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Trump may have broken a personal tweetstorm record on Saturday morning, when starting shortly after 6:30am, in a furious blast of ten tweets (and still going), Trump lashed out at the “Amazon Washington Post”, the “failing New York Times”, touched on his right to pardon, questioned why the Attorney General isn’t looking at the “many Hillary Clinton or Comey crimes” and the “33,000 emails deleted”, asked “what about the Clinton ties to Russia including Podesta Company, Uranium deal, Russian reset, big dollar speeches”, compared Donald Jr.’s email disclosure to Hillary Clinton’s email deletion “and acid wash” of her 33,000 emails, slammed “dead ObamaCare”, and finally (at least for now) slammed both Republican senators who must “step up to the plate and vote to Repeal and Replace”, as well as Democrat Senators who are “obstructionists, no ideas or votes.”<\/p>\n
The tweet that has attracted the most media attention so far, is Trump’s assertion that he has \u201ccomplete power to pardon\u201d following reports that he was discussing his ability to pardon people in the ongoing investigation into ties between his campaign and Russia. \u201cWhile all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us.FAKE NEWS.\u201d<\/p>\n
The WaPo reported last week that Trump\u2019s new lawyers are looking into his authority to grant pardons in the special counsel\u2019s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The Post also said that Trump has also talked to his advisers about his ability to pardon his aides, family members and even himself in the investigation.<\/p>\n
One adviser who spoke to the newspaper said the president\u2019s inquiries were merely made out of curiosity. \u201cThis is not in the context of, \u2018I can\u2019t wait to pardon myself,’\u201d the adviser said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile on Friday, the White House on Friday would not rule out the possibility that Trump would issue pardons in the investigation. \u201cThe president maintains pardon powers like any president would,\u201d White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, but added that \u201cthere are no announcements\u201d about pardons at this time.<\/p>\n
Additionally, in one of the more bizarre tweets, Trump alleged The New York Times \u201cfoiled\u201d a U.S. attack on the leader of the Islamic State, Al-Baghdadi despite conflicting reports over the past two weeks that he may have been killed in a Russian air strike, suggesting the paper has a \u201csick agenda\u201d that hurts national security.<\/p>\n
\nThe Failing New York Times foiled U.S. attempt to kill the single most wanted terrorist,Al-Baghdadi.Their sick agenda over National Security<\/p>\n
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n