do you mind explaining the trump scandal? i don't really understand what's happening. thanks!
So, Iâll make this post kind of my base of operations for the ensuing Trumpocalypse, which means Iâll try to explain as much as possible and update/reblog this post as new information becomes available. Thatâll be hard because, like I said last week, New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN are tumbling over each other trying to break this piece leak by leak.
tl:dr - Weâre in the early days of one of the biggest news stories of our generation, in which the President is being actively investigated for treason.Â
Okay, so this all started with that resignation, right?
That was what woke the country up to how big of a deal everything is. General Michael Flynn resigned as Donald Trumpâs National Security Adviser on February 13th after it was leaked to the Wall Street Journal that Flynn was under investigation for some phone calls heâd had with Russia.
Whatâs so bad about that?
The U.S. intelligence community, as you probably remember, found evidence late last year that confirmed Russia had intentions of influencing our election. Barack Obama retaliated by placing sanctions on Russia. Flynnâs calls with Russia took place that same day, right after the announcement of the sanctions. Flynn told Russia âYou donât have to worry about those sanctions,â suggesting the new administration planning to lift them.
Wait, how do we know all this?
Donald Trump is a jackass who thinks he knows more than everybody, even the people who know the most about everything on Earth, the United States intelligence community. The FBI, CIA, NSA, our spies, military intelligence, etc. are currently proving the worth of their years of privacy violations. They always said âWe only do this to protect America,â and while Iâm not ready to say thatâs true, thatâs definitely what theyâre using their intel for now. The intelligence community, based on their intel, believes the Trump White House is penetrated by the Kremlin, and they donât take kindly to being insulted by Dumbass Donnie, so they happily leak intel to the press to push Congress to investigate. Some even suspect the sanctions themselves were a coordinated effort by the intelligence community and President Obama to bait the Trump campaign into trapping themselves.
Okay, so they want to lift the sanctions. Arenât they allowed to do that?
Yes, but then comes another leak. The NSA confirms Trumpâs campaign was in âconstant contactâ with the Russians throughout the election. Put the pieces together: Trumpâs campaign in contact with Russia + Russia hacking Hillary Clintonâs emails + Trump winning + Trump campaign lifting sanctions against Russia for the crime Russia committed that helped Trump win = âŠ
Equals the Trump campaign colluding with a foreign power to execute an act of espionage against the United States.
But how can they prove Donald Trump knew anything about this?
In comes the latest leak from literally less than twelve hours ago. Guess who told Flynn to call the Russians? Guess who told him what to say? It was Trumpâs close friend, the lawyer of the Trump Foundation, Michael Cohen. Thatâs just the cherry on top of the leak last week that Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General who was fired for refusing to enforce the Muslim Ban, straight up told the Trump administration that Michael Flynn had contact with the Russians the day the sanctions were imposed, AND told them the content of those calls. That was a full month before Flynn resigned. He only resigned after the intelligence community leaked it to the press.Â
Welp, the GOP isnât going to investigate anyway.
Itâs not up to them. The committees that would call for investigation are bipartisan. One of them, the Intelligence Committee is headed up by Senator Richard Burr from my home state of North Carolina. Heâs one of the many senators, like Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Lisa Murkowski, and John McCain, who would salivate at the chance to take down Donald Trump. Any other president would have a decent GOP wall to protect them. Donnie does not. Even if he did, it wouldnât matter. The intelligence community would keep leaking intel until they had to.
So, where are we in this whole process?
The FBI briefed Congress Friday on the Trump campaigns connections to Russia. Three different bipartisan committees have opened up investigations, the Intelligence committee, the Armed Services committee, and the Foreign Relations committee. These are separate investigations from the ongoing FBI probes, of which there are currently three active. Democrats want to establish a special committee to open a fourth investigation, and some even more aggressive Dems want a special prosecutor brought in to open a fifth investigation.
But they wonât impeach him, will they?
The trouble here for Donnie is that weâre not talking about lying under oath or covering up burglary. Weâre not talking about conspiracy or bribery or destroying evidence. Weâre talking about treason. Congress can choose not to impeach all they want. When the FBI takes Donnie away in handcuffs, itâs over.
But then Mike Pence becomes president, which is even worse.
First of all, no itâs not worse, you dumb shits. Second of all, every member of the Trump campaign who knew about any of this is going down. That include Pence, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, and the rest of the Dark Brady Bunch.
So then who becomes the President.
Gross, but heâs kinda hot.
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