Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

Rep. Steve Knight (R-Palmdale) said Tuesday it is time for a special prosecutor to take over the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“It is time for an investigation of Russia’s intervention in the U.S. election. There is too much at stake at home and abroad to not take this step. There is so much conflicting information from many sources; Americans deserve the opportunity to learn the truth," Knight said in a statement. "As stated before, I continue to support any efforts done by the House Intelligence Committee and join many of my colleagues in supporting the assignment of a special prosecutor to take over the ongoing FBI investigation.”

Knight joins two fellow California Republicans -- Reps. Darrell Issa of Vista and Tom McClintock of Elk Grove -- who have previously said that a special prosecutor, rather than the Justice Department, should be in charge of the ongoing investigation into how Russia sought to interfere with the election and what, if anything, the Trump campaign knew about it.

Knight and Issa both represent districts Hillary Clinton won in 2016, and are on the Democrats' early list of targets in 2018.

A full-throated defense! Uh.

Republican @RepCharlieDent to @AlexNBCNews: "If that's the case, it's a very serious matter, and we're going to have to deal with it." pic.twitter.com/EPyMRYb0Sc

— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) May 16, 2017

Me: hi Congressman have you seen this NYT story

GOP member: no

Me: ok I'll summarize it

GOP member: [frantically pushes elevator button]

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) May 16, 2017

there's been an argument made that a special prosecutor isn't the best way to go, that an independent commission would be better because more free-ranging, but I'm not sure what to think about that

Is it too much to hope that Bade has video? I know I'm feeling spiteful, but I fervently hope this turns in to a slow and painful losing battle filled with shame for Trump, Pence, all of the plutocrats in the cabinet, Ryan, McConnell and every other spineless, soulless republican in house and the senate. They deserve nothing less

FOX Panel sez media is overreacting.

Well let's look into more of that Israel trip planning and

Sources in Israel tell me officials are concerned that if POTUS & First Lady visit Kotel together (on the men's side) it may spark protests.

— Jake Turx (@JakeTurx) May 16, 2017

To clarify: Israeli sources claim POTUS, FLOTUS & Ivanka plan to visit men side of Kotel, a very sensitive issue for many Orthodox Israelis. https://t.co/1iDfr98u5S

— Jake Turx (@JakeTurx) May 16, 2017

I'm enjoying the schadenfreude as much as anyone else but the options are still continued chaos in the White House vs President Pence. Not good from any angle

to be honest, the public doesn't understand the difference between an independent counsel (the law would have to be renewed to revive this position), special prosecutor, and independent committee.

I want a prosecutor because I'll admit to feeling quite Javert right now.

special prosecutor is preferable imo

to be honest, the public doesn't understand the difference between an independent counsel (the law would have to be renewed to revive this position), special prosecutor, and independent committee.

i sure don't!

this is the chaos ballet

President Pence as a sympathetic noble figure is a fucking nightmare. Anyone wishing for that is a fool.

Trump continually bumblefucking and ruining GOP poll numbers is the best thing you can hope for before 2018.

― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Tuesday, May 16, 2017 5:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg if one more person posts this insane shit ITT

CNN quotes anonymous sources that @realDonaldTrump had 3 scoops of ice cream and called it an ice cream Comey.

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 16, 2017

9-11 Commission = independent committee

Ken Starr - independent counsel

Patrick Fitzgerald = special counsel

Dying. (Hurd: another GOP House member.)

Will Hurd is mad at me for following him during his fake phone conversation

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) May 16, 2017

Oh hey, look who's all rough and tough now!

.@GOPoversight is going to get the Comey memo, if it exists. I need to see it sooner rather than later. I have my subpoena pen ready.

— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) May 16, 2017

"If it exists!" What a fool.

I can see his pen!

Fuck you weasel

Comey doesnt seem like the lying type to me. Trump though

It's gonna be a long month.

breaking news american national anthem has been changed to the fast music that plays when you're running out of time in super mario bros

— Clark Kent (@CK1Blogs) February 2, 2017

I can see it now.

Chaffetz: Fork over that memo, Comey! Sooner rather than later. You see this pen?

Comey: (sheepishly) O, nevermind. I was just foolin' around.

