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Report: Trump Asked McCabe About Who He Voted For While Sessions Recently Pushed Wray To Fire Him [Updated]

donald_trump_president-elect_portrait_croppedMcCabeSeveral sources are being cited for a story this morning that President Donald Trump asked Andrew McCabe, then the acting Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation, who he had voted for in the presidential election.  If true, it would be another highly inappropriate question for a president to ask an FBI official.  Such questions undermine the apolitical status of our law enforcement officials. Indeed, for those concerned about
“Deep State” political bias, the last thing that we want is for officials to be actively questioned about their voting in elections — compromising the sanctity of the voting booth for all citizens.  In the meantime, media outlets are also reporting that Attorney General Jeff Sessions pushed FBI Director Christopher Wray to fire McCabe.  While the White House denies that Wray threatened to resign, such an effort would show a remarkably long learning curve for this Administration. Update: President Trump says that he does not recall asking McCabe who he voted for in the presidential election.

The questioning of McCabe and the push to fire McCabe would not be a crime but it would raise serious questions about the level of control and discipline in the White House after a year of flailing around from controversy to controversy.  There would not likely be a Russian investigation if Trump had not fired Comey. Indeed, I was one of those who questioned the need for a Special Counsel until Trump took this step (and made comments that undermined his own decision).  That is why I supported the establishment of the Special Counsel investigation.

If McCabe was asked to reveal who he voted for, he should have raised the issue with the Attorney General.  Moreover, it is the duty of the FBI Director and/or the Attorney General to then raise the matter with the White House in the strongest terms as an inappropriate inquiry.  This would be a very serious transgression on long-standing traditions in this country as well as the protections afforded to civil servants,

Now, it is being reported that Jeff Sessions sought to fire the second in command (who is scheduled to retire in March).  What concerns me is whether there was anyone in the room who explained how unlikely it would be for Wray to take such an action and how damaging such a request would be for the White House.  The reports indicate that the White House Counsel was a party to this ill-conceived effort, but then allegedly told Sessions to back off when Wray strongly objected to the effort.  I am still hoping that the White House will deny the entirety of the story, but this is an unsettling allegations after so many missteps by this Administration.

As for the alleged questioning of McCabe, it would be a gratuitous as it is damaging for the White House. The damage is more political than legal however.  Firing McCabe would not have any material impact on the Russian investigation and it is clear that Trump was responding to his view of a Deep State opposition to his Administration.  I supported the congressional investigations into some of these controversies surrounding the FBI but this would be another ham-handed way of addressing these allegations.

What do you think?

189 thoughts on “Report: Trump Asked McCabe About Who He Voted For While Sessions Recently Pushed Wray To Fire Him [Updated]”

  1. Yawn. So the stripper porn star thing gained no traction now this pops up. In the meantime on the other side of the aisle, coup plotters continue to advance their plot and no one seems to care.

    2. Got enough traction that Melania stayed home while T rump and his entourage are partyin in Davos with da globalists. Goldman Showers is showering us with gold. Praise da Roman emperor T rump.

  3. This is just wrong. Everything that is happening right now is evil. It is the complete destruction of our Constitution. Everyone, Trump, Clinton, Obama, DOJ, NSA, CIA, FBI, private law firms, war contractors, banksters, Google, FB, twitter and so on–they are all guilty as he&*. There has been a coup against the people of the Unites States. It has been going on for years, tearing apart our society and the rule of law in a systematic way. It has so far been completely successful.

    As to this specific issue here is an excerpt from an article by a person who believes Republicans have nothing to do with anything that has gone wrong. Because this excerpt is factual and pertinent I quote from it. However, the idea that Republicans including Trump are not part of the destruction of our society is untrue. “…It was in the office of Comey’s top deputy, Andrew McCabe, where agents discussed an “insurance policy” in the event that Trump won. Reports indicated that the Russia-collusion probe was that insurance policy.

    The text was from Peter Strzok, the top investigator on the Trump case, and was sent to Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer and also his mistress.

    “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40 . . . ” Strzok wrote.

    It is frightening that Strzok, who called Trump “an idiot,” was the lead investigator on both the Clinton and Trump cases.

    After these messages surfaced, special counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok and Page from his probe, though both still work at the FBI.

    Strzok, despite his talk of an “insurance policy” in 2016, wrote in May of 2017 that he was skeptical Mueller’s probe would find anything on Trump because “there’s no big there there.”

    find the rest at zero hedge

    1. Mr Trump cannot be impeached because he is ignorant and mentally dysfunctional. Many other national leaders fit that description. Money laundering, bank fraud, income tax fraud should have been the point of the investigation.

