Posted on 05/04/2018 5:01:39 AM PDT by Magnatron
Former New York City Mayor and President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday that the president fired former FBI Director James Comey last May in part because Comey wouldn’t assure the president he wasn’t a target of the FBI's Russia investigation.
“He fired Comey because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn’t a target of the investigation,” Giuliani said on Fox News. “He’s entitled to that. Hillary Clinton got that and he couldn’t get that. So he fired him and he said, ‘I’m free of this guy.’”
Special counsel Robert Mueller told President Trump’s attorneys in March that the president remains under investigation but is not a criminal target, multiple sources familiar with the discussion confirmed to ABC News.
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Why are they still wasting time on petty crap. Why isn’t Hillary and Billy being investigated for a REAL crime. Stormy Daniels, give a break.
Evidently, it’s a real problem for native New Yorkers.
Why are they still wasting time on petty crap.The Deep State is flooding the zone in an attempt to distract from the fact that they're still wiretaping the President of the United States.
That's true with some exceptions.......You’re prohibited from firing someone if they refuse to do something illegal that you’ve asked them to do.
I'm not quite sure refusal to announce the President wasn't under investigation is a crime, but some have said it was an attempt at obstruction.
Apparently Trump and Rudy are coordinating this.
‘I fired him because he is an obnoxious, incompetent, limelight-seeking dork who did a poor job.’..........
Now that statement is probably closer to the truth than any others we have heard. I agree, Comey is a “dork” and the more and more he is exposed only goes to prove it. I would have fired him too.
Tons on conjecture flying around due to the Comey dismissal. Personally, I could care less WHY Trump fired him and welcome the fact he (Comey) is gone. When Comey failed to go after Hitlary, that was good enough for me, he needed firing. Good riddance!!!
Amen!
We used to use the term - "Serves at the pleasure of the President"
Now Comey No Longer Serves at the pleasure and honor of the President
10-4. Rudy is kicking the legs out from under Mueller and his “obstruction” and campaign finance violations stormy theories.
The goal is to force Mueller to wrap up, and he’s got nothing. Rudy is putting out alternate facts for prosecuters to ponder.
F the press and pearl clutchers. Including here. They can run around with their hair on fire all day. Whatever.
I guess we now know why he was put in that place by obama. Because he is a bizarre commissar that would do anything to pump himself up, do the bidding of his masters and above all, protect the syndicate.
Exactly! So much of the current problems are caused by a dismaying lack of message discipline and continuity. There is alleged to exist an anti-Trump cabal within the FBI. Yet Comey and McCabe, both alleged members of this cabal, are fired for conduct detrimental to Clinton during the campaign. Those things both can’t be true. There is an unequivocal denial of any Trump campaign contact with the Russian government. Then there is the belated admission of the Trump Tower meeting. There is an unequivocal denial of any knowledge of the Stormy Daniels NDA. Now there was knowledge of the payment but maybe not the reason for it which is totally believable because who doesn’t fire off 6 figures worth of checks in monthly instalments without bothering to ask what the money is for? The pattern is becoming increasingly dismaying; unequivocal denial followed by a slightly more equivocal denial, followed by an admission in the form of “yea, that happened but it wasn’t what it looks like and besides here are my lawyers explaining why this thing we lied about happening for months wasn’t necessarily a crime so why is everyone so upset?” The central defense against the swirling indictments of the Mueller investigations is “this is all a hoax, we did nothing wrong, just trust us.” But if we are being honest with ourselves, what credibility is left? This Stormy Daniels thing is so dismaying because it was so transparent a lie but the President insisted on that lie for months. Making it worse is that there was no reason to lie. We are familiar with our President’s past, we know no one would mistake him for our deacon. But none of that mattered to us, we voted for him anyway. He could have just admitted the obvious when the Daniels thing first came out and we would have shrugged our shoulders and moved along. But he lied and lied and is trying to lie about the lie. Just like with the Trump tower meeting when there first were no meetings with Russia, then this one meeting but it was only about adoption, and then finally the truth. The investigations around the President will fundamentally hinge on the question of credibility and right now who can honestly believe what the President says? We didn’t vote for a politician but it is becoming increasingly clear that we elected one.
Paragraphs would make that easier to read———I didn’t bother.
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I sincerely hope that Trump has investigators finding every single bit of info about Comey they can-—back to when he ws in the 8th grade is fine with me.
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