Comey Told Sessions: Dont Leave Me Alone With Trump
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mr. Comey confronted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and said he did not want to be left alone again with the president, according to current and former law enforcement officials.
Mr. Comey believed Mr. Sessions should protect the F.B.I. from White House influence, the officials said, and pulled him aside after a meeting in February to tell him that private interactions between the F.B.I. director and the president were inappropriate. But Mr. Sessions could not guarantee that the president would not try to talk to Mr. Comey alone again, the officials said.
Mr. Comey did not reveal, however, what had so unnerved him about his Oval Office meeting with the president: Mr. Trumps request that the F.B.I. director end the investigation into the former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, who had just been fired. By the time Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey last month, Mr. Comey had disclosed the meeting to a few of his closest advisers but nobody at the Justice Department, according to the officials, who did not want to be identified discussing Mr. Comeys interactions with Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions.
Mr. Comey will be the center of attention on Thursday during testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he is expected to be quizzed intensely about his interactions with Mr. Trump and why he decided to keep secret the presidents request to end the Flynn investigation.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/politics/comey-sessions-trump.html
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,339 posts)so maybe Drumpf's noggin came too close... oh never mind!
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)wiggs
(7,816 posts)deurbano
(2,895 posts)Sally Yates was still there when Comey accepted the inappropriate private dinner invitation. Did Comey let her know about it beforehand... or later tell her about 45's unethical request for a loyalty pledge? If Comey hadn't gotten fired, would we ever even know about the pressure 45 was exerting?
After seeing Comey interject himself into a presidential election in such an unprecedented and outrageous way... with 45's pollster, Clinton's pollster and Nate Silver agreeing his interference handed the election to 45... why wouldn't 45 think it was okay to cut a side deal with such a compromised official?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-pollster-says-the-election-came-down-to-five-counties
denbot
(9,901 posts)I'll still give credence to his upcoming testimony.
deurbano
(2,895 posts)I just think he is also a giant hypocrite. He felt driven to act as some sort of buffer of integrity between Lynch and the state of the republic (because of B. Clinton's unplanned tarmac conversation with Lynch), but acquiesced to a planned, private, one-on-one dinner with someone whose campaign the FBI was investigating... and also had at least one private phone conversation with 45... and agreed to stay behind a group meeting to meet privately with 45, even after the previous attempt at a loyalty pledge. ALL inappropriate contact, and I would say unethical. But for much less of an ethical violation (the tarmac conversation) Comey decided he had to give a public (and politically damaging) account of the outcome of the email investigation, even after determining Clinton had committed no crime, and even though he was also pronouncing the investigation completed... which then meant he felt he "had" to publicly update that pronouncement at the end of October, then update again to say there was (of course) no "there" there... and the cumulative effect of those sanctimonious (and unprecedented) decisions changed the course of the election. Personally, I think as a former Whitewater prosecutor, he should have recused himself from investigating H. Clinton, at all.
denbot
(9,901 posts)And yes he should had never handled anything regarding candidate Clinton owing to his partisan past.
calimary
(81,421 posts)Called for a chaperone...
Well, shit, I wouldn't want to be alone in a room with him either. For different reasons of course. I wouldn't even want to shake hands with him.
murielm99
(30,754 posts)if you ever have to deal with a narcissist. They can twist anything to make it look like you did something wrong. They lay groundwork for such eventualities.
My mother is a narcissist. For years, I have made it clear that I will never be alone with her. My family knows this.