COLLINS: OK, you mentioned that, from your very first meeting with the president, you decided to write a memo memorializing the conversation. What was it about that very first meeting that made you write a memo, when you had not done that with two previous presidents?The first meeting, the January 6 Briefing, was engineered to be one-on-one by Comey. Check out his prepared statement on that. The reason to keep the group small was that the subject was the piss-dossier, and the big shots didn't want to subject Trump to embarassment by having more people around when the discussion/disclosure took place. Here is Comey in his own words ...COMEY: As I said, a combination of things. A gut feeling is an important overlay on it (ph). But the circumstances -- that I was alone, the subject matter, and the nature of the person that I was interacting with and my read of that person.
(UNKNOWN): The nature of that person (ph)?
COMEY: Yeah, and -- and -- and, really, just a gut feel, laying on top of all of that, that this -- it's going to be important, to protect this organization, that I make records of this.
The IC leadership thought it important, for a variety of reasons, to alert the incoming President to the existence of this material, even though it was salacious and unverified. Among those reasons were: (1) we knew the media was about to publicly report the material and we believed the IC should not keep knowledge of the material and its imminent release from the President-Elect; and (2) to the extent there was some effort to compromise an incoming President, we could blunt any such effort with a defensive briefing.And today, Comey conveniently side stepped the question "The nature of that person?" What the heck? He makes a statement about his impression of "the nature of Trump" and nobody presses him to expand on WTF that means, in his mind.The Director of National Intelligence asked that I personally do this portion of the briefing because I was staying in my position and because the material implicated the FBI's counter-intelligence responsibilities. We also agreed I would do it alone to minimize potential embarrassment to the President-Elect.
Thank you for posting this.
President Trump obviously had them pegged from all of this. Comey asked to meet alone with him over something that was obviously fake. So the president kept up the ruse and met alone with him again later. Lol. Oh the tangled web . . .
This is all very very bad.
Bump....Thank You!
That is a very interesting excerpt. I’ve seen people asking how Comey knew the media was about to report on the memo. Didn’t McCain give it to the FBI directly? When and how did the Trump-hating media get a copy???
Unfortunately, Comey did elsewhere clarify what he meant about Trump’s nature. He called Trump a liar. If we had a senator worth squat they’d have demanded examples. The Democrats never let their honchos get smeared without a fight. But our Senators are Uniparty minions. They probably applaud inwardly whenever Trump gets dissed.
Well you know elsewhere today Comey