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BumRushDaShow

(129,108 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 07:56 PM Jun 2017

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. Trump’s 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. Comey’s 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 president’s request to end the Flynn investigation.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/us/politics/comey-sessions-trump.html



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Comey Told Sessions: Dont Leave Me Alone With Trump (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 OP
Maybe Trump tried to touch his no-no spot? titaniumsalute Jun 2017 #1
Comey is so much taller BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #2
Oh my...LOL titaniumsalute Jun 2017 #3
Double....Oh my,,,!!!!!! Stuart G Jun 2017 #4
I have to live with that picture in my mind now NastyRiffraff Jun 2017 #7
Trump's tax attorneys had the same policy. Never met with him alone. nt wiggs Jun 2017 #5
Good Grief. Comey was unable to resist on his own? And who is leaking this?! Boy Scout Comey? deurbano Jun 2017 #6
Your concern against Comey is noted. denbot Jun 2017 #8
You misunderstand me. I hope Comey's testimony brings down the whole ship of fools. deurbano Jun 2017 #9
Good point about Comey being connected to the Senate Whitewater Committee denbot Jun 2017 #11
Holy Cannoli... calimary Jun 2017 #10
It is best to try to have witnesses murielm99 Jun 2017 #13
Melania probably says that to everyone. milestogo Jun 2017 #12

deurbano

(2,895 posts)
6. Good Grief. Comey was unable to resist on his own? And who is leaking this?! Boy Scout Comey?
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 08:35 PM
Jun 2017

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

deurbano

(2,895 posts)
9. You misunderstand me. I hope Comey's testimony brings down the whole ship of fools.
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 09:44 PM
Jun 2017

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

(9,900 posts)
11. Good point about Comey being connected to the Senate Whitewater Committee
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 10:21 PM
Jun 2017

And yes he should had never handled anything regarding candidate Clinton owing to his partisan past.

calimary

(81,322 posts)
10. Holy Cannoli...
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 10:07 PM
Jun 2017

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

(30,745 posts)
13. It is best to try to have witnesses
Wed Jun 7, 2017, 12:28 AM
Jun 2017

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.

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