      1. Chris,

        You post has nothing to do with mine so your reply should go elsewhere. I am talking about an oligarchy that is bent on the destruction of our Constitution and society. This is much bigger than impeaching Trump. He is a cog in the wheel. They all need to be exposed, not just Trump, certainly including Trump though.

    3. Everyone is allowed an opinion; your mistaken belief is that FBI (whomever) personnel are not capable of rising above their beliefs and following the facts. Remember, just because you are integrity challenged does not mean all others are.

        1. Ken,

          You’re right about ZH. However, they pull information and articles from all different sources including people who are not anti immigrant and anti Muslim.

          As adults, I expect people to be able to ascertain bias at any site and I expect others to have the ability to make judgments about when any site is putting out some accurate information, a lot of accurate information or none at all. If citizens cannot do this, we will not get any information. You have a mind, we all have minds, we can use them!

        2. Ken,

          This is what Jill has right, with a few minor quibbles:

          “…Everything that is happening right now is evil. It is the complete destruction of our Constitution. Everyone, Trump, Clinton, Obama, DOJ, NSA, CIA, FBI, private law firms, war contractors, banksters, Google, FB, twitter and so on–they are all guilty as he&*. There has been a coup against the people of the Unites States. It has been going on for years, tearing apart our society and the rule of law in a systematic way. It has so far been completely successful.

          “As to this specific issue here is an excerpt from an article by a person who believes Republicans have nothing to do with anything that has gone wrong. Because this excerpt is factual and pertinent I quote from it. However, the idea that Republicans including Trump are not part of the destruction of our society is untrue.” -Jill

          (As for Zero Hedge, you probably know more. As for any anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim crap, I don’t subscribe.)

          1. “The Bigot Threatening CNN Got Out of Jail in Time for Dinner”

            https://theintercept.com/2018/01/23/cnn-threat-fake-news-brandon-griesemer-trump/

            “His threats, in the spirit of the Trump administration’s soft stance on white supremacy and other violence from white people, were basically given the legal version of a wink and a nod. If you think for a single solitary moment that a Muslim-American who made 22 hateful, violent calls to CNN threatening mass casualties would’ve been charged, arrested, and released on the same day, with a bond of any kind, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. They wouldn’t get home in time to see next year’s Superbowl, let alone the game that night.”

          2. Thanks for trying to explain this to Ken.

            ZH has many commenters who hate Jews and despise women as well as people who are poor. Ty is extremely sexist. He also despises poor people. He’s not a great guy, and has some awfully vile commenters to my way of thinking. Nevertheless, here is something at ZH which is absolutely true, verifiable and fantastic:

            https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-24/judicial-watch-sues-doj-text-messages-fbis-strzok-and-page

    5. Zeroes hedge is kinda like Foxy News on da politics. Okay on da economical landscape.

          1. Libertarian and bigot are synonyms. (Conservative and bigot are synonyms, as well.)

                  1. That it is untrue to say that all libertarians and conservatives are bigots (along with the unstated corollary that “liberals” are not bigots, not ever).

    6. Seriously? You just said that. The Constitution was destroyed a long, long time ago.

      “Crazy Abe” Lincoln began the communistic destruction of classes, tore up the Constitution, confiscated private property, subsumed private markets and killed 1 million Americans to impose his will as a despot and dictator when slavery should have been eliminated through the use of free market tools such as promotion of abolition, boycotts and divestiture. Slavery could not persist if free American consumers and free American investors stopped supporting it.

      The creature from Jekyll Island imposed communism in the forms of central planning, redistribution of wealth and social engineering on America – everything from the income tax and the 19th amendment to welfare, unfair “Fair Housing” law and “Affirmative Action Privilege” the whole communist package.

      Seriously? The Constitution is just now suffering “complete destruction”?

      Read the Constitution and find NO restriction on secession which is the entirely legal and constitutional step taken by the CSA.

      Read the Constitution on the right to private property which James Madison defined as “that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”

      Read Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 which limits the power of Congress to tax to “general Welfare” and excludes and precludes individual welfare, AKA redistribution of wealth.

      If the Constitution still held dominion, not one iota of the welfare state, command economy or social dictatorship would exist today.

      1. Excerpt from the article linked above:

        “[T]he Majority voted today on a party-line basis to grant House Members access to a profoundly misleading set of talking points drafted by Republican staff attacking the FBI and its handling of the investigation,” Rep. Adam Schiff, the committee’s top Democrat, said in a statement. “Rife with factual inaccuracies and referencing highly classified materials that most of Republican Intelligence Committee members were forced to acknowledge they had never read, this is meant only to give Republican House members a distorted view of the FBI.”

