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Comey to testify publicly about Trump confrontations as early as next week
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Netherscourge
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Comey will probably set up Trump to Tweet self-incriminating comments and Mueller will simply toss them onto the evidence pile.
NullPointer
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He ran to the ring. Rock has zero cardio these days. It's all about the muscles.
He can't go anymore brother.
I'm surprised if that isn't where GOP goes. Deep dive into everything about and surrounding Clinton investigation.
Because it's what Comey is there to talk about.
Obviously.
NullPointer
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Yeah, if Comey says what we all expect him too Trump and the Repubs *need* a counter-narrative, no matter how flimsy, but they'll also try to craft some good swamp-gas soundbites and quotable jabs so that Fox and Breitbart can have their headlines.
And if that fails there's always the tactic of just trying to reduce the testimony to a farce to turn people away from the whole thing.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/excl...mp-obstructed-justice-flynn/story?id=47865739
Exclusive: Comey will stop short of saying Trump obstructed justice in Flynn probe, source says
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The president allegedly said he hoped Comey would drop the Flynn investigation, a request that concerned Comey enough that he documented the conversation in a memo shortly after speaking with the president. In the memo, according to sources close to Comey who reviewed it, Trump said: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," during a February meeting.
The request made Comey uncomfortable, but the source tells ABC News that Comey has told associates he will not accuse the President of obstructing justice.
”He is not going to Congress to make accusations about the President's intent, instead he's there to share his concerns," the source said, and tell the committee ”what made him uneasy" and why he felt a need to write the memo documenting the conversation.
Some legal experts told ABC News that Trump's requests as detailed in the memo, which ABC News has not seen, could meet the legal definition of obstruction.
Comey told associates he plans to testify that despite the unusual request from the president he believed strongly that if he did his job properly he could conduct the investigation in an honest way.
However, Comey has told associates he will not corroborate Trump's claim that on three separate occasions Comey told the president he was not under investigation as part of the probe into Russian meddling in the U.S. election, a source familiar the former director's thinking told ABC News.
Exclusive: Comey will stop short of saying Trump obstructed justice in Flynn probe, source says
Crummy mouse died when posting the article.
The president allegedly said he hoped Comey would drop the Flynn investigation, a request that concerned Comey enough that he documented the conversation in a memo shortly after speaking with the president. In the memo, according to sources close to Comey who reviewed it, Trump said: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go," during a February meeting.
The request made Comey uncomfortable, but the source tells ABC News that Comey has told associates he will not accuse the President of obstructing justice.
”He is not going to Congress to make accusations about the President's intent, instead he's there to share his concerns," the source said, and tell the committee ”what made him uneasy" and why he felt a need to write the memo documenting the conversation.
Some legal experts told ABC News that Trump's requests as detailed in the memo, which ABC News has not seen, could meet the legal definition of obstruction.
Comey told associates he plans to testify that despite the unusual request from the president he believed strongly that if he did his job properly he could conduct the investigation in an honest way.
However, Comey has told associates he will not corroborate Trump's claim that on three separate occasions Comey told the president he was not under investigation as part of the probe into Russian meddling in the U.S. election, a source familiar the former director's thinking told ABC News.
TheLostBigBoss
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I wouldnt expect him to say that, thats not his area anymore and Im sure it was a topic when talking to the special investigator
Any answer on that could potentially provide avenues of questioning that could reveal too much about the investigation.
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