My opinion: What distinguishes this particular news is that the man who sits as the president himself is/was the subject of this investigation. Not his campaign, not his family, not his buddies. Him.
When you think about what it must have taken for the FBI – not an agency well known for its liberal bent – to seriously consider opening such a sensitive, politically-fraught investigation into the possibility that a sitting president of the United States is a witting or unwitting asset of the Russians, well… to me, that’s a pretty big story. Not a surprising one, I’ll grant you, given what we already know in the public domain. But it’s still shocking.
This is a bombshell because there was sufficient evidence for the FBI to investigate whether the President was working for Russia and a threat to national security. This is much more serious than just investigating his campaign staff.
Frank Figliuzzi, former former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation:
“The FBI is privy to all kinds of intel … if you’re going to open a case on the POTUS, you’re going to have more than just unstable behavior … you’re going to have something that gives you at least a reasonable suspicion if not specific and articulable facts.”
Even Nixon would never have stooped so low as to be a Russian asset.This comes as no surprise to me, and I am somewhat relieved the FBI took this notion seriously. Chump will no doubt claim politics and anger at the Comey firing, but really, it is impossible to initiate this sort of investigation for political purposes or personal reasons. They have to have had some hard evidence just to get this ball rolling.
More proof that not only is Chump himself seriously a traitor to this nation but so is every person who voted for him, not to mention the average Republican trash.
Actually, I kinda expect him to give us a few encores of his hit from the Spring of 2017, I’ve Been Assured by the Director of the FBI That I’m NOT Under Investigation.
CFSG: Humanitarian Crisis at our Southern Border. I just got back and it is a far worse situation than almost anyone would understand, an invasion! I have been there numerous times – The Democrats Cryin’ Chuck and Nancy don’t know how bad and dangerous it is for our ENTIRE COUNTRY…
“Humanitarian Crisis”: we are being invaded! I am having a very hard time trying to make those two things fit together. What am I doing wrong?
Knowing things and being able to think. Trump probably heard that “humanitarian” groups were involved, didn’t know the word and vaguely understood that some liberal reporter might use it to trap him with their fake news. A few days later, Fox does a “funny” piece on vegetarians.
A few days later, some synapses connect: if vegetarians only eat vegetables, then humanitarians… it’s worse than he thought! Mexican cannibals! The humanitarians are invading, thus the “Humanitarian Crisis”.