Dems Wrote Memo To Set Up White House, Trump Says

The following article by John T. Bennett was posted on the Roll Call website February 10, 2018:]

President: Intel Dems wanted to ‘blame the White House for lack of transparency’

President Trump speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building last month, blasting House Intelligence Democrats over a rebuttal memo of which he is blocking the release. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

President Donald Trump is accusing House Intelligence Committee Democrats with purposely crafting their rebuttal memo about FBI and Justice Department officials’ actions early in the Russia election meddling probe in a way that would back his White House into a corner.

The president used a Saturday tweet to explain his Friday night decision to block the release of the Democratic document that counters one released last week by the panel’s Republicans. Trump claims the Democrats crafted “a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods (and more), would have to be heavily redacted.”

The GOP president accused the committee’s Democrats with crafting their document so they could “blame the White House for lack of transparency.” Continue reading “Dems Wrote Memo To Set Up White House, Trump Says”

Donald Trump Is Already Using The Nunes Memo To Undermine The Russia Investigation

The following article by Daniel Marans was posted on the Huffington Post website February 3, 2018:

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Just a day after the release of an underwhelming Republican-authored House Intelligence Committee memo alleging inappropriate law enforcement spying on Donald Trump’s campaign, President Donald Trumpis already using it to cast aspersions on the investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump’s pronouncement, issued in a Saturday morning tweet, supports the widely held view that the four-page partisan memo was designed to help Trump scuttle special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference and to cover up Trump campaign officials’ potential collusion with Russia. Continue reading “Donald Trump Is Already Using The Nunes Memo To Undermine The Russia Investigation”