Trump asked the acting FBI director how he voted during Oval Office meeting - Polidicks

[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-asked-the-acting-fbi-director-whom-he-voted-for-during-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/23/2cb50818-0073-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_mccabe-815pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.cab5d408b851[/url] [quote]Shortly after President Trump fired his FBI director in May, he summoned to the Oval Office the bureau’s acting director for a get-to-know-you meeting. The two men exchanged pleasantries, but before long, Trump, according to several current and former U.S. officials, asked Andrew McCabe a pointed question: Whom did he vote for in the 2016 election? McCabe said he didn’t vote, according to the officials, who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about a sensitive matter. Trump, the officials said, also vented his anger at McCabe over the several hundred thousand dollars in donations that his wife, a Democrat, received for her failed 2015 Virginia state Senate bid from a political action committee controlled by a close friend of Hillary Clinton.[/quote] [quote]One person said the Trump-McCabe conversation is of interest to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III[/quote]

Why the fuck does Trump think he's entitled to know who McCabe did or did not vote for!?

[QUOTE=TestECull;53077285]Why the fuck does Trump think he's entitled to know who McCabe did or did not vote for!?[/QUOTE] Because he tries his damndest to run the US of A as a tin-pot dictatorship.

[QUOTE=TestECull;53077285]Why the fuck does Trump think he's entitled to know who McCabe did or did not vote for!?[/QUOTE] Maybe a less direct way of finding out who kisses the ring.

[QUOTE=TestECull;53077285]Why the fuck does Trump think he's entitled to know who McCabe did or did not vote for!?[/QUOTE] Because "loyalty" is his thing. Think back to the dinner conversation he had with Comey.

[quote] Trump, the officials said, also vented his anger at McCabe over the several hundred thousand dollars in donations that his wife, a Democrat, received for her failed 2015 Virginia state Senate bid from a political action committee controlled by a close friend of Hillary Clinton.[/quote] Why, oh why am I not even the tiniest bit surprised?

I'd like to think he'd take care when talking to FBI directors as it didn't exactly go smoothly with the last one but then again i wonder if i'm being too optimistic by even thinking that Trump actually feels like he handled Comey badly or not.

[QUOTE=TestECull;53077285]Why the fuck does Trump think he's entitled to know who McCabe did or did not vote for!?[/QUOTE] It's just some friendly "oval office talk"

[QUOTE=Dr McNinja;53077415]I'd like to think he'd take care when talking to FBI directors as it didn't exactly go smoothly with the last one but then again i wonder if i'm being too optimistic by even thinking that Trump actually feels like he handled Comey badly or not.[/QUOTE] he most assuredly thinks he handled Comey fine, it was just [I]everyone else[/I] who fucked up

White House response: [URL="https://www.axios.com/white-house-trumps-conversations-with-m-were-non-substantive-1516824186-b99279a4-4d40-4c60-97e7-d2a09d4f9a6f.html?source=sidebar"]White House: Trump's conversations with McCabe were "non-substantive"[/URL] [QUOTE]White House: Trump's conversations with McCabe were "non-substantive" Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that President Trump's conversations with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe were "limited" and "non-substantive." She did not comment on whether Trump asked McCabe who he voted for in 2016, saying she was not in the room. The backdrop: The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Trump asked then-Acting Director McCabe who he voted for in the 2016 election during an Oval Office conversation shortly after James Comey was fired. McCabe reportedly found the conversation "disturbing."[/QUOTE] edit: Lol the RNC chair is saying trump "just wanted to get to know wray" [QUOTE]Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel on Wednesday defended President Donald Trump for asking then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe last year how he voted in the 2016 presidential election, saying the president was just trying to get to know him. "I ask people who they vote for sometimes," McDaniel said on CNN’s "New Day." "I think it is just trying to get to know somebody." [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-asked-the-acting-fbi-director-whom-he-voted-for-during-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/23/2cb50818-0073-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?utm_term=.33184b0e757d"]The Washington Post[/URL] reported Tuesday that Trump asked McCabe about his vote in May during a “get-to-know-you” meeting. McCabe became acting director after the president fired former FBI Director James Comey. McCabe told Trump he didn’t vote. McDaniel said Trump was just being conversational and that he doesn't demand that information from everyone in government.[/QUOTE] [URL]https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/24/trump-andrew-mccabe-fbi-vote-364627[/URL]

[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53079009]White House: Trump's conversations with McCabe were "non-substantive"[/QUOTE] Could replace "McCabe" with literally anyone and get the same effect.

[quote]Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that President Trump's conversations with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe were "limited" and "non-substantive." [B]She did not comment on whether Trump asked McCabe who he voted for in 2016, saying she was not in the room[/B].[/quote] I hate how this administrations press briefings always boil down to "I wasn't there, I don't know, next question". What is even the point of you if you don't know? Isn't her entire job supposed to be knowing the answers to these questions and relaying them to the press? It's like working at the grocery store and when someone says "yeah hi, where is the pasta?" you just say "I don't know, I didn't stock it".

[QUOTE=srobins;53079587]I hate how this administrations press briefings always boil down to "I wasn't there, I don't know, next question". What is even the point of you if you don't know? Isn't her entire job supposed to be knowing the answers to these questions and relaying them to the press? It's like working at the grocery store and when someone says "yeah hi, where is the pasta?" you just say "I don't know, I didn't stock it".[/QUOTE] Her entire job is ensuring that people's questions don't get answered but for the ones the President wants answered. Anything else either didn't happen, she hasn't asked the President's opinion on it, is a gross or ridiculous question, or is simply 'the President has already made his thoughts clear on the subject' without ever adding on any clarifying information to that statement - even if it's felt that people don't think he's made his thoughts clear on the statement. That's her entire job. It's not what it's supposed to be -- but it is the job this Presidency has for her.

There is no reasonable basis to argue that this is anything other than wildly inappropriate.

If you questioned Lynch's conversation with Bill Clinton but don't care about this, I question your priorities.