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 ...
Yeah NYTs are the fictional Pravda scribblers on the Hudson feeding the Commie TASS news agency (AP) their BS stories.
I think the WH is setting up the NY Times with a "somewhat fake" story to locate the leaker and to embarrass the Times.
oh, let’s see if we can debunk this. I know how - let’s look at timing - two days before? that was way before Russia visited:
“Comey called Trump ‘crazy’ after Obama wiretapping claims”
“The president told aides there was “something wrong with” Comey Sunday, two days before his ultimate ouster.”
By Mark Hensch - 05/10/17 10:18 PM EDT
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/fbi/332882-comey-called-trump-crazy-report
That's true but also anything determinental would have been tossed by the media to protect their messiah.
Someone should call them up and read the press excerpts from Tom Clancy novels.
Absolute Fake News®
Spicer is not denying the story.
Memos? I got memos....
/Dan Rather
Maybe ‘retart’ is the feminine variant of ‘retard,’ of or having to do with presstitution.
Unnamed “American official” strikes again!
I’ve got to believe that the WH is trolling the crap out of the NYT and other MSM too.
This is too outrageous to be true, and the NYT bit because their hatred blinds them.
That’s my theory.
Has Maxine Waters confirmed this yet?!
2. How does a FBI investigation become "eased" by removal of the Director, knowing each investigation has to be adjudicated after it is opened, and subject to subpoena?
This BS doesn't pass the logic test.
.. Comey-in-the-curtains should have been fired in 2004 for taking upon himself authority he did not have.
And here’s the real problem for Trump- they guy who was with Comey when he pulled his coup against Ashcroft was none other than Mueller.
Yes, THAT Mueller.
Doing a full gainer.
This story sounds tailor-made for leaking...and to trap a leaker and embarrass the Times.
They have a four thousand page memo, all on sticky notes!
This sounds too goofy to have any basis in fact, IMO.
Then again, Comey was a nutjob and was creating problems.
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