Trump's lawyer attacks Comey for disclosing content of memos

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 06/08/2017 02:15 PM EDT Updated 06/08/2017 02:34 PM EDT

President Donald Trump’s outside counsel on Thursday attacked former FBI Director James Comey for disclosing the content of memos he kept of his conversations with Trump, and said the White House will let the authorities determine whether to investigate the ousted FBI chief.

Marc Kasowitz said in a statement following Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier Thursday that he “admitted” to sharing the contents of the memos to a personal friend, who then leaked it to the press. It is not clear if such a disclosure would be a violation.

“Today, Mr. Comey admitted that he unilaterally and surreptitiously made unauthorized disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the President,” Kasowitz said. “We will leave it (to) the appropriate authorities to determine whether this (sic) leaks should be investigated along with all those others being investigated.”

Comey, who kept notes after his interactions with the president, told lawmakers that he shared memos with a friend, with the idea that such a disclosure could lead to a special prosecutor.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/08/trumps-lawyer-attacks-comey-for-disclosing-content-of-memos-239305

[Freethinker65]

1. Please proceed

[SHRED]

2. What a complete idiot

[Grammy23]

3. It didn't take that rat very long to scurry back to his hidey hole.

🐀🐀🐀🐀

No questions. Just get out there and blather in an authoritarian tone. Right....
At least Comey had the guts to face questions.

[George II]

15. My wife was walking around the house while he was going on saying:

"quote, end quote, quote, end quote.....etc."

He certainly didn't make things better, that's for sure.

[SergeStorms]

24. And was under oath.

Trump? Eh................no. Trump lies like a $3 rug.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Show us the tapes... or admit your client's a liar

[videohead5]

5. The Memos

Was not classified so leaking them means jack squat.

[AntiFascist]

12. Exactly...

why do Republicans and leaders such as the DNI and head of the NSA pretend that anything discussed with the president is automatically classified and can't be made public?

[billh58]

21. It appears that they

are trying to claim executive privilege after-the-fact.

[louis-t]

6. Trying to silence and intimidate him.

What a bunch of slimy fucks.

[Txbluedog]

7. Yes, because trying to blame and intimidate the Intelligence Community

has worked out so well for Trump thus far

[yuiyoshida]

8. Trump will lose this time..

He has lied so much, He doesn't know what he has said in the past.

[mac56]

9. IMO this speaks well to Comey's character.

If he was inclined to lie or disclose, he wouldn't have said that.

[herding cats]

10. The memo he had his friend give to the press said the same thing he talked about today in public.

Seriously, these people are such idiots. I'm glad that fool isn't representing me in a legal case.

[Eugene]

11. MSNBC reported Kasowitz's chronology is wrong, especially about the NYT "leak".

Comey's notes emerged 4 days AFTER Trump brought up the "tapes."

Trump has hired a big time defense lawyer to spin like a tornado.

[Ray Bruns]

13. There is no such thing as privileged communications

between the Head of the FBI and the president if the president doesn't assert executive privilege you moron. Because you orange brat of a boss didn't assert it.

[geek tragedy]

14. 1) those memos not covered by any statutes; 2) no executive privilege; 3) thanks

for validating Comey's testimony, chump

[Ligyron]

20. "...validating Comey's testimony,..."

That's just what it does too.

What a moron.

[George II]

16. It wasn't "privileged information", they were notes on unofficial encounters with trump.

No one said before the encounters "this is classified" or "this is off the record". And he didn't surreptitiously make the disclosures, he did it outright. They weren't leaks.

trump got caught with his pants down (figuratively) and now he wants to destroy Comey's veracity.

Screw him.

[spiderpig]

17. Isn't this guy's MO accuse the accuser, sue the suer?

Typical Trumpian tactics. Yawn.

[WinkyDink]

18. And how much more would he need to get a cup of coffee at Starbucks?

[lark]

19. drumpfs lawyer is another person who has deep russian ties.

Of course he'd lie about this. Unfortunately for his side, Drumpf himself went on tv with 2 contradictory versions of the firing, provably lying and everyone in the world who's got ears or eyes knows this. There will be no real Comey investigation, or if Sessions is vile enough to request one, it will go nowhere. This is just another distraction.

[riversedge]

22. Oh, suck it up.

[rickford66]

23. Trump disclosed his end of the conversations.

So Comey has a green light to disclose his end.

[Nitram]

25. Trump's lawyer is way out of his depth.

His expertise is in the field of reducing restrictions on campaign donations.