        “This may help carry White House water, but it is a deep disservice to our law enforcement professionals,” he added.

  4. Such questions undermine the apolitical status of our law enforcement officials.

    Wow! Who wrote this for you? Our law enforcement officials have undermined their own apolitical status.

    There would not likely be a Russian investigation if Trump had not fired Comey.

    Again, wow! The Russian investigation began long before Comey was fired. There was no way the IC/FBI/DNC cabal was not going to try everything in their power to undermine this President.

    He can ask McCabe who he voted for and McCabe can tell him it’s none of his business. Trump may have a bull in a china shop approach but his instincts are proving to be sound. For all the fear that our sworn enemy, The Russians, are undermining our politics and this administration; why is there no fear that our top law enforcement agency isn’t undermining it themselves?

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  6. If Trump has nothing to hide, then Trump’s attempts at hiding nothing are not working.
    If Trump has something to hide, then Trump’s attempts at hiding something are not working.
    Either Trump has nothing to hide, or Trump has something to hide.
    Either Trump’s attempts at hiding nothing are not working, or Trump’s attempts at hiding something are not working.

  8. I honestly believe that Mr. Trump, among many other things, is in deed a moron. I also believe that Mr. Trump is very guilty of treason, along with Don Jr and Mr. Kushner. I also believe that at the very least Don Senior and Mr. Kushner are guilt of massive tax fraud. I am really disappointed in the Republicans in the House and Senate who seem to not care at all about Mr. Trump committing treason, or anything else, they only seem to care that he is a Republican. I believe that Mr. McConnell and Mr. Ryan are complicit by their inaction’s. I believe that this article is a very good read so I am going to reblog it for you Sir.

  10. “…such an effort would show a remarkably long learning curve for this Administration.”

    The coup attempt is not about Trump but about the FBI and other deep-state hoodlums. If there is any long learning curve, it’s with the FBI, certainly not the Trump Administration.

    There. Fixed it for you!

    1. I believe that a coup d’etet has already happened. Remember the attempted coup against FDR where he was to be the public face but all decisions would be made by the bankster/CEO cabal’s choice? So now we have Trump as the public face taking the heat for everything, the military in the White House and a full corporate/bank press in all the agencies where regulations designed to protect the people are being systematically rescinded and the agencies are being starved of funds and expertise. The oligarchs are raiding the pockets of the rest of us. Native heritage sites are being “given” to the corporate gluttons, as are the oceans and seashores. The oligarchs are winning.

      Vote them out? The computers, software and hardware, used for voting are privatized. Voter rolls are scrubbed to remove minorities. The voting districts are gerry-mandered. As I said, the oligarchs are winning.

      1. The human race is the only ransom species on Earth. Natural resources are owned & monopolized by one person, group or organization, then made available to anyone else for a ransom. The practice has become so normalized throughout history, no one gives thought to the realty that such a system is a simple variation of slavery.

  11. If the guy is going to work for me, I would like to think he voted for me, even if he lies about it. 😉

  12. All this apCray about the sanctity of the FBI. This blog needs to have full topic on the assassination of JFK, MLK and Robert Kennedy and the direction of those killings by J. Edgar Hoover.

    1. J. Edgar Hover left the FBI 46 years ago; he died 42 years ago. Anyone who worked for him is long since retired, if not dead. So exactly how would any of this cast doubt on the current operations of the FBI?

  13. When will a Moscow internet troll tell Franklin Graham that his praise for Trump’s economy will have to be limited to the smoke and mirrors of Wall Street stock prices? (It may be crunch time for that defense, expect a frenzied short selling, soon)
    Reportedly, a major American paper products corporation, is the first planning to shed 12% of its workforce- allegedly, the company brags about using its tax cuts to finance its global restructuring plan. (Share Blue)

    1. “Share Blue” = Correct the Record = David Brock. Fake Progressives promoting MSM and corporate candidates.

      1. Attempts to kill the messenger won’t stop the population from awakening to the big picture of organized crime, especially money laundering, at the highest levels of the GOP and linked to foreign and domestic oligarchs.

        And, don’t bother tarring Democrats nor, interjecting “what about…ism”. The first priority is taking down the richest 0.1% who are joined at the hip with the GOP. Once that’s accomplished, the richest 0.1% who weakened the Democratic Party can have their comeuppance.

        1. “the messenger” is promoting the same 1% you rail about – except they are mostly Dims. Start supporting Progessives like Tulsi Gabbard or you all will lose again bigly.

