{"id":1410,"date":"2017-06-07T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/07\/dnc-on-trump-asking-national-intelligence-director-to-intervene-with-comey-on-fbi-probe\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T01:40:00","slug":"dnc-on-trump-asking-national-intelligence-director-to-intervene-with-comey-on-fbi-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-asking-national-intelligence-director-to-intervene-with-comey-on-fbi-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Trump Asking National Intelligence Director to Intervene with Comey on FBI Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/p>\n<style style=\"display:none;\" type=\"text\/css\"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} -->\n<\/style>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" id=\"divtagdefaultwrapper\">\n<p><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">In response to the Washington Post&rsquo;s&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/top-intelligence-official-told-associates-trump-asked-him-if-he-could-intervene-with-comey-to-get-fbi-to-back-off-flynn\/2017\/06\/06\/cc879f14-4ace-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_usrussia-810pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.c6e5b7e78689\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">piece<\/span><\/a><\/i><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><i>&nbsp;that President Trump asked Dan Coats, the top intelligence official in the country, to intervene with Comey on the FBI probe, DNC deputy communications director Adrienne Watson said:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div segoe=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, \" ui=\"\"><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div segoe=\"\" style=\"color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, \" ui=\"\"><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">&ldquo;Our law enforcement and intelligence agencies exist to protect the American people, not to be a protection racket for the President of the United States&nbsp; It is clear now that Trump was not only intent on using his power to shut down an investigation that threatened his presidency, but that he knew what he was doing was wrong. Otherwise, there would be no reason to repeatedly ask everyone to leave the room before pressuring officials<\/span><font color=\"#1F497D\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">&nbsp;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">to get&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/font><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Michael Flynn<\/span><font color=\"#1F497D\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">&nbsp;off the hook<\/span><\/font><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">.<\/span>&nbsp;It&rsquo;s time to stop making excuses for this president.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the Washington Post&rsquo;s&nbsp;piece&nbsp;that President Trump asked Dan Coats, the top intelligence official in the country, to intervene with Comey on the FBI probe, DNC deputy communications director Adrienne Watson said: &nbsp; &ldquo;Our law enforcement and intelligence agencies exist to protect the American people, not to be a protection racket for the President <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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