Trump consigliere Marc Kasowitz's Contradictory Defense of Donald Trump

President Trump’s personal lawyer offered a contradictory and partially inaccurate defense of his client after James Comey’s testimony on Thursday, accusing the former FBI director of lying under oath before Congress and suggesting he should be criminally investigated for sharing memos he drafted about his private conversations with Trump.


Marc Kasowitz, a Manhattan-based corporate attorney and longtime legal fixer for Trump, began by touting the parts of Comey’s testimony that favored the president. He cited Comey’s assertions he hadn’t seen evidence that Russian hacking affected any vote counts and that Trump himself wasn’t a target of FBI investigation when Trump fired Comey on May 9. He also quoted parts of the testimony as evidence the president “never sought to impede the investigation” into Russian electoral interference.

But he also attacked Comey’s credibility and claims when they cast a negative light on Trump. “The president never told Mr. Comey, ‘I need loyalty, I expect loyalty’ in form or substance,” Kasowitz said, implicitly accusing the former FBI director of perjury. “Of course, the Office of the President is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving in an administration,” he added, before criticizing the internal leaks that have bedeviled Trump’s presidency.


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/marc-kasowitz-comey-hearing/529698/