Posted on 05/17/2019 10:49:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
The text of emails buried in a footnote in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report reveals that President Trump asked disgraced ex-FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence and Trump critic James Clapper to publicly refute the infamous Steele dossier after the discredited charges were first leaked to the news media.
Clapper refused Trump’s request, the emails reveal.
Trump’s requests to Comey and Clapper were in response to media leaks about the dossier. The first leak was a CNN January 10, 2017 report exposing classified briefings to Trump and Barack Obama about the dossier. Those briefings were presented by Comey, Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers.
Following the CNN report, the full dossier document was published hours later by BuzzFeed.
“He [Trump] asked if I could put out a statement. He would prefer of course that I say the documents are bogus, which, of course, I can’t do,” Clapper wrote to Comey in a January 11, 2017 email.
“He called me at 5 yesterday and we had a very similar conversation,” Comey wrote back to Clapper one day later.
It was not clear why Clapper would not at least put out a public statement calling into question the Steele charges related to alleged collusion or discredited claims about a “pee” tape involving Trump, none of which had been verified by the FBI. Indeed, the FBI at that time possessed information calling Steele’s claims and the origins of the dossier into question.
Comey himself previously admitted in testimony that he pushed back against a request from Trump, made during an Oval Office meeting, to possibly investigate the origins of the unsubstantiated claims made in the infamous anti-Trump dossier.
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James Clapper will found to be a co-conspirator in the attempt to overthrow the United States government in the wake of the election of Donald Trump. Many others in the Intelligence Community and the FBI joined in this coup. All of them must be exposed.
Pee Tape Leaked.
This little gem from Comey's Senate testimony never gets mentioned. Trump has been accused of "obstructing justice" in this matter even though he himself wanted the FBI to conduct a formal investigation.
Hillary. They never thought she would lose....................
Maybe not. Victoria Toensing, the lawyer who is married to Joseph DiGenova and has been involved in prying into this matter, said the other day that Clapper was too dumb to organize something like this. Seriously. LOL.
They can get you 10 ways to Sunday, right Chuck Schumer?
I hope they’re all going down with the ship.
But when Lynch says change “investigation” to “a matter” he jumps right on it.
Yes, and too dumb not to participate.
If a story isn’t true, you should set the record straight.
These two should go down.
Didn’t Comey “obstruct justice” when he didn’t tell Trump the real reasons for not wanting to investigate?
Gee how come our intelligence agencies couldn’t get to the bottom of this but Mueller could?
Perps generally don’t get the to bottom of their own crimes.
They divert, like blaming Trump for election tampering when that’s exactly what they did.
What ever happened to the story about Trump being in Russia for the Miss Universe pageant and not actually staying in that hotel because he was running late. It never made any sense to me why you would want to have your bed peed on anyway.
I would agree that Clapper was more likely the useful idiot in the operation. Brennan and Comey were the guys in charge, reporting directly to Obama and Clinton.
Brennan is not mentioned? I’m sure all 3 were called by Trump. Why is everyone keeping notes?? Cuz that’s how you set up someone for obstruction.
The walls are closing in on Pop Eye’s dad.
It never made any sense to me why you would want to have your bed peed on anyway.
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Especially a germaphobe like Trump.
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