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In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred.

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Small hands trying to put his big thumb on the scales of justice. Very sad!

As they ate, the president and Mr. Comey made small talk about the election and the crowd sizes at Mr. Trump’s rallies. The president then turned the conversation to whether Mr. Comey would pledge his loyalty to him.

Mr. Comey declined to make that pledge. Instead, Mr. Comey has recounted to others, he told Mr. Trump that he would always be honest with him, but that he was not “reliable” in the conventional political sense.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.html?_r=0
 
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like he was honest with the clinton's ?

In 1996, Comey acted as deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee.

http://time.com/4276988/jim-comey-hillary-clinton/

Comey’s first brush with them came when Bill Clinton was president. Looking to get back into government after a stint in private practice, Comey signed on as deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee. In 1996, after months of work, Comey came to some damning conclusions: Hillary Clinton was personally involved in mishandling documents and had ordered others to block investigators as they pursued their case. Worse, her behavior fit into a pattern of concealment: she and her husband had tried to hide their roles in two other matters under investigation by law enforcement. Taken together, the interference by White House officials, which included destruction of documents, amounted to “far more than just aggressive lawyering or political naiveté,” Comey and his fellow investigators concluded. It constituted “a highly improper pattern of deliberate misconduct.”

Comey parlayed the Whitewater job into top posts in Virginia and New York, returning to Manhattan in 2002 to be the top federal prosecutor there. One of his first cases as a line attorney in the same office 15 years earlier had been the successful prosecution of Marc Rich, a wealthy international financier, for tax evasion. But on his last day as President in 2001, Bill Clinton pardoned Rich. “I was stunned,” Comey later told Congress. As top U.S. prosecutor in New York in 2002, appointed by George W. Bush, Comey inherited the criminal probe into the Rich pardon and 175 others Clinton had made at the 11th hour.

Despite evidence that several pardon recipients, including Rich, had connections to donations to Bill Clinton’s presidential library and Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign, Comey found no criminal wrongdoing. He was careful not to let the investigation be used for political purposes by either party. When pressed for details in one case, he said, “I can’t really go into it because it was an investigation that didn’t result in charges. That may be a frustrating answer, but that’s the one I’m compelled to give.”

lol...

and 20 years later it happens again...

and you wonder why Trump couldn't stand comey...
 
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White House denies this unsourced report.

A White House spokeswoman on Thursday disputed the description of the dinner by Mr. Comey’s associates.

“We don’t believe this to be an accurate account,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy press secretary. “The integrity of our law enforcement agencies and their leadership is of the utmost importance to President Trump. He would never even suggest the expectation of personal loyalty, only loyalty to our country and its great people.”

At the dinner described by Mr. Trump in his interview with NBC, the conversation with Mr. Comey was quite different. Mr. Trump told NBC that Mr. Comey requested it to ask to keep his job. Mr. Trump said he asked the F.B.I. director if he was under investigation, a question that legal experts called highly unusual if not improper. In Mr. Trump’s telling, Mr. Comey reassured him that he was not.


Yesterday it was reported that the FBI requested more money for investigation. Wrong. It was reported that all FBI agents involved in the Clinton e-mail investigation were unanimous in their agreement that Clinton was innocent, Wrong. It was reported that Rosenstein threatened to resign. Wrong. It has been reported continually that Trump is under investigation, but two Senators, Grassley and Feinstein rebutted that report making it wrong.

I will wait to see how this story plays out but the main stream media has not been very accurate with almost any story regarding Comey's firing.
 
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WVPATX said:
White House denies this unsourced report.

A White House spokeswoman on Thursday disputed the description of the dinner by Mr. Comey’s associates.

“We don’t believe this to be an accurate account,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy press secretary. “The integrity of our law enforcement agencies and their leadership is of the utmost importance to President Trump. He would never even suggest the expectation of personal loyalty, only loyalty to our country and its great people.”

At the dinner described by Mr. Trump in his interview with NBC, the conversation with Mr. Comey was quite different. Mr. Trump told NBC that Mr. Comey requested it to ask to keep his job. Mr. Trump said he asked the F.B.I. director if he was under investigation, a question that legal experts called highly unusual if not improper. In Mr. Trump’s telling, Mr. Comey reassured him that he was not.


