White House counsel's office warned Trump not to fire Chris Wray

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has come so close to firing FBI Director Christopher Wray in recent months that the White House counsel’s office has warned him not to do so because it could put him in potential legal jeopardy, according to a senior administration official with direct knowledge of the discussion and a U.S. official familiar with the discussion.

White House lawyers “strongly” advised Trump against firing another FBI director out of concern that doing so would risk creating the perception that a “loyalty test” was being imposed on a position that traditionally has maintained independence from the White House, according to the senior administration official.

The lawyers, led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, specifically said that firing Wray could spark legal issues similar to those raised after Trump ousted James Comey as FBI director in 2017 in the midst of the Russia investigation, the officials said.

Their concern was that firing Wray could be seen as retaliation because the president has publicly pressured him to take specific actions on certain investigations — such as announcing a probe into President-elect Joe Biden’s son — and then expressed frustration that Wray has not followed his suggestions.

The White House declined to comment on the president’s current thinking about firing members of his administration. “If the president doesn’t have confidence in someone he will let you know,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement. “We have no personnel announcements at this time.”

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>>12050344

If based on the Fake stream Media, Trump is on his way out, why the hell does it matter who he fires and why?

Wray has not been transparent at all. Sat on evidence and info, lied to congress, etc. It's really too late to salvage any of these 3 letter agencies, and if that leaves some "good ones" with butt hurt? TOUGH! They should have spoken up long ago.

The COVID Vaccine Could Temporarily Paralyze This Body Part, FDA Warns

Less than a week after Pfizer's highly effective vaccine was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), more good news came when the agency stated that it plans to approve another highly effective vaccine from pharmaceutical company Moderna as soon as the end of the week. But the FDA also met these announcements with a warning for doctors that the COVID vaccine from both companies could potentially cause a strange side effect: Bell's palsy, which is temporary facial paralysis. Read on to see what the agency says about this issue, and for more on your inoculation, check out If You Cut the Line for the COVID Vaccine, It Could Have This Scary Effect.

The heads up for medical professionals to keep an eye out for the condition came after a 54-page staff report released on Dec. 15 stated that four cases of Bell's palsy—a condition that causes half of your face to droop temporarily—were observed in Moderna's 30,000-person clinical trial, including one case of a patient who developed the condition after taking a placebo, CNBC reports. Pfizer's 43,000-person clinical trial also reported four cases of Bell's palsy, all in participants who had taken the vaccine and not the placebo.

However, while the agency felt it was important to make medical professionals aware of the potential side effect, they reiterated that there was insufficient data to tie the issue to the doses patients received. Agency staff wrote that any connection had yet to be established "because the number of cases was small and not more frequent than expected in the general population."

"There were no other notable patterns or numerical imbalances between treatment groups for specific categories of adverse events, including other neurologic, neuro-inflammatory, and thrombotic events, that would suggest a causal relationship to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine," they clarified in the report.

The news comes days after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said they would monitor recipients of Pfizer's vaccine but found "no known or expected causal relationship between the vaccine and Bell's palsy" on Dec. 11. "Post authorization safety and effectiveness studies will be critical as well. Specifically, surveillance for Bell's palsy could help determine any possible causal relationship," Sara Oliver, MD, an officer at the CDC, said during the agency's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) panel that made the announcement.

The CDC and other experts have also warned of some other common, non-dangerous side effects of the COVID vaccine. Read on to see what they are, and for more on who may wind up getting you sick, check out This Is the Person Who Is Most Likely to Give You COVID, Study Finds.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/covid-vaccine-could-temporarily-paralyze-112809137.html

>>12050897

Cheating for OBAMA!!

>>12050930

Thinking about the EO's, yesterday there was a picture of Trump, Dan, and other's at the WH. Potus was sitting at his desk, and over in the front left corner of the picture, on the side table, it looked like 3 EO's sitting there.