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Why did he ask Intel chiefs to deny collusion?

Trump is doing what many congress critters are doing - asking for Russian election meddling/Trump campaign collusion investigation status updates. It seems a completely reasonable request since we seem to have had about 100 agents working on this investigation for about 9 months now and constant press reporting of odds and ends of alleged results. Asking for an official status report explaining the progress (or lack thereof) for such a substantial investigation effort is not unreasonable.
 
If true, the people who made the accusations need to step forward, be identified, and stand by their remarks. As it stands, there is no basis from which one can make an evaluation of the veracity of the claims. For example, the anonymously sourced rumor that Trump exposed intelligence in his meeting with Lavrov has little to no credibility in that McMasters, who actually attended the meeting, and other attendees have publicly stated that no such thing happened. I'll go with those credible sources willing to state such things publicly every time over anonymus sources hiding in the shadows.
 
katzgar said:
The guy just gets in it deeper I guess.

Trump Reportedly Asked Intelligence Chiefs to Deny Collusion Evidence | Vanity Fair
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The problem with stories like this are other stories like this that are mentioned in stories like this.
Huh?
I mean this ...
Last week, The New York Times reported that Trump explicitly asked Comey, then the director of the F.B.I., to shutter his agency’s investigation into Mike Flynn, the former national security adviser who resigned amid scandal in February. “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” the president said, according to a memo that Comey prepared after the meeting, part of which was read to the Times. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
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I'm sorry, but hoping someone can see their way clear to do something does not sound the same as asking them to do it.
I've noted this before ... if the intention is to convey equal significance why not use the same words?
 
katzgar said:
The guy just gets in it deeper I guess.

Trump Reportedly Asked Intelligence Chiefs to Deny Collusion Evidence | Vanity Fair
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It's honestly difficult to say at this point if it's because he's genuinely terrified about crimes that will see the light of day as a result of the investigation, or if he's just so mind-bendingly insecure that he sees all of this as nothing more than a giant scheme to delegitimize the results of an election he can scarce believe himself.

One possibility that people need to brace themselves for is that at the center of all of this isn't collusion, but rather just a very frightened, foolish and stupid little man. With all the smoke that has surrounded this issue that can seem too fantastical to accept, but we're also still making assumptions that at some level of Trump's psyche there is a rational human being, and maybe we should have let that assumption go by now.
 
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