          1. Start supporting Progessives like Tulsi Gabbard or you all will lose again bigly.

            It is no mystery that our current administrative, bureaucratic and highly centralized federal government is the outcome of supporting progressive politicians. So how then would supporting another progressive like Tulsi Gabbard return this country to the rule of law and separation of powers?

            1. Olly, those are not progressives rather DINOs & RINOs – neo libs / neo cons. Tulsi has integrity. At least she voted against continued surveillance and is against interventist wars which means she wouldn’t just by pass Congress.

          2. Autumn,…
            It’s .1%, not 1%.
            I clarified that about a week ago…I needed to know whether to blame c. 3,000,000 oligarchs who are holding the other 99% in virtual serfdom, or c.300,000 oligarchs enslaving the other 99.9% of Americans.
            It’s just a matter of people like Linda educating the bulk of the 99.9% who don’t realize that oligarchs are to blame for all of their problems.😉
            Linda is partially correct about those fat cats weakening the Democratic Party….smothering Hillary with $1.2 Billion in campaign contributions was a diabolical plot by the oligarchy to defeat her.
            I don’t think Hillary covers that as a reason for her defeat in her book,”What Happened?”.

  15. Several sources meaning four to seven turned out to be WaPo which means no sources and the rest was what if and conjecture with the usual support from Canadian Bacon which means zero minus one

    Not worth bothering with .

  16. People of this ilk use laws meant for the good of all to serve their own purposes at the expense of all, get out of responsibilities because they can pay for the lawyers, flaunt their advantages over the ‘everyman’ as a matter of course. The question we should be asking ourselves is why do we elect them to the Presidency, Governorship of Florida, or any post that requires an example of ethical behavior and honesty. We have a fraudster who filched 250 mil from the taxpayers as Governor of Florida and a lying buffoon for President.

    This is what we should be focusing on. The oligarchical system we enjoy gives us these scumbags. People of value and worth never make it to the expensive media circus that is our election system. Ban private funding of elections beyond a nominal sum per registered voter. Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, and other truer democracies or constitutional republics or system dependent on elections do it and the result is vastly superior. What’s wrong with America?

    1. I noticed you now are writing like a dialect trained leftist now which is at least more honest than pretending to be anything but a foreigner.

  17. If such reports does not disturb you as one of the leading Constitutional Scholars in the Country, then I frankly don’t know what will. Ayatollah Trump and Ayatollah Pence, supported by Hojatollah Sessions et. al are running the country. If anyone wishes to understand it, they’re welcome to visit the Supreme Leader’s Website and the statements by the head of the Judiciary. Is that what all who claim to be “conservatives” wish for America?

    2. Conservatives hate America. (1) They employ and shield its traitors. (2) They’ve dismantled its economic strength, encouraging the financial sector to drag down GDP by an estimated 2%. And, they’ve attacked its productive sector-workers. (3) They brought the nation to its knees in 2008. And, then they bailed out the global corporations but, not the people (4) They’ve made America the most imprisoned population in the world. (5) And, they’ve stripped the vulnerable of their protections.

      1. Corporate bail outs – Obama – too big to fail, too big to jail doctrine. School to prison pipeline set into place by Bill Clinton with draconian laws – ie crack cocaine vs powder.

        It’s not a conservative issue – it is both RINOs and DINOs answering to their corporate handlers.

        1. Also, check out Kamela Harris’ record on stripping the vulnerable of their protections by not prosecuting Mnuchnin the Foreclosure King as well as trying to keep people in prison to extract labor from them and fighting the exoneration of an innocent man.

          And as far as traitors – how about Rep Xavier Beccera, now Cali AG – his connection to the Pakistanis who had access to the House data including intel??

          “According to the Daily Caller, Becerra was one of five house democrats who first hired Imran Awan in 2004, and would later hire Imran’s brother, Abid, as well as Imran’s wife, Hina Alvi. In 2013, upon becoming chairman of the Democratic Caucus, Becerra would begin further paying Alvi an extra $25,000 to $30,000 a year, in addition to payments from Becerra’s personal office.

          As the Caller points out, this means that the current Attorney General of California is personally responsible for far more payments to the Awan family than any other Democratic member of Congress.”

          https://disobedientmedia.com/2017/10/californias-attorney-general-xavier-becerra-and-the-awan-scandal/

          1. Quoting the Daily Caller says it all.

            The Russians’ success- destabilizing the country with the help of Fox, a.m. radio, the internet, and publications like the Washington Times.

            1. Giving credit where it’s due – and the DC has done an excellent job in covering the complicated Awan bros story. Reporter Luke Rosiack rocks!

