Posted on 06/22/2017 3:52:11 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
The saga began in May, just days after Trump fired Comey, who was then leading an investigation into contacts before and after the election between the president's campaign and Russian officials. Trump disputed Comet's version of a January dinner during which Comey said Trump had asked for a pledge of loyalty.
The president responded with an unmistakable threat, tweeting that Comey "better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"
But what appears to have started as an angry, or perhaps mischievous missive triggered a series of consequences each weightier than the last. Ultimately the cryptic comment resulted in the appointment of a special counsel who is now reportedly investigating Trump's own actions in a probe that could dog his presidency for the foreseeable future.
At a Senate committee hearing this month, Comey suggested that the president's reference to possible recordings inspired him to disclose to the media through an intermediary a memo he had written of an Oval Office conversation from February. In that meeting, according to the memo, Trump asked Comey to consider dropping an investigation into the former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
One week after the memo was disclosed, the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to take over the investigation into contacts between Russia and the Trump political campaign.
The absence of recordings almost certainly elevates in significance to investigators the notes made by Comey at the time...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Yes, I took Trump’s remark as snark, making Comey hope the FBI was no longer surveilling the place and had not failed to remove equipment.
Some of Trump’s phone calls to Austrailia and elsewhere had been recorded, transcripted and leaker to the media.
Some of Comey’s exchanges were by phone as well. Trump jingles his chain and Comey woke up sweating in the night, sent his “memo” to his pal professor to run leak to the media.
If not Comey, then Jeh Johnson or Hillary or Harry Reid or... or... somebody from the Deep State, right?
Remember Trump's remarks about pure gold in the walls, and replacing the chandeliers.
That *could* be taken as a hint that "hey, whoever you are, I caught your recording equipment...and now have the raw data going back xyz months, too."
All of them.
They don’t realize that they can’t get rid of him. And the drum beat begins in 2018. They will pay, just not now.
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