Trump Fires FBI Director Comey

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Comey also explained how he interpreted Trump's statement in an unusual one-on-one meeting where he asked Comey to let the investigation of security advisor Mike Flynn go.
Under questioning from Sen. James Ritsch, Comey said the exact words Trump words were that he 'hoped' he would let the probe go.
'Those words are not an order,' he acknowledged.
But he also said: 'I took it as a direction. This is the president of the United States with me along saying: "I hope this." I took it as what he wants me to do,' Comey said.
'I was so stunned by the conversation that I just took it in,' he said under questioning from Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Comey dared Trump to release tapes of their meetings: 'I've seen the tweet about tapes. Lordy, I hope there are tapes!'

 

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The bags under Comey's eyes are now huge, you could do your shopping in them.

He looks haggard.

Not his usual cocky self.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Comey explained why he kept detailed memos on his conversations and meetings with the president – something he said he didn't do with President George W. Bush and Barack Obama because there wasn't a need.
'I knew that there might come a day when I would need a record of what had happened, not just to defend myself but to defend the FBI and our integrity as an institution,' Comey said.
'I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting, so I thought it really important to document,' he said.

So Comney took notes of every Trump meeting but none of Crooked Hillary's 3 hour investigation?

^^ Fucking corrupt piece of shit swamp RAT!! ^^

 

[SheriffJoe]

Loretta Lynch Successfully Pressured Comey To Mislead Public Using Clinton Campaign’s Talking Points

PETER HASSON
Associate Editor

11:09 AM 06/08/2017​

Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general under Barack Obama, pressured former FBI Director James Comey to downplay the Clinton email server investigation and only refer to it as a “matter,” Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

Comey added later that he was concerned about that direction as it was false. He was further concerned because it aligned with the Clinton campaign’s spin on the investigation. He said he complied, however, because he believed the media wouldn’t buy into that take on it.

Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Earlier in his testimony, Comey said Lynch instructed Comey not to call the criminal investigation into the Clinton server a criminal investigation. Instead, Lynch told Comey to call it a “matter,” Comey said, “which confused me.”

Comey cited that pressure from Lynch to downplay the investigation as one of the reasons he held a press conference to recommend the Department of Justice not seek to indict Clinton.

Comey also cited Lynch’s secret tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton as a reason he chose to hold the press conference, he said, as he was concerned about preserving the independence of the FBI.

The Clinton campaign consistently sought to mislead the public by denying that Clinton was the subject of an FBI investigation.

Instead, the campaign claimed the investigation was a simple “security inquiry.” Comey said he was concerned by Lynch’s pressure on him and the FBI to use the campaign’s spin, as it appeared it appeared that Lynch was intentionally trying to align the language the FBI was using to match the angle pushed by the Clinton campaign.

 

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Comey is sweating like a pig.

 

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Daniel Richman, professor at Columbia Law School in New York, is an advisor to Comey, who said he passed his memo of a Trump meeting to a friend who gave it to the New York Times. He told a reporter he passed on the document

 

[JDeuce]

Loretta Lynch Successfully Pressured Comey To Mislead Public Using Clinton Campaign’s Talking Points

This is what pisses me off the most. There was no investigation of DJT, yet Comey refused to simply state that. Instead, he waxed on and on about the Clinton "probe" but can't even tell the nation that their president is not under investigation while bold-faced lies were being peddled by the press that he was.

He should have been canned for that alone. We put up with a year of total bullshit because this imbecile refused to tell the public the truth.

 

[SheriffJoe]

This is what pisses me off the most. There was no investigation of DJT, yet Comey refused to simply state that. Instead, he waxed on and on about the Clinton "probe" but can't even tell the nation that their president is not under investigation while bold-faced lies were being peddled by the press that he was.

He should have been canned for that alone. We put up with a year of total bullshit because this imbecile refused to tell the public the truth.

The Crooked Hillary "probe" was fixed long before the tarmac meeting between Slick Willie and Loretta.

Now we have proof Comney was in on it.