              As a non partisan I am free to read all sorts of publications – not stuck in the mire of the MSM

            2. If the Russians are so good at using such limited resources to “destabilize” the country then why hasn’t Antifa, BLM, and your other hordes of Soros whores come around to using the same tactics?

              I question the “destabilization” notion. Seems we’re squashing an attempted coup thus ending instability caused by your allies Strzok, Comey, Page, McCabe, Ohr, Mueller, et al.

          2. Did you say Kamala Harris?

            Kamala Harris will NEVER be eligible for the U.S. presidency.

            Kamala Harris’ parents were foreign citizens at the time of her birth.

            The U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, Clause 5, requires the President to be a “natural born citizen,” which, by definition in the Law of Nations, requires “parents who are citizens” at the time of birth of the candidate and must be “…born of a father who is a citizen;…”

            Ben Franklin thanked Charles Dumas for the Law of Nations which “…has been continually in the hands of the members of our Congress, now sitting,…”

            The Jay/Washington letter of July, 1787, raised the presidential
            requirement from citizen to “natural born citizen” to place a “strong
            check” against foreign allegiances by the commander-in-chief.

            Every American President before Obama had two parents who were American citizens.
            ____________________________________________________________________________________

            Law of Nations, Vattel, 1758
            Book 1, Ch. 19

            § 212. Citizens and natives.

            “The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all
            their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born.
            I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.”
            ____________________________________________________________________________________

            Ben Franklin letter December 9, 1775, thanking Charles Dumas for 3 copies of the Law of Nations:

            “…I am much obliged by the kind present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when the circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult the law of nations. Accordingly that copy, which I kept, (after depositing one in our own public library here, and sending the other to the College of Massachusetts Bay, as you directed,) has been continually in the hands of the members of our Congress, now sitting, who are much pleased with your notes and preface, and have entertained a high and just esteem for their author…”
            ____________________________________________________________________________________

            To George Washington from John Jay, 25 July 1787

            From John Jay

            New York 25 July 1787

            Dear Sir

            I was this morning honored with your Excellency’s Favor of the 22d
            Inst: & immediately delivered the Letter it enclosed to Commodore
            Jones, who being detained by Business, did not go in the french Packet,
            which sailed Yesterday.

            Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise & seasonable to
            provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the
            administration of our national Government, and to declare
            expressly that the Command in chief of the american army shall not be given to, nor devolved on, any but a natural born Citizen.

            Mrs Jay is obliged by your attention, and assures You of her perfect

            Esteem & Regard—with similar Sentiments the most cordial and sincere

            I remain Dear Sir Your faithful Friend & Servt

            John Jay

      3. You have to go back 10 years and make a Democratic policy somehow the fault of Conservatives when W wasn’t one when I can got back about 20 minutes to find evidence of things the left is currently doing to destroy America. Keep smoking dope Linda and keep refusing to define ocholocracy for fear I will embarass the **** out of you in front of everyone!

      4. Conservatives hate America

        Given your Socialist leanings, by definition everyone to the right of you would be considered a Conservative. That would of course be a false conclusion. There are many degrees of separation between folks that believe like you and that definable percentage that would identify as Conservative. We don’t hate America. Quite the opposite.

        This is a very good article that describes today’s Conservative. It identifies four pillars of conservatism. I happen to agree with all four, but for argument sake, we at a minimum need the first and third.

        The third pillar is the rule of law. Conservatism is based on the belief that it is crucial to have a legal system that is predictable, that allows people to know what the rules are and enforce those rules equally for all. This means that both governors and the governed are subject to the law. The rule of law promotes prosperity and protects liberty. Put simply, a government of laws and not of men is the only way to secure justice.
        https://home.isi.org/pillars-modern-american-conservatism

    1. Propagandists like you are winning for now. The American public is not a barometer on facts, PT Barnum recognized that, why don’t you?

      2. Your arrogance in defiance of the wisdom of the popular will is astonishing. Maybe you’d do better in some communist paradise. Politburo Comrade YNOT sounds about right. How are you set for black Karakuls? Just a thought. Polls are facts – imperfect maybe but facts just the same. your whinings are not facts, they’re just pathetically naive assertions.

        1. Polls are influenced by propagandists like you. Defiance of popular will is how progress is made, moron.

  19. “Several sources are being cited for a story this morning that President Donald Trump asked Andrew McCabe, then the acting Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation, who he had voted for in the presidential election.”

    ***************************

    When will the lesson be learned that you can trust the WaPo and its anonymous “source”s about as much as you can trust Baghdad Bob?

  20. He should have asked him who are the members of the “secret society” and give him details of the “insurance policy” to keep the legal citizens of the United States from choosing their president.

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