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His voice cracked a little when he called Trump a liar. Big time “tell.” He’d get wiped out in my poker game. Surprised no one commented.

There is definitely something that needs to be commented on here…. I don’t know how many times last night I heard some talking head or another talking about how Comey talked about Trump lies or Trump being a liar. Is this really the case? To put some facts around this, I just did a word search of the entire hearing… here is what I used https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearing-transcript.html?module=Chatblog&region=Body&action=click&pgtype=interactive .

And here is what I found….The word ‘lie’ comes up quite a few times but mostly because the word is part of the word ‘believe’ and ‘relieve’. As a standalone word, as far as I can tell the word ‘lie’ only came up twice and the word ‘liar’, once… so let’s go look at those references.

1. Comey: ”And although the law required no reason at all to fire an FBI director, the administration then chose to defame me and, more importantly, the FBI by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader. Those were lies, plain and simple, and I am so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them and I’m so sorry that the American people were told them.

2. Comey: And then the nature of the person: I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting, and so I thought it really important to document.

3. Comey: Probably — my mother raised me not to say things like this about myself, so not I’m going to. I think people should look at the whole body of my testimony, because, as I used to say to juries, and when I talked about a witness, you can’t cherry-pick it. You can’t say, “I like these things he said, but on this, he’s a — he’s a dirty, rotten liar.”

I even heard Krauthammer say on Tucker Carlson last night that “Comey called Trump a liar”. Wait a minute…. The first reference is about something that is completely subjective and would require a survey of the FBI at the time it was said to establish its veracity one way or another. This now can never be proved one way or another because it was dependent on time. The second reference has no reference at all to ‘Trump telling a lie’ because the reference is just Comey’s opinion about something that Trump ‘might do’. The third reference which this time is to the word ‘liar’ has nothing to do with Trump at all.

So tell me…. where did Comey call Trump a liar? Is my word search not working?