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By DAVID BADASH APRIL 20, 2018 @ 8:19 AM
The Dept. of Justice Thursday night released to congressional leaders redacted copies of the memos FBI Director Jim Comey wrote detailing his interactions with President Trump before being fired. It was an unprecedented move made only to appease Republicans seeking to discredit Comey.
It backfired.
It also revealed previously undisclosed remarks by Trump, exposing more to the American people how his mind works.
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In one portion of a memo from February 14, 2017, President Trump suggested to his then FBI Director that prison rape would be an effective method of convincing reporters to reveal their sources the people who are leaking to them.
The president then wrapped up our conversation by returning to the issue of finding leakers, Comey wrote, as HuffPost reports. I said something about the value of putting a head on a pike as a message. He replied by saying it may involve putting reporters in jail.
?They spend a couple days in jail, make a new friend, and they are ready to talk, Comey recounted the president saying. I laughed as I walked to the door Reince Priebus had opened.
Some on social media expressed disgust:
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emulatorloo
(44,131 posts)sometimes set up in jail by authorities to be befriended by another sympathetic prisoner who will earn the new prisoners trust and then extract a confession from the new prisoner.
Of course your mileage may vary.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)was thinking.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)disgusting. I hope the media he is targeting give this plenty of ink.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)I've seen hundreds of Prison Rape jokes made on this site, implying that it is Justice, that the victims deserve it for whatever crime they were imprisoned for.
Like the extralegal cherry on top of a sundae of legal punishment.
used to ALWAYS be removed by mods. now, just another day....
vlyons
(10,252 posts)His mind is a filthy sewer. Anytime he reads something resembling compassion and integrity, I know that his staff wrote it for him to "sound" good. But I know that it's just so much a performance of the absurd.
Donald trump is our generation's Ubu Roi
malaise
(269,054 posts)Lock him up!
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
mainer
(12,022 posts)And I think most people do.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)robbob
(3,531 posts)Then tRump suggests throwing them in prison.
...I dont see any good guys in that exchange...
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)re: "head on a pike".
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Putting journalists in jail to reveal their sources, that's bullshit
He was concerned about the leaks, but never denied they were truthful.
Manafort and Cohen will know all about life in prison
procon
(15,805 posts)Seriously, I know way too much about that paunchy, lard butt's sexual perversions.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)Abu Pepe
(637 posts)But keep in mind that in countries that imprison reporters the "new friend" could be the warden and his tool kit, battery and wiring.