Minor details:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/trumps-disclosure-endangered-spy-inside-isis-israel-officials/story?id=47449304

The life of a spy placed by Israel inside ISIS is at risk tonight, according to current and former U.S. officials, after President Donald Trump reportedly disclosed classified information in a meeting with Russian officials last week.

The spy provided intelligence involving an active ISIS plot to bring down a passenger jet en route to the United States, with a bomb hidden in a laptop that U.S. officials believe can get through airport screening machines undetected. The information was reliable enough that the U.S. is considering a ban on laptops on all flights from Europe to the United States.

The sensitive intelligence was shared with the United States, officials say, on the condition that the source remain confidential.

“The real risk is not just this source,” said Matt Olsen, the former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and an ABC News contributor, “but future sources of information about plots against us.”

It's such a stupid theory that Comey made it up

god Chaffetz is going to be hilarious on Fox's idiot hour

Not that comey is beyond reproach -- far from it -- but come on. It wouldnt be his style at all

Bald guy on cnn making a case that if this were true comey should have gone public on the spot. He "has a credibility problem."

😕

who knows wtf is going to happen, but if Sessions goes down with all of it i'll be ecstatic

my daughter was asking me what if Pence was also implicated/guilty of something involving Trump and I wasn't sure how that would work (can the vice president be impeached?) Shit, maybe if they both go down we'll finally get PRESIDENT RYAN

These people are so stupid that Krauthammer comes off a smart man merely by pointing out that job preservation and naked self-interest are precisely why Comey might not have resigned.

can the vice president be impeached?

yes. The discussion arose when Agnew was caught with money in the drawer. He resigned before anything happened.

ah thx yeah I knew Agnew resigned and why but I didn't recall any impeachment talk

I assume Pence will resign too. He was shown to have been untruthful about what he knew about Flynn.

President Ryan would suck but I don't imagine a shamed Republican Party will be able to advance their agenda.

Pence was at least untruthful about knowing about Flynn way before he admitted to.
Not sure what else he's done but hoping he goes too, though President Ryan would not be good.
Hoping all of the Trump appointees spend long years in jail or die painfully. Though dragging out the pain would be so much better, innit?

lol what if proceedings begin > Dems win House in 2018 > Trump and Pence both impeached = PRESIDENT NANCY

I would think the odds of impeachment proceedings coming to fruition before the 2018 election are p slim

but who knows shit is moving super-fast!

Ryan is deeply unpopular. He'd be an embattled, despised president for three years -- our country could weather if better than we can a maniac with a cult following.

Didn't Pence tell Trump he thought he should fire Comey? I guess that in and of itself doesn't make him an accessory, unless he knew the intent was to stifle the Russia thing?

PRESIDENT NANCY

jfc that's horrifying in a whole nother way

Of note:

Source close to Comey on why he didn't report to Congress about that convo w/Trump in which he asked him to stop the Flynn investigation:
1/

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 16, 2017

“Because it wasn’t a very successful effort and he thought he’d pushed back on it. ..
2/

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 16, 2017

"He was very sensitive to how difficult this was going to be to work with this president; he also thought he could do it.”
3/

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 16, 2017

Pence is only where he is bc trump picked him. It would be idiotic for him to stay on.

lol what if proceedings begin > Dems win House in 2018 > Trump and Pence both impeached = PRESIDENT NANCY

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 6:23 PM (twenty-five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the ultimate argument for the GOP to cut bait immediately.

heh

President Nancy would be a dream compared to any of the Republican goons.

xp

Disheartening Line of Succession

1 Vice President Mike Pence (R)
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R)
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R)
4 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (R)
5 Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (R)
6 Secretary of Defense James Mattis (I)
7 Attorney General Jeff Sessions (R)
8 Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (R)
9 Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (R)
10 Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (R)
11 Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta (R)
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price (R)
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson (R)
– Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao (R) Not a natural-born citizen, ineligible for the Presidency.
14 Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R)
15 Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (R)
16 Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin (I)
17 Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly (I)

or Trump gets impeached, fires Pence and appoints ... Eric Trump!

Comey and team are flooding the zone. Over at Politico

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/trump-comey-flynn-shutdown-238467

"It's very rich in detail and hopefully it will come out soon,” the friend of Comey, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told POLITICO. "There are other memos about his meetings too. He wrote down every word Trump said to him as soon as he could."