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Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation (NYT)
nytimes.com ^ | MATT APUZZO, MAGGIE HABERMAN and MATTHEW ROSENBERG

Posted on 05/19/2017 12:29:13 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting.

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Mr. Trump added, “I’m not under investigation.”

The conversation, during a May 10 meeting — the day after he fired Mr. Comey — reinforces the notion that Mr. Trump dismissed him primarily because of the bureau’s investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives. Mr. Trump said as much in one televised interview, but the White House has offered changing justifications for the firing.

The White House document that contained Mr. Trump’s comments was based on notes taken from inside the Oval Office and has been circulated as the official account of the meeting. One official read quotations to The Times, and a second official confirmed the broad outlines of the discussion.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 20170510; comey; fakenews; nutjob; russia; trump; trumprussia
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To: RoosterRedux

NY Times = Fake News = DNC Bull $hit Talking Points


61 posted on 05/19/2017 12:59:50 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: xenia
It seems he did:

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer did not dispute the Times account of Trump's conversation with the Russian officials. He said in a statement that Comey put pressure on Trump's ability to work on diplomatic matters with Russia.

"By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia's actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia," Spicer said. "The investigation would have always continued, and obviously, the termination of Comey would not have ended it. Once again, the real story is that our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified conversations."

http://time.com/4786698/president-trump-james-russia-comey-nut-job/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter

62 posted on 05/19/2017 1:00:08 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Hillary's Russia Ties - http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/09/hillary-clinton-and-democrats-have.htm)
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To: Army Air Corps

This is fiction writing.... what was that fiction writer who used to work for Obama... Donilon? He’s got lots of time on his hands to come up with this nonsense.


63 posted on 05/19/2017 1:02:26 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Mr. K

Deputy NSA Dina Powell name as the leaker is bouncing around.


64 posted on 05/19/2017 1:02:52 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: RummyChick

You a daytrader or swingtrader?


65 posted on 05/19/2017 1:02:52 PM PDT by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: RoosterRedux

“collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives”

No matter how many times I hear this, I still never hear a description of what that would look like. Collusion to do WHAT? You freakin morons!


66 posted on 05/19/2017 1:03:00 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: RoosterRedux
What American official? No name, no credibility.
67 posted on 05/19/2017 1:03:00 PM PDT by jch10 (Don't go along to get along!)
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To: All

For the last year, it’s been “Trump and Russia...Russia and Trump...”

Reports from many, many, many “insider” sources...

Documents from Washington officials...

Anonymous official government sources...

All claiming undeniable evidence that Trump and Russia colluded to get Trump elected....

______

Where is the proof and evidence????

“Uhhhhhhhh....Well, we don’t actually have any, but we’re working on it...”


68 posted on 05/19/2017 1:03:29 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: RoosterRedux

What pressure was he allegedly referring to being that the FBI was not investigating him?


69 posted on 05/19/2017 1:03:47 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: RoosterRedux
“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,”

Well, both parts of that statement were true, so what's the issue?

70 posted on 05/19/2017 1:04:14 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: plain talk
You mispelled retard five times. Priceless. :-).

Misspelling the word "misspelled" while criticizing someone else for misspelling. Truly priceless.
71 posted on 05/19/2017 1:05:00 PM PDT by drjimmy
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To: Red Steel

I’m not doubting that to be true, but I think they made up these stories months ago. It’s definitely possible they’re working with people like Powell and others, but they’re clearly printing BS.


72 posted on 05/19/2017 1:06:18 PM PDT by Voluntaryist
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To: ColdOne

If Comey the strange blued his face like the Blue Man Crew he could have gotten away with his curtain hide.


73 posted on 05/19/2017 1:07:38 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: RoosterRedux

I think there is a strong possibility these meeting notes are a setup to track the leaks.


74 posted on 05/19/2017 1:07:42 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: RoosterRedux

Chances are the Times got this information at the same time they received the “Trump shares top-secrets with Russians” memo.

They’ve just been sitting on it until AF1 was wheels up. A little going away present, as it were.


75 posted on 05/19/2017 1:07:43 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: RoosterRedux

One of the “imaginative leaks” claimed Comey spoke of hiding in the curtains to avoid Trump on inauguration day... if that’s true then he is nuts.

It’s also his M.O.

He did the same thing back in March 2004 in the ailing John Ashcroft’s hospital room. He stood back in the darkened room among the curtains and Gonzalez mistook him and his bud’s for Ashcroft’s security team and family. And as I recall, Mueller was in on that scam Comey pulled off.


76 posted on 05/19/2017 1:08:13 PM PDT by piasa
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To: 82nd Bragger

All of it ;-)


77 posted on 05/19/2017 1:08:41 PM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I have been away from the “News”.
I now hear that Trump, gave secret info to the Russians.
Is this like Truman telling Stalin we had”The Bomb”?
But like now, as then, the Reds already knew!
Even then we had Americans(?) working against the US.


78 posted on 05/19/2017 1:11:01 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (" Winning not Whining"!)
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To: RoosterRedux

There was no American press in the white house when this alleged “nutjob” comment was made. Who were the other people in the room?


79 posted on 05/19/2017 1:11:31 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (proawaki)
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To: outpostinmass2

“It looks like the Trump administration has identified the leaker.”

How so? IMHO, they will nail some people before summer but you don’t explain what you wrote at all here.


80 posted on 05/19/2017 1:12:21 PM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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