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Trump said the office of special counsel Robert Mueller is full of conflicts of interest.
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The president claimed his second, Canada Goose Jackets previously undisclosed meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin lasted 15 minutes and “adoption” came up.
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“Never in my life as a political scientist have I seen two countries major countries with a constellation of national interests that are as dissonant while the two leaders seem to be doing everything possible to canadian goose jacket make nice and be close to each other,” Bremmer told Bloomberg’s Charlie Rose.
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“In my opinion, he shared it so that I would think he had it out there,” Mr. Trump said. As leverage? “Yeah, I think so,” Mr. Trump said. “In retrospect.”
The president dismissed the assertions in the dossier: “When he brought it to me, I said this is really, made up junk. I didn’t think about any of it. intelligence agents decided he should be told before anything was published by the media. Comey said the president again denied anything alleged in the document was accurate during a private dinner later that month and urged the then director to investigate the material.
buy canada goose jacket “I replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him personally, which we weren’t, and because it was very difficult to prove a negative,” Comey said in his prepared remarks. “He said he would think about it and asked me to think about it.” buy canada goose jacket
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Trump complained about Rosenstein, describing him as a man Sessions “hardly knew” and alluding that he was annoyed the deputy attorney general was “from Baltimore.”
“I said, ‘Who’s your deputy?’ So his deputy he hardly knew, and that’s Rosenstein, Rod Rosenstein, who is from Baltimore. There are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any. So, he’s from Baltimore.”
He has been described as the “poster child for the professional, competent, ethical and fair minded prosecutor,” and hetold The Baltimore Sun in April he was ready to take up the No. 2 job at the Justice Department “without regard to partisan political consideration.”
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