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PoliGAF 2017 |OT4| The leaks are coming from inside the white house

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Foffy

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Teggy said:
Losing sessions means losing the racist pushing all your drug and immigration policy. Then you fire Mueller which starts a shitstorm of epic proportions. This is a good plan for them how?
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If you stomp out the firefighters, nobody can report on the smoke.
 
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PantherLotus

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This is 100% trump driven to move Sessions out. Remember Sessions can't fire Mueller which is clearly at the top of Trump's mind right now. This is transparent as hell.

Things are going to move fast.
 
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AntraxSuicide

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Why would Trump be responsible for this just to get at Mueller? He can just fire Rosenstein. If Trump is throwing Sessions under the bus, it's just because Sessions recused himself and Trump is mad.
 
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Abinash117

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The journalist who wrote the story had the information for awhile, so it doesn't look like Trump leaked it. The journalist does not think the meeting in itself is a big deal, but the fact that the administration keeps lying and not disclosing. It looks like a cover up, which is pretty obvious at this point.
 
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Scirrocco

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aspiegamer said:
The GOP gamed the system under Obama to make sure the Senate never "officially" goes out of session, specifically to prevent recess appointments. I can't see why Democrats wouldn't be able to do the same thing now.
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How did they do it? Majority parties have a lot more power, so just because the GOP did it doesmmnt mean dems can too.
 
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skullmuffins

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Trump Assigns White House Team to Target Iran Nuclear Deal, Sidelining State Department

This isn't great. Trump is intent on killing the Iran nuclear agreement. Tillerson and top officials (McMaster, Mattis, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff) are saying there's no reason to decertify, so Trump is setting up a White House team to get the result he wants.

After a contentious meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this week, President Donald Trump instructed a group of trusted White House staffers to make the potential case for withholding certification of Iran at the next 90-day review of the nuclear deal. The goal was to give Trump what he felt the State Department had failed to do: the option to declare that Tehran was not in compliance with the contentious agreement.

”The president assigned White House staffers with the task of preparing for the possibility of decertification for the 90-day review period that ends in October — a task he had previously given to Secretary Tillerson and the State Department," a source close to the White House told Foreign Policy.
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On Tuesday, Trump relayed this new assignment to a group of White House staffers now tasked with making sure there will not be a repeat at the next 90-day review. ”This is the president telling the White House that he wants to be in a place to decertify 90 days from now and it's their job to put him there," the source said.

FP spoke with three sources who were either invited to take part in the new process or were briefed on the president's decision on certification. All described the new process as a way to work around the State Department, which the president felt pushed certification forward by giving him no other options.
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Trump ”is resolved to not recertify deal in 90 days," said a second source with detailed knowledge of this week's meeting and the aftermath.
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The three sources told FP that, as of Friday, several NSC staffers are expected to be involved including top Middle East advisor Derek Harvey; Joel Rayburn, the director for Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria; Michael Anton, who handles strategic communications; and Victoria Coates, who works as Anton's deputy on strategic communications. Bannon and Gorka, who are both regarded as Iran hawks, are also expected to take part.
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Although most of Trump's deputies endorsed certifying that Iran was abiding by the deal, one senior figure has emerged in favor of a more aggressive approach — CIA Director Mike Pompeo. At White House deliberations, the former lawmaker opposed certifying Iran while suggesting Congress weigh in on the issue, officials and sources close to the administration said. As a congressman, Pompeo was a fierce critic of the deal.

The CIA declined to comment about Pompeo's stance on certifying Iran.

The move to sideline Foggy Bottom will likely confirm the worst fears of State Department officials, who expected some form of backlash from the White House given Trump's stance during the 2016 campaign and the appointment of those seen as Iran hawks.

Tillerson is ”trying to be a counterweight against the hard-liners, trying to save the [nuclear deal], but how long can that last?" one senior State Department official told FP, speaking on condition of anonymity. ”The White House, they see the State Department as ‘the swamp.'"
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Trouble

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AntraxSuicide said:
Why would Trump be responsible for this just to get at Mueller? He can just fire Rosenstein. If Trump is throwing Sessions under the bus, it's just because Sessions recused himself and Trump is mad.
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I'm gonna go with Occam's Razor and just assume that Sessions being a liar and a traitor just caught up to him at a bad time. If Trump were actually any good at strategy Obamacare would be repealed.
 
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sangreal

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Iirc the GOP was only able to block recess appointments as the minority because they had the house majority and kept it in session. Even though the house has nothing to do with appointments

And of course bush ignored these fake sessions for pocket vetoes
 
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Kusagari

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skullmuffins said:
Trump Assigns White House Team to Target Iran Nuclear Deal, Sidelining State Department

This isn't great. Trump is intent on killing the Iran nuclear agreement. Tillerson and top officials (McMaster, Mattis, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff) are saying there's no reason to decertify, so Trump is setting up a White House team to get the result he wants.
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So Trump is basically pissed at Tillerson for not lying to him and giving him some bullshit reason to break the deal.
 
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skullmuffins

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Kusagari said:
So Trump is basically pissed at Tillerson for not lying to him and giving him some bullshit reason to break the deal.
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Yeah. So he's putting top minds like Bannon, Gorka, and Michael Anton on the case.

The three sources told FP that, as of Friday, several NSC staffers are expected to be involved including top Middle East advisor Derek Harvey; Joel Rayburn, the director for Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria; Michael Anton, who handles strategic communications; and Victoria Coates, who works as Anton's deputy on strategic communications. Bannon and Gorka, who are both regarded as Iran hawks, are also expected to take part.
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JettDash

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skullmuffins said:
Trump Assigns White House Team to Target Iran Nuclear Deal, Sidelining State Department

This isn't great. Trump is intent on killing the Iran nuclear agreement. Tillerson and top officials (McMaster, Mattis, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff) are saying there's no reason to decertify, so Trump is setting up a White House team to get the result he wants.
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What does he think he will accomplish? No other country will agree to resume sanctions and Iran will not renegotiate.

Maybe he will get a call from his boss telling him not to do it.
 
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sphagnum

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JettDash said:
What does he think he will accomplish? No other country will agree to resume sanctions and Iran will not renegotiate.

Maybe he will get a call from his boss telling him not to do it.
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He thinks Iran will not follow the deal anyway, so he's going to look strong by being threatening to them.
 
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JettDash

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It makes no sense that Trump would leak a story suggesting high level collusion between his campaign and Russia just to throw Sessions under the bus.

sphagnum said:
He thinks Iran will not follow the deal anyway, so he's going to look strong by being threatening to them.
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He wouldn't have to assign people that will produce the result he wants and sideline the State Department then.
 
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Officerrob

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Ernest

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skullmuffins said:
Trump Assigns White House Team to Target Iran Nuclear Deal, Sidelining State Department

This isn't great. Trump is intent on killing the Iran nuclear agreement. Tillerson and top officials (McMaster, Mattis, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff) are saying there's no reason to decertify, so Trump is setting up a White House team to get the result he wants.
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And the only reason Trump wants to kill the Iran deal is because Obama did it, and Fox News told him it was a bad thing.

And he's gonna alienate the only adults he has in the room (Mattis, McMaster & Tillerson).
At the end, all he's gonna have in his corner is his idiot family.
 
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ArkhamFantasy

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Made in America week.

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