What was Trump thinking when approving to release the memo?

coup d'etat

I do sometimes wonder whether people actually read what has been posted.
The Steele document is there to obscure those that don't take time to look at the whole picture.
The FBI's inquiry into links with Russia started in July 2016 after a Australian London Diplomat reported it, and the info was passed to the FBI.
The Steele Dossier was written between June and October 2016.

Please take note of the dates and tell me how the hell a dossier not completed until October could be used to start an inquiry that started in July.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html

During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign.

Exactly how much Mr. Papadopoulos said that night at the Kensington Wine Rooms with the Australian, Alexander Downer, is unclear. But two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts, according to four current and former American and foreign officials with direct knowledge of the Australians’ role.

The Republican memo shows they are barking at the moon.

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The Republican memo shows they are barking at the moon.

Those republicans must be passing bricks ATM hoping that their so called "memo" can deflect the public away from the real criminals. LOL

Cheers.

I do sometimes wonder whether people actually read what has been posted.
The Steele document is there to obscure those that don't take time to look at the whole picture.
The FBI's inquiry into links with Russia started in July 2016 after a Australian London Diplomat reported it, and the info was passed to the FBI.
The Steele Dossier was written between June and October 2016.

Please take note of the dates and tell me how the hell a dossier not completed until October could be used to start an inquiry that started in July.

Duly noted. But this has no bearing on whether the FISA court was supplied with, from dubious to false(depending on whose interpretation), information, and that information was the basis for, or a major factor in the decision, as was stated by Asst Director McCabe of the FIB........

.@johnrobertsFox: "The person who testified to the Intel. Cmte that there would've been no FISA warrant had it not been for that unverified dossier was none other than the former Deputy Dir. of the @FBI Andrew McCabe, who recently departed in a very hasty fashion."

....to obtain a surveillance warrant, or renew or extend, a surveillance warrant, is a violation of the law and needs to be brought to a Grand Jury.

It is also a GROSS violation of the trust of The People, for which reason that court was established. It was supposed to be a safety net against abuse after the relaxation of "search and seizure" Constitutional rights after 9/11.

The ROOSHUN investigation is a completely separate matter now and Trump is letting that run it's course. Those trying to use the release of 'the memo' as a rallying cry are just another aspect of our two good old friends...........RESIST and REJECT. "Nothing Trump, Ever".

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

But the active and concerted campaign of Fusion GPS, Steele, elements inside the FBI and DOJ to destroy our democracy and Rule of Law by using the Power of Government. Must be harshly dealt with.

You are seeing a boogie man which does not exist. On this subject we disagree.

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A Washington Post article (The Nunes memo wasn’t meant to win over everyone — just 34 senators) starts with the line;

“When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing.”

Which looks good if it came from a Democrat, but it didn't, it was from a tweet of White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Nov. 3, 2016.

45 is saying total vindication, perhaps he'll believe it, shut up and the investigation can get busy and indict every member of his family and refer to the unindicted co-conspirator.

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Which is the Criminal and Corrupt Abuse of Government Power to sway an election. Is hopefully doomed to failure.

Not criminal abuse of power but the proper use of law enforcement. Trump has a decades long, well documented history of disregarding the law.
The fact is that the wire taps conformed to FISA requirements and the so called Nunes report did not even allege any laws were broken.
Nunes is resorting to McCarthyism in that the argument is because a report was published you must be guilty.

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Are you now or have you ever had contact with a Russian?

The fact is that Steele presented evidence is moot there is other much stronger evidence to justify the FISA warrant. Steele who has a decades long career of being a reliable source is just icing on the cake.
As an aside I ask if one is biased does that necessarily mean your evidence is wrong? As an example I am against human trafficking does that mean any evidence I would provide should be ignored?

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The fact is that Steele presented evidence is moot there is other much stronger evidence to justify the FISA warrant. Steele who has a decades long career of being a reliable source is just icing on the cake.
As an aside I ask if one is biased does that necessarily mean your evidence is wrong? As an example I am against human trafficking does that mean any evidence I would provide should be ignored?

What else could it mean? Its politics where the other side is guilty even when proved innocent.

Or is it the SOP method of every cop getting a warrant? You know, just tell the things likely to get the warrant and hope the court doesn't ask any inconvenient questions.

Oh what wonderful tax cuts, Washington Post - Paul Ryan celebrated the tax cut with a tweet

Nick since the link you posted is behind a paywall for me here is another link to the story.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/paul-ryan-deletes-tweet-connecting-woman%E2%80%99s-tiny-raise-to-tax-cut/ar-BBIEN88?li=BBnbcA1

House Speaker Paul Ryan deleted a tweet Saturday afternoon that had drawn immediate and widespread ridicule for advertising a woman’s $1.50-a-week raise as an impressive result of the GOP tax cut.

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Oh what wonderful tax cuts,

.......and the other hand taketh away.............

State of New York has passed a Family Leave bill, reimbursing parents for 6 weeks of paid leave to bond with newborns or to care for family members.

A laudable idea probably very popular............here's the problem. The program will be paid out of a New Payroll Tax of 1%(OK, it's being paid for). This program is being touted as better than individuals saving on their own to provide for the leave time with the 'pop' line...."It'll be there when you need it."...............

A quick calculation reveals per capita average income for NY residents in 2016 was aprox. $63,000. The population estimate for 2018 is aprox. 19,860,000. If we postulate an average family of 3(gives a rough allowance for larger and single person households), that gives 6,620,000 household incomes @ $63,000 x 1% or a 'Leave Fund' of $4 Billion per year of Tax Revenue.

Given Government's track record with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other 'trust' funds, how long do you think it will take before the 'temporary borrowing for other "more pressing needs"' starts to occur?

2 weeks? 2 days? 2 minutes?

Another Ponzi scheme for the Politician's retirement and golden parachute fund.

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Given Government's track record with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other 'trust' funds, how long do you think it will take before the 'temporary borrowing for other "more pressing needs"' starts to occur?

Wasn't it the fiscally conservative Reagan who raided Soc Sec?

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-congressman-coordinated-white-house-russia-memo-democratic/story?id=52818825
Just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Will the entire GOP eventually be involved in the coverup?

Will the entire GOP eventually be involved in the coverup?

Probably not, just the leadership.

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BBC Video showing why the UK and presumably the US need immigrants.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cornwall-42932862/brits-try-eu-migrants-vegetable-picking-jobs-in-cornwall