Trump's lawyer attacks Comey for disclosing content of memos
Source: Politico
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 06/08/2017 02:15 PM EDT Updated 06/08/2017 02:34 PM EDT
President Donald Trumps 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 Comeys 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
(10,024 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Grammy23
(5,810 posts)🐀🐀🐀🐀
No questions. Just get out there and blather in an authoritarian tone. Right....
At least Comey had the guts to face questions.
George II
(67,782 posts)"quote, end quote, quote, end quote.....etc."
He certainly didn't make things better, that's for sure.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Trump? Eh................no. Trump lies like a $3 rug.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)videohead5
(2,178 posts)Was not classified so leaking them means jack squat.
AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)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
(6,635 posts)are trying to claim executive privilege after-the-fact.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)What a bunch of slimy fucks.
Txbluedog
(1,128 posts)has worked out so well for Trump thus far
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)He has lied so much, He doesn't know what he has said in the past.
mac56
(17,569 posts)If he was inclined to lie or disclose, he wouldn't have said that.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)Seriously, these people are such idiots. I'm glad that fool isn't representing me in a legal case.
Eugene
(61,900 posts)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
(4,098 posts)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
(68,868 posts)for validating Comey's testimony, chump
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)That's just what it does too.
What a moron.
George II
(67,782 posts)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
(10,419 posts)Typical Trumpian tactics. Yawn.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)lark
(23,106 posts)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
(70,242 posts)rickford66
(5,524 posts)So Comey has a green light to disclose his end.
Nitram
(22,822 posts)His expertise is in the field of reducing restrictions on campaign donations.