Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35899327)

The Deputy Attorney General has appointed a 'special counsel' to oversee the Russian investigation.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rober...es_bsq_related



Trump and the White House were only told 30 minutes before the announcement but didn't react badly apparently. I think they must have known this was coming at some point.

I think it's a better outcome for Trump really. I suspect that for him this was end up being a Clinton-level e-mail scandal. That there is evidence of poor behavior but nothing illegal. Maybe some of his advisers might be in trouble (Flynn etc). But Trump was heading for serious trouble just because he seems to put his foot in it. Any investigation he has power over was bound to cause trouble. As it's independent he can't do that and it also avoids questioning for now because all sides can just say 'it's being investigated'.

Flynn though might be trouble: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/poli...151149702.html



He seems to have made a decision about the United States foreign policy that helped Turkey who was paying him! :O

Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35899349)

I think the best thing that Trump could do is to shut down his social media account and spend a bit more time thinking about what he says and does. I dare say there are many decent people around him who're pulling their hair out with frustration.

Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35899349)

I think the best thing that Trump could do is to shut down his social media account and spend a bit more time thinking about what he says and does. I dare say there are many decent people around him who're pulling their hair out with frustration.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35899352)

I think he needs to fire some of his staff. Get some who'll tell him when he is going off the reservation and filter his twitter feed. There is no way a competent staff with permission to control his twitter account would have allowed that tweet about Obama tapping his phones or the suggestion he has taped his conversations with Corney.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35899358)

He's off again: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...69927644340224

Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35899431)

He might well be right about the double standards but he just needs to shut up and think before he tweets. Right now he's just giving his enemies the ammunition to shoot him with.

I think I might come up with an app which delays all social media messages, texts etc by 24 hours just to allow people time to calm down before they react to events and make fools of themselves. Maybe I could become a cyber-millionaire... :)

Originally Posted by RizzyKing (Post 35899445)

Israel needs to be careful given their reliance on the US and trumps habit of knee jerk response style they need the US a lot more then the US needs them. Trump does need someone to calm him and post on social media more relaxed then he has in the past. I expected there to be a period of adjustment for donald trump from businessman to politician and that it could take a while but he isn't making progress at the rate he needs too. While i still believe he was a better choice then clinton he needs to start rising to the job rather then allowing himself to be constantly distracted by the washington establishment and the liberal press and he needs to get the investigation into russia handled.

Originally Posted by Mick (Post 35899452)

So, this so called ghost memo appears, apparently written by the fired former FBI Director, James Comey and this memo is suppose to outline that Comey was pressured to drop the Flynn investigation by Trump....

...But hold on a tick, on May 3rd just over two weeks ago, months after this so called Feb meeting with Trump and Comey, Comey Testifies under oath that in his experience, the FBI has not been told for political reasons to drop any investigation.....