been averted if after removing Hussain we had left instead of staying in that shit hole with no good guys and constant war

 

[kaz]

He is just wanting to prove how corrupt the fbi is.

Yep. We need to strip off like the top five layers and fire them all, they are all part of a corrupt leadership culture that is just oblivious to freedom and that their job is to fight crime, not their political enemy

 

[jknowgood]

I learned after Reagan's failures in the ME and the first Iraq war under Bush 1 how futile the ME is to fix and that we should stay out of it. So I opposed the second war. But you're right that most of the damage would have been averted if after removing Hussain we had left instead of staying in that shit hole with no good guys and constant war

We could've sent some special forces in an assassinated Hussein and that's it.

 

[Lesh]

After the Mueller investigation, it proved Trump to be the cleanest president in our history.

You funny man

 

[kaz]

We could've sent some special forces in an assassinated Hussein and that's it.

That would have been so much better. And we had every right to do it since he aided and abetted the Taliban and al Qaeda who attacked us. Don't attack with the US of A or we will kill you is a great lesson