Cummings: There 'very well may be' connection between Bharara firing and investigations into Trump

[Norm Lenhart]

Answer the question then.

[INVAR]

Given the reality of this post-Constitutional era we now exist in, and having the benefit of understanding that keeping on Democrat appointed holdovers was a lesson in sabotage, I am perfectly good with Trump wiping the entire slate of Obama-appointed judges and Obama-appointed anyones - clean.

Goose and gander thing to begin with, and more to do with preserving your own administration/regime from what will be judicial sabotage.

Then again, I am of the opinion that this country needs a complete reset in terms of expunging Mordor on the Potomac from the corrupted miasma of tyrants that it is.

[txradioguy]

Answer the question then.

I did.  I said I haven't changed.

Your turn Normie.

[Norm Lenhart]

I did.  I said I haven't changed.

Your turn Normie.

No you didn't. You ducked it then accused me of changing the goalposts like a leftist.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Norm you can repost this question all you want.  My answer back to you is the same...and the fact you can't answer what I posed and just want to go the blind follower route and claim anyone questioning Trump's motives or asking why he lied to this Prosecutor wants the Dems in power is not only stupid...but really beneath you.

Why is it now suddenly a traitorous act to ask why the President gave his word then took it back?  Because it's Trump are we suddenly not allowed to do what people have done with the previous 44 Presidents in our history?

He asked him to stay on, but for how long?  Unless he promised that was going to be for his entire term -- which I sincerely doubt -- I don't see what the issue is with keeping him on for a limited period only.  There are still a buttload of appointments to be made, and perhaps Trump didn't want to have all those offices emptied at the same time.

By the same token, I'd imagine the Democrat foot-dragging post-Inauguration on confirmations may have factored into this.  They are hoping to keep Obama appointees in office for as long as possible by refusing to confirm Trump's nominees.  Given that tactic, Trump have have figured/been advised that if the Dems were going to paly hardball with appointments, than he'd have to do it as well.

[txradioguy]

He asked him to stay on, but for how long?  Unless he promised that was going to be for his entire term -- which I sincerely doubt -- I don't see what the issue is with keeping him on for a limited period only.  There are still a buttload of appointments to be made, and perhaps Trump didn't want to have all those offices emptied at the same time.

Then like I said earlier either the President or his Press Secretary need to clarify what happened.  The longer this festers and boils in the media without a clear and definitive statement from this administration about what happened with this case...the more time the media gets to control and dictate the narrative.

For all we know...you're right he asked him to stay on for X amount of time and then he was gone.  By the same token for all we know he asked Bharara to serve out the rest of his term and stabbed him in the back.

Only the WH can fully answer that question and they are punting to the DoJ who is saying "no comment".

By the same token, I'd imagine the Democrat foot-dragging post-Inauguration on confirmations may have factored into this.  They are hoping to keep Obama appointees in office for as long as possible by refusing to confirm Trump's nominees.  Given that tactic, Trump have have figured/been advised that if the Dems were going to paly hardball with appointments, than he'd have to do it as well.

Again...unless we hear something definitive from the WH...no one knows...and that's not a good thing.  Silence allows the media and the Libs to create the story and turn fiction into fact where this is concerned.

[driftdiver]

Then like I said earlier either the President or his Press Secretary need to clarify what happened. 

@txradioguy

Why?   Because people who already disagree with every single thing he does want him to provide more ammo to use against him?

These positions serve the administration and can be fired whenever they want.   This guy should have been fired long ago for his political prosecutions.

[Norm Lenhart]

@txradioguy

Why?   Because people who already disagree with every single thing he does want him to provide more ammo to use against him?

We have a winner.

[INVAR]

These positions serve the administration and can be fired whenever they want.   This guy should have been fired long ago for his political prosecutions.

IIRC - firing all Prosecuting US attorneys has been standard practice now since Clinton, because we have adopted the Soviet model of Politics in the government.  It is no longer the rule of law that the federal offices are charged with upholding - now it is the rule of loyalty to the Executive and his political agenda that governs all federal offices.     

The media lectured us after Reno and Holder cleaned the entire slate of Reagan and Bush appointed attorneys that all appointments "serve at the pleasure of the president and he does not need to explain why he is firing them".

Funny how that only applies one way among the Praetorian leftist media.

[Norm Lenhart]

IIRC - firing all Prosecuting US attorneys has been standard practice now since Clinton, because we have adopted the Soviet model of Politics in the government.  It is no longer the rule of law that the federal offices are charged with upholding - now it is the rule of loyalty to the Executive and his political agenda that governs all federal offices.     

The media lectured us after Reno and Holder cleaned the entire slate of Reagan and Bush appointed attorneys that all appointments "serve at the pleasure of the president and he does not need to explain why he is firing them".

Funny how that only applies one way among the Praetorian leftist media.

Who needs the media when we have 'conservatives' that switch positions based on hating a person rather than maintaining a principle?