POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After a week of tumult and negative news, the protective Republican wall around President Donald Trump is starting to crack.
Leading Republican politicians are becoming more vocal in their complaints, while networks are struggling to find Republicans willing to go on-air to defend the president…
‘We’ve seen this movie before,’ Sen. John McCain of Arizona said at a dinner for the International Republican Institute on Tuesday. ‘It’s reaching Watergate size and scale. This is not good for the country.’
Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, tweeted Tuesday [5-16-17] night following news of the Comey memo that he has his ‘subpoena pen ready’ to obtain any memos that may exist of Comey’s conversations with Trump. He said of the latest report: ‘On the surface that seems like an extraordinary use of influence to try to shut down an investigation being done by the FBI.’ “
-Allan Smith, “‘They ought to be careful’: Trump raises eyebrows with heavy promotion of ExxonMobil announcement,” Business Insider, May 17, 2017 11:30am