***Official Leaked Excerpts from Comey's book thread****

[grantcart]

Enough people have the book now that we are going to get the excerpts in real time.

It will be useful to have a single thread that lists each of the confirmed excerpts.


First: Trump asked Comey to investigate the pee tape so that he could convince Melania that it wasn't true.

add them as they come so we have a single list

edited to add actual excerpt

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/politics/comey-book-golden-showers/index.html

The Post said it obtained a copy of the book, and that in the book, Comey wrote that Trump wanted him to prove the allegation was false in part to prove its falsehood to his wife, first lady Melania Trump."He brought up what he called the 'golden showers thing,'" the Post quotes Comey as writing.The dossier was commissioned as opposition research by political opponents of then-candidate Trump and compiled by a former British intelligence agent.

Portions of the dossier remain unconfirmed. The book reportedly continues, "It bothered him if there was 'even a one percent chance' his wife, Melania, thought it was true. ... He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn't possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie. I said it was up to him."

[grantcart]

1. Kelly told Comey that he was going to resign after Comey was fired but Comey convinced him to stay

[DonViejo]

2. Comey: Trump Asked Me to Investigate 'Pee Tape' Allegations

President Donald Trump asked James Comey to consider investigating the “pee tape” allegations in order to “reassure Melania” that they were untrue, the fired FBI director wrote in his new book, according to the New York Post. “He brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing’…adding that it bothered him if there was ‘even a one percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true,” Comey wrote in A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, which is set to be released Tuesday. “He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn’t possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie. I said it was up to him.” The so-called "pee tape" was mentioned in the infamous Steele dossier, which claimed Trump had watched Russian prostitutes urinate in a Moscow hotel room in 2013. Comey said the conversation took place at the same dinner where Trump allegedly asked him for “loyalty” in January 2017. Comey wrote that he told the president that an investigation may “create a narrative that we were investigating him personally.” Trump replied that he “might be right,” but asked him to consider it anyway, according to the book. “In what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does a spouse conclude there is only a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do that?” Comey wrote. The Associated Press also reports that Comey claims in the book that Trump is “untethered to truth.” Comey’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos is due to air Sunday before the book's release.

READ IT AT NEW YORK POST

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/comey-trump-asked-me-to-investigate-pee-tape-allegations?ref=home

[riversedge]

8. thanks for infor.

[kstewart33]

3. Good idea. We need a Comey excerpt thread. nt

[tinrobot]

4. If there were no golden showers...

...you wouldn't have to ask if there were tapes.

[sunonmars]

9. This, you would ignore and deny, Trump just about confirms he is worried there are tapes.

[grantcart]

5. Comey: Trumps hands are smaller than he expected

His face is orange and he had to concentrate on looking at his eyes so he wouldn't seem to be staring at his color.

[grantcart]

6. Kelly called Trump "dishonorable"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-comey-john-kelly-called-trump-dishonorable-for-firing-me

LORDY
James Comey: John Kelly Called Trump ‘Dishonorable’ for Firing Me
The former FBI director dishes on his chat with the now-White House chief of staff in new book expected to roil the West Wing.
LACHLAN MARKAY

Within minutes of his firing in May, former FBI Director James Comey received a call from John Kelly, then the head of the Department of Homeland Security and now the White House chief of staff.

According to Comey’s account, which is set to appear in his highly anticipated forthcoming memoir, Kelly was “emotional” over the manner in which Comey was let go. The then-FBI director was in California at the time, speaking to FBI agents in Los Angeles, and only found out that he was out of a job when he saw the news break on TV.

Kelly, Comey recalls, said he was “sick” about the situation and “intended to quit” in protest. Kelly “said he didn’t want to work for dishonorable people,” referring specifically to President Donald Trump, who appeared to be upset at the FBI’s persistent investigation into his campaign’s possible collusion with Russian officials.

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The revelations conveyed by Comey threaten to cause a firestorm within the White House, further complicating an already tenuous relationship between Kelly and Trump. The chief of staff has been on increasingly thin ice with the president in recent weeks, largely dating back to his disastrous handling of the resignation of Rob Porter, a former White House official accused of beating his former wives. Kelly reportedly told Trump in February that he would resign if asked. And Trump has let it be known to numerous aides and confidants that he feels comfortable operating around (and even without) his chief of staff.

[lunasun]

7. I'm sticking with "deplorable" myself.