LEAKED: Trump Asked Comey To Drop Flynn Investigation

THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED YESTERDAY ON THE CONTENTS OF A
PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN MEMO WRITTEN BY FORMER FBI HEAD JAMES COMEY
CONCERNING A CONVERSATION HE HAD WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP IN
FEBRUARY.
THIS WAS THE DAY AFTER MICHAEL FLYNN RESIGNED, AND THE
REVELATIONS INSIDE ARE MINDBLOWING --
APPARENTLY SESSIONS FELT THAT SOME WOULD CONSIDER IT
INAPPROPRIATE TO LEAVE TRUMP IN THE ROOM ALONE WITH THE MAN
HEADING UP THE INVESTIGATION INTO HIS CAMPAIGN.
IT'S
INAPPROPRIATE TO LEAVE TRUMP ALONE IN A ROOM WITH ANYONE.
ESPECIALLY A WOMAN.
BUT WE GO FORWARD INTO THE MEMO, ONCE THE
ROOM HAD BEEN CLEARED AND TRUMP WAS ALONE
IN THE ROOM WITH JAMES
COMEY, TRUMP SAID --
I CERTAINLY WOULD NOT HAVE GONE THAT FAR.
BUT IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT HE SAID AFTER A MONTH PREVIOUS,
DONALD TRUMP HAD REQUESTED A LOYALTY PLEDGE OUT OF HIM, HE
SAID, WELL, I'LL GIVE YOU MY HONESTY.
HE PUTS A LITTLE BOOK
NOTE THERE AND WRITES IT DOWN.
NOW --
IT IS KNOWN BY PEOPLE WHO WORKED WITH COMEY THAT --
THIS FIRST ONE IS A BOMBSHELL --
GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT WILL COME IN THE DAYS AND WEEKS AHEAD.
IT IS A WELL-KNOWN FACT BY EVERