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Donald Trump's White House Rejects Reports That James Comey Believes Wiretapping Claims Are False
Newsweek ^ | Josh Lowe

Posted on 03/07/2017 9:55:44 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Donald Trump’s White House has rejected reports that F.B.I Director James Comey disagrees with Trump’s wiretapping claims against Barack Obama.

The New York Times reported at the weekend that Comey had instructed the Department of Justice (DoJ) to publicly disavow the president’s unevidenced accusation that his predecessor had ordered intelligence services to spy on him during the presidential campaign. The DoJ has not yet made any public comment on the wiretapping claims.

The White House press secretary Sean Spicer told the paper he did not accept the report that Comey had intervened to prompt a response.

“I have not seen anything, aside from another report based on anonymous sources, that that actually happened,” Spicer said. “I’m not aware that that occurred. I don’t think that we’re aware that that occurred.”

The comments highlight the lack of contact on this issue between Trump and his law enforcement or intelligence agencies.

What evidence he does have for the claims appears to come from a right-wing talk show report that was picked up by the pro-Trump news site Breitbart, rather than any privileged information.

Spicer said that Trump still had confidence in the FBI director. “There’s nothing that I have been told by him that would leave me to believe that anything is different than it was prior,” he said.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; comey; fbi; obamagate; trump; wiretapping; wiretaps
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1 posted on 03/07/2017 9:55:44 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

FIRE HIM!!!!! Insubordination is enough charge.


2 posted on 03/07/2017 9:57:14 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: RoosterRedux

Comey is corrupt ! Fire Him!!


3 posted on 03/07/2017 9:58:44 AM PST by Renegade
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To: hoosiermama; onyx; Jane Long; V K Lee; RitaOK; Black Agnes; PennsylvaniaMom; Fai Mao; Fiddlstix; ...
Neither Comey nor the FBI have confirmed that Comey asked the DOJ to disavow the Trump claims of wiretapping.

Trump and Comey and the DOJ are playing the media and the Democrats.

Ping

4 posted on 03/07/2017 9:58:52 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

More fake girly gossip news from NYT (OMG did you hear what Comey said?!)


5 posted on 03/07/2017 9:59:13 AM PST by Stopthethreat
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To: RoosterRedux

This is getting to be too much. Trump is a business executive. If you have a chief or an executive going against the good of the company, you can their asses. This is insubordination.

If something like this happened at Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Exxon, etc., the chief running their mouth would be publicly lampooned.


6 posted on 03/07/2017 9:59:25 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Gaffer
“I have not seen anything, aside from another report based on anonymous sources, that that actually happened,” Spicer said.

There is NO evidence yet that Comey even said this. Not a single shred.

7 posted on 03/07/2017 9:59:55 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: rarestia

kimdotcom says they were watching and listening Trump via his phone.

Didn’t need a wiretap


8 posted on 03/07/2017 10:00:23 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

I don’t know if they LEGALLY needed a wiretap..just saying that is one way they were doing it


9 posted on 03/07/2017 10:00:54 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: RoosterRedux

The New York Times reported on Jan 20 that Trump was wiretapped. They’re right wing?


10 posted on 03/07/2017 10:01:23 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: KC_Conspirator

I still don’t care. What Comey has done already is enough for me to fire him. He is NOT on our side, IMO and I want him gone. He should have been told to resign on January 20.


11 posted on 03/07/2017 10:01:52 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
Trump, Sessions, and Comey are in constant contact.

Sessions even had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night.

12 posted on 03/07/2017 10:02:46 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Make Comey quit, don’t fire him (yet).


13 posted on 03/07/2017 10:03:05 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: Gaffer
FIRE HIM!!!!! Insubordination is enough charge.

Yeah!! That will certainly teach the NYT not to make up stories using unnamed sources supposedly telling us what Comey said! /s

14 posted on 03/07/2017 10:03:35 AM PST by Wissa (Cats don't make long-term plans.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Heheh. And they have most certainly now regret it.


15 posted on 03/07/2017 10:04:32 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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The news reports are all over the place on the Russian subject. They claim Trump was working with them, and their source is the wire tap. Then they say there was no proof of a wire tap. But they base all their sources from the wire tap. Comey???? First he meets with Trump, then says, according to the Fake News, that there wasn’t a wire tap, or leads people to believe there wasn’t one. Why does this guy still have a job?? He either knows something and is part of the Trump team, or has dirt on everyone including Trump. Nobody can figure this guy out, but it looks like he is going to run out of contradictions and friends.


16 posted on 03/07/2017 10:05:36 AM PST by davidb56
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17 posted on 03/07/2017 10:06:12 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Stopthethreat
The substance of this article is that the WH is saying that Comey has done nothing.

Sean Spicer would know the truth.

18 posted on 03/07/2017 10:06:53 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Wissa

Thank you for sanity.


19 posted on 03/07/2017 10:08:56 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: RoosterRedux

Has anyone even asked the FBI to make a statement?


20 posted on 03/07/2017 10:09:03 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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