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ElementaryPenguin

(7,800 posts)
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 03:44 PM Jun 2017

Trump IS under FBI investigation - as is everyone who was involved in the Trump campaign...

Obviously, an investigation of any political campaign would include the candidate themselves.

Do you not believe that Hillary Clinton would be considered part of the Clinton Campaign?

Comey, pressured by Benedict Donald, was able to assure the orange menace that he wasn't being investigated as an individual (which, technically, he wasn't). This was perhaps the argument Comey was having with his FBI colleague(s).

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Trump IS under FBI investigation - as is everyone who was involved in the Trump campaign... (Original Post) ElementaryPenguin Jun 2017 OP
Could Comey have said: awesomerwb1 Jun 2017 #1
I thought he did. WinkyDink Jun 2017 #2
What was the 'salacious' 'personal' stuff Comey referred to? leftstreet Jun 2017 #3
The Russian hooker episode. yellerpup Jun 2017 #5
Change that to 'transition team'... Comey said no collusion between campaign and russia 4139 Jun 2017 #4
Nope. Remember, what led to Comey being fired... ElementaryPenguin Jun 2017 #6

leftstreet

(36,109 posts)
3. What was the 'salacious' 'personal' stuff Comey referred to?
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 03:52 PM
Jun 2017

Media were determined to report “salacious and unverified” accusations regarding Donald Trump, his 2016 election and Russia, former FBI Director James Comey says in written testimony submitted on the eve of his Thursday appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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Regarding any media “effort to compromise an incoming president,” Comey says IC leaders thought they might be able to “blunt any such effort with a defensive briefing”:

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At the conclusion of that briefing, I remained alone with the President-Elect to brief him on some personally sensitive aspects of the information assembled during the assessment.

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“The IC leadership thought it important, for a variety of reasons, to alert the incoming President to the existence of this material, even though it was salacious and unverified.

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Comey says he was chosen to brief Trump privately to “minimize potential embarrassment to the President-Elect” and reassure him if feared he might be under investigation:

http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/comey-even-though-it-was-salacious-and-unverified-we-knew-media-was-about

So what was it?

ElementaryPenguin

(7,800 posts)
6. Nope. Remember, what led to Comey being fired...
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 06:07 PM
Jun 2017

Was announcing at the House Intelligence hearing that the Trump campaign was under an FBI investigation for possible coordination with Russia... (not the transition team - the investigation had begun last July)

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