posted May 19, 2017 02:23 AM            

They didn't ask and he didn't answer whether Trump asked him to stop it. Nor anyone else except the AG or any one from DOJ. So the memo story is not rebutted but yours is hollow.

It may be that the source misspoke but we dont know that. Cancelling out the claim that the whole thing is faked by the Times.

And yes, if DT did it, its a big deal.

posted May 19, 2017 03:02 AM            

IF DT intended to persuade him or warn him off ... which so far is just a hypothesis by news writers;

It IS a big f'ing deal. Quite possibly this little exchange is Comey setting that up as criteria;

Even if technically the Prez (not the DOJ) has the right to do so (not established in that dialogue) he doesn't have the facts to do so on a legal basis and it makes him look like he's meddling without any basis for doing so. Because he likes Flynn is not proper cause.

Even the DOJ.. for legal reasons.. were to advise their lack of belief in the investigation "to stop it for political reasons would be a very big deal"

Just as possible Comey never wrote the memo
Or never implied he felt DT was trying to pressure him but someone else is dramatizing what they heard. Sloppy reporting.

He did try to intimidate Comey regarding "leaks".. And we can see that since he tweeted it! but Comey can't be fingered for this memo story and the Times can be blamed for sensationalism.

And your linked piece is even worse in that department.. it claims the video shows something it doesn't. So it is telling people to read into Comey's testimony what isn't there. (What to think)

We don't know that a perfectly honest source didn't speak to the Times and withheld identity to avoid retribution.. so some people will think its fact and others(likeDT) will call it fiction.

So question..

If you think the Times is lying because their source isnt named.. why don't you apply the same criteria to DT? He uses "people say""good sources" etc all the time. Anonymous amorphous sources, right?

posted May 19, 2017 12:03 PM            

But you don't know what's been going on behind the scenes so sorry to point out but youi are also quick to jump to conclusions that satisfy your bias. You also make statements as facts that are really suppositions, or like your article, misinterpretations..

Maybe he did report such. How would we know? To whom would he report ? Not the news. It wouldn't be general knowledge in a secret investigation would it? I believe the memos will be taken as exhibits, right?

I remember your inability to approve of anything President Obama did. Or even to call him President. Don't you? All those insulting ways of identifying him and dismissing those who saw differently as Morons. Hmm?

posted May 19, 2017 04:33 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Well, today a briefing shot down that Comey asked for any additional resources. One fake news story crashed and burned.

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All he said was

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I am not aware of any such request," he told the representatives.

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He may have went further in the closed meeting of which neither you or I have privvy to.

Guarded is a good word Node!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/role-model-deputy-attorney-general-164243783.html

posted May 19, 2017 05:08 PM            

You know it is something he would say if he thought it would be kept secret.

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President Trump met with Russian officials at the White House last week. American journalists were barred, but Russia released photographs. Credit Russian Foreign Ministry WASHINGTON —

President Trump told Russian officials in the Oval Office this month that firing the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, had relieved “great pressure” on him, according to a document summarizing the meeting.

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Mr. Trump added, “I’m not under investigation.”

The conversation, during a May 10 meeting — the day after he fired Mr. Comey — reinforces the notion that Mr. Trump dismissed him primarily because of the bureau’s investigation into possible collusion between his campaign and Russian operatives. Mr. Trump said as much in one televised interview, but the White House has offered changing justifications for the firing.

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Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, did not dispute the account.

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html?_r=0

posted May 19, 2017 08:53 PM            

Meanwhile Putin is laughing in his Stolchnaya and offering to tell us what our President said.

posted May 20, 2017 12:30 AM            

"Credit Russian Foreign Minister Washington" sounds like a source to me.

Is "very good sources tell me" (DT special go to) better somehow? How about "people say"? Is that fake news?

posted May 20, 2017 07:31 AM            

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Teasel. I looked at your link and true or not, it gave me a good laugh.

You know it is something he would say if he thought it would be kept secret.

[b]Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, did not dispute the account.

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html?_r=0

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I know, it was a "pot meet kettle" moment, when he called Comey a nut job.

posted May 20, 2017 08:04 AM            

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Originally posted by Catalina:

But at last he didn't bow too low to a Saudi prince. Yet..

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I don't know if that counts. Someone posted that he bowed, but the guy putting the collar over his head, was shorter than him.

posted May 20, 2017 08:22 AM            

Spicer didn`t deny it. I saw/heard him defending this statement " I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Indeed Cat, the Russians will also be playing the fiddle and telling all during the dance.

posted May 20, 2017 10:19 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
The only fiddles heard will be the Dems after President Trump is vindicated, and their cries in their safe spaces when their party is further decimated in 2018.

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