Posted on 07/20/2017 12:17:57 PM PDT by davikkm
President Trump held an interview this week with The New York Times.
The embattled president accused former FBI Director Comey of threatening to hold the discredited Russian dossier over his head.
The dossier of bizarre allegations was created by a far left group to damage President Trump during the election.
LawNewz reported:
He claims that FBI Director James Comey tried to hold the salacious dossier over his head, in order to gain “leverage” over him. It had previously been reported that when administration officials briefed the president at Trump Tower in January, Comey pulled him aside and told him about the details of the now infamous dossier which included unverified reports of Trump’s sexual encounters while in Russia.
Why did Comey bring this up? Trump has a new theory.
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Comey needs to be prosecuted.
“Comey needs to be prosecuted.”
Sessions will be right on this!
We need a special council on comey. they can extend their invetigations to his friends too (oh, that would be Mueller)
That is blackmail using known fraud
to protect payments made to coverup treason.
If the AG was not asleep at the wheel, ...
First we need to ban the word “Bombshell” for at least 5 years as I’ve said before. Second it’s a pity we don’t have an AG.
Comey and HilLIARy and Obama and especially the moneybags SOrozNazi and Pelousy and a few more need to be prosecuted and, upon conviction, sent to Guantanamo
Did Comey pay for the dossier?
This is a fascinating allegation that would never stand up in a criminal case but may very well be true and has enormous political implications.
Comey is in collusion with Mueller and Rod RosenKrantz. They all need to be brought up on charges.
When Comey started to release material pertaining to HER, last year; Friday afternoon before a major holiday I flipped my attitude on him.
He didn’t make up for it, when he re-opened the investigation when Huma’s laptop was obtained. His hand was forced, he knew that to cover for HER would be detrimental to his career.
That was only the beginning.
Surely he could find an AG more like Eric Holder. I want a man with a backbone - AND morals.
Ba-ba-ba-ba-BOMBSHELL! That’s all, folks!
Dossier? Pfft...
Comey would be on REAL trouble if it had been binders of women.
I think Trump may be wrong on this one. If I had been heading the FBI and I had a dossier in my hands which may have included material which could be used to embarrass or even blackmail the President of the United States, then I would consider it my duty to inform the President of its existence. It is never a good idea to allow your boss to be blind-sided.
If Comey had NOT divulged its existence to President Trump, then Trump could be just as easily tweeting that Comey HID this potentially damaging material from him.
So the fact that Comey divulged it, does not, in my opinion, indict him. We have to assume that President Trump has made this charge based on additional actions by Comey which have demonstrated a caginess on Comey’s part.
You mean the same FBI Director who leaked personal memos (that nobody has seen by the way) containing classified/sensitive information so as to provoke the appointment of a special counsel, which they did. You mean that FBI Director.
Perhaps you are correct regarding Comey’s motives regarding the Dossier but only if that was viewed in a vacuum. When you put together the entire picture, it does not bode well for Comey.
President Trump is laying the groundwork to fire Mueller.
So Comey has been trying to blackmail the President of the U.S. He needs to be in jail for a very long time.
This destroys any credibility that the investigations into Trump ever had.
We knew of the dossier and it’s history, and it was widely discredited, before he was elected. If we did, you know Trump did and for Comey to bring it up after Trump was inaugurated, then you draw the implications. Now do you think he is still wrong? I think not.
Comey hiding the dossier wouldn’t be blackmail.
I agree with Trump. Comey was part often stop Trump team and failed. He failed because Trump knew the dossier was full of crap.
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