Yesterday it was reported that the FBI requested more money for investigation. Wrong. It was reported that all FBI agents involved in the Clinton e-mail investigation were unanimous in their agreement that Clinton was innocent, Wrong. It was reported that Rosenstein threatened to resign. Wrong. It has been reported continually that Trump is under investigation, but two Senators, Grassley and Feinstein rebutted that report making it wrong.

I will wait to see how this story plays out but the main stream media has not been very accurate with almost any story regarding Comey's firing.
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Well of course the White House would deny it, duh. Sen. Manchin counters the funding story and the Trump campaign (that includes Trump) is under investigation by all three groups to some degree. All the White House has done is deny stories and try to cover their *** daily. I can absolutely believe that Trump would try to win him over.
 
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moe said:
Well of course the White House would deny it, duh. Sen. Manchin counters the funding story and the Trump campaign (that includes Trump) is under investigation by all three groups to some degree. All the White House has done is deny stories and try to cover their *** daily. I can absolutely believe that Trump would try to win him over.
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You said it yourself moetard...you believe what you want to believe.
 
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moe said:
Well of course the White House would deny it, duh. Sen. Manchin counters the funding story and the Trump campaign (that includes Trump) is under investigation by all three groups to some degree. All the White House has done is deny stories and try to cover their *** daily. I can absolutely believe that Trump would try to win him over.
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The current head of the FBI refuted Manchin's story. Who knows more about this, Manchin, a Dem, or the head of the FBI?

The NY Times has gotten so many stories wrong, they have zero credibility. Trump said this morning that Comey better hope there were no recordings of their conversations. Let's hope there were and we get some clarity.
 
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WVPATX said:
The current head of the FBI refuted Manchin's story. Who knows more about this, Manchin, a Dem, or the head of the FBI?
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I'd say the question is who is most likely to lie and I'm going with Manchin (and Comey) as the truth teller(s), Trump can't fire Manchin.
 
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moe said:
I'd say the question is who is most likely to lie and I'm going with Manchin (and Comey) as the truth teller(s), Trump can't fire Manchin.
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Manchin over the current head of the FBI? Why would he lie, he is a Dem. Manchin has zero inside knowledge as opposed to McCabe?
 
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countryroads89 said:
You do realize at some point in the not too distant future Comey will be questioned under oath? [laughing]
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You realize that if he has to tell the truth or go to prison that you orgasmic dream of trump russia connections goes up in flames and you are stuck making up something else to ***** about? (notable absence of fahggy emoticon)
 
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countryroads89 said:
You do realize at some point in the not too distant future Comey will be questioned under oath? [laughing]
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Apparently it will take a subpoena.

Former FBI Director James Comey has declined an invitation to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week, a spokesman for the committee confirmed to Fox News Friday.

Comey had been invited to testify before a closed session in the wake of his controversial firing by President Trump earlier this week, but declined to do so.

Trump fired Comey Tuesday after receiving a recommendation to do so by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, citing his handling of the Clinton email probe last year. However, Trump later clarified that he would have fired Comey even without Rosenstein’s recommendation.

Democrats and some Republicans have expressed concern at the timing of the probe, noting the FBI’s current investigation into alleged interference by the Russian government in the U.S. presidential election.
 
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PriddyBoy said:
Apparently it will take a subpoena.

Former FBI Director James Comey has declined an invitation to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week, a spokesman for the committee confirmed to Fox News Friday.

Comey had been invited to testify before a closed session in the wake of his controversial firing by President Trump earlier this week, but declined to do so.

Trump fired Comey Tuesday after receiving a recommendation to do so by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, citing his handling of the Clinton email probe last year. However, Trump later clarified that he would have fired Comey even without Rosenstein’s recommendation.

Democrats and some Republicans have expressed concern at the timing of the probe, noting the FBI’s current investigation into alleged interference by the Russian government in the U.S. presidential election.
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If there were actual facts to be discussed instead of innuendo woudld he decline?
 
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countryroads89 said:
He had a schedule conflict for Tuesday. He won't have to be subpoenaed to testify.

[laughing]
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Must be something recently added because Tuesday is a workday and he is jobless. (Notable absence of fahggy emoticon)
 
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