Sessions needs to appoint a hard-nosed special prosecutor willing to endure serious death threats to criminally investigate all these crooks, just like Trump promised during the debates or the swamp will eat him alive.

 

[SheriffJoe]

Ho hum, another Comney LIE:

Proof That Comey Lied Under Oath At His Senate Hearing!

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Richard Saunders

Comey lied and said Trump’s tweets caused him to leak to NYT through a Columbia law professor, but the Tweets came after the leaks

Comey memo leaked to the New York Times on May 11 at the latest.

Trump Tweets about tapes – May 12.

Comey says that Trump’s tweet about tapes caused him to leak memos to Times –

Mr. Comey said he decided to make the conversation public through an intermediary after Mr. Trump said on Twitter that the former F.B.I. director had better hope there were no tapes of their discussions. He said he did so with the explicit hope of triggering the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russian election interference.
“I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night, ‘cause it didn’t dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation; there might be a tape,” Mr. Comey said, referring to May 15. “And my judgment was I needed to get that out in the public square so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. So I asked a close friend of mine to do it.”


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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/james-comey-testimony-hearing.html

Comey just Outed himself lying

To people wondering whether the May 11 NYT story was based on the actual memos: this is from that article – 3 days before the tweets:

By Mr. Comey’s account, his answer to Mr. Trump’s initial question apparently did not satisfy the president, the associates said. Later in the dinner, Mr. Trump again said to Mr. Comey that he needed his loyalty. Mr. Comey again replied that he would give him “honesty” and did not pledge his loyalty, according to the account of the conversation. But Mr. Trump pressed him on whether it would be “honest loyalty.” “You will have that,” Mr. Comey told his associates he responded.


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Comey has shown himself to be completely full of crap and he clearly committed perjury. And it cannot be accidental perjury where he simply misspoke as the lie was the entire basis for the reason that he provided for his leaks.

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LOCK HIM UP!!!

 

[Willie99]

well, when the FBI director essentially said he was too nervous to respond to the POTUS, he said "he wasn't strong enough", well that's just downright pathetic and he once again proves he's not the man for the job

now he's telling us he's fucking pussy too

 

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'This has nothing to do with Russia,' Conway definitively told Cooper, who questioned the timing of the firing

Oops...

 

[919]

So, you are an advocate of reporters publishing stories based on memos they've never read?

Apparently the journalist did see the memo

 

[919]

He said that under oath. so either he lied under oath or lied about a memo.
If he does have a memo and was told by Trump to stand down on any investigation then he broke the law there also...

Either way Comey broke the law and should be prosecuted and put in jail.

And now we wait for Comey to go to prison

 

[LENBO]

And now we wait for Comey to go to prison

After today's testimony he deserves a pardon as a thank you from Trump.

 

[919]

Ho hum, another Comney LIE:

Proof That Comey Lied Under Oath At His Senate Hearing!

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Richard Saunders

Comey lied and said Trump’s tweets caused him to leak to NYT through a Columbia law professor, but the Tweets came after the leaks

Comey memo leaked to the New York Times on May 11 at the latest.

Trump Tweets about tapes – May 12.

Comey says that Trump’s tweet about tapes caused him to leak memos to Times –

Mr. Comey said he decided to make the conversation public through an intermediary after Mr. Trump said on Twitter that the former F.B.I. director had better hope there were no tapes of their discussions. He said he did so with the explicit hope of triggering the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russian election interference.
“I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night, ‘cause it didn’t dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation; there might be a tape,” Mr. Comey said, referring to May 15. “And my judgment was I needed to get that out in the public square so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. So I asked a close friend of mine to do it.”


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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/james-comey-testimony-hearing.html

Comey just Outed himself lying

To people wondering whether the May 11 NYT story was based on the actual memos: this is from that article – 3 days before the tweets:

By Mr. Comey’s account, his answer to Mr. Trump’s initial question apparently did not satisfy the president, the associates said. Later in the dinner, Mr. Trump again said to Mr. Comey that he needed his loyalty. Mr. Comey again replied that he would give him “honesty” and did not pledge his loyalty, according to the account of the conversation. But Mr. Trump pressed him on whether it would be “honest loyalty.” “You will have that,” Mr. Comey told his associates he responded.


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Comey has shown himself to be completely full of crap and he clearly committed perjury. And it cannot be accidental perjury where he simply misspoke as the lie was the entire basis for the reason that he provided for his leaks.

:nono5:

LOCK HIM UP!!!

did someone say fake news? Did you really think he just made that up? Lol

Trump’s lawyer cites a questionable timeline in disputing Comey

Michael Isikoff
Yahoo NewsJune 8, 2017


WASHINGTON — In his effort to undercut former FBI director James Comey’s Senate testimony Thursday, President Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, appears to have misstated the sequence of two crucial events in the ongoing probe of the administration: Trump’s now infamous tweet implying he may have tapes of his conversations with Comey, and a New York Times article disclosing the existence of Comey’s memos about his meetings with the president.


In Comey’s account to the Senate intelligence committee, he “woke up in the middle of the night” on Monday, May 15, thinking about the president’s tweet the previous Friday, suggesting there might be tapes of the conversations between the two of them.

The possible existence of tapes, Comey testified, prompted him to ask a friend — a Columbia University law professor — to leak the contents of one his memos to a New York Times reporter. This, in turn, led to a bombshell story by reporter Michael Schmidt that for the first time revealed that Comey had written contemporaneous memos about his conversations with Trump and quoted an excerpt from one of them: the conversation in which the president, discussing the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, said, “I hope you can let this go.”



Kasowitz, in his first public appearance in the matter, accused Comey of leaking “privileged conversations” — but there is no indication the memos were classified. The lawyer then sought to dispute the timing of Comey’s account.


“Although Mr. Comey testified he only leaked the memos in response to a tweet, the public record reveals that the New York Times was quoting from these memos the day before the referenced tweet, which belies Mr. Comey’s excuse for this unauthorized disclosure of privileged information and appears to be entirely retaliatory. We will leave it to the appropriate authorities to determine whether this (sic) leaks should be investigated along with all those others being investigated.”

Excerpt from Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz’s statement to the press reguarding the Comey testimony.
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But Kasowitz — whose prepared statement was filled with typos and misspellings — appears to have gotten it wrong. The key Trump tweet about White House tapes was Friday, May 12, at 8:26 a.m. “James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”


The first Times story quoting from one of Comey’s memos was not the day before that tweet, as Kasowitz claimed, but four days later, on May 16.

Kasowitz was evidently referring to an early Times story by Schmidt that did appear the day before Trump’s tweet. On May 11, Schmidt, citing accounts from Comey “associates,” described a Jan. 27 dinner the then FBI director had with Trump in which the president asked him for his “loyalty.” But the earlier story does not quote from any memos by Comey — or make any reference to the existence of such memos. And there is nothing in the story to suggest it was based on read-outs from those memos. Contacted by Yahoo News, a spokesman for Kasowitz said only: “Our statement stands.” A source close to the matter added: “It is our firm belief that the Times report [on May 11] had the memos read to them.”




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It appears that Trump's lawyer is as dumb as he is

 

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[h=2]Trump declares war on Comey: President slams his testimony as 'false statements and lies' - and his personal lawyer plans legal complaint about sacked FBI director leaking[/h]

President Donald Trump declared war on his fired FBI director Friday, shredding James Comey's testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee as full of 'lies' and sicking his personal lawyers on him. Trump, who is usually active each morning on Twitter, had remained eerily quiet before Comey's testimony and in the hours after. He let it rip on Friday morning. Trump proclaimed on Twitter : 'Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication...and WOW, Comey is a leaker!' Fox News then reported that Trump's legal team was preparing complaints against Comey that it will file with the Department of Justice's Inspector General and the Senate Judiciary Committee. The president's outside counsel singled out a disclosure Thursday from Comey's testimony that he gave memos on his encounters with Trump to a friend for the purpose of leaking them. Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz said Comey's conduct should be investigated.

 

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