Trump Thread

[Xiahou]

The Russian intel-sharing idiocy is a intel/diplomatic snafu, but it's not going to have the impact of Trump firing his FBI director after he tried to lean on him to end an investigation (should the reports prove true).

From CNN:

Comey was in the Oval Office briefing the President along with the vice president and attorney general on February 14, according to a source close to Comey who has a copy of the memo. After the briefing, Trump "asked Sessions and Pence to leave," the source told CNN.
According to a memo, Comey wrote about the encounter and shared with confidantes, the President said: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."
He told Comey that Flynn hadn't done anything wrong.
Comey was "concerned" that the President was trying to "stop the investigation," the source told CNN. "He wrote a number of memos, a great many if not all were about contacts with Trump -- particularly the ones that made him feel uneasy."

Again, if these memos do exist and Comey testifies before Congress that Trump, after making Sessions and Pence leave the room, leaned on him to let Flynn off the hook... we might be looking at President Pence soon.

If the memos aren't produced and Comey doesn't testify in support of the allegations... then it's just your standard Trump scandal nothing-burger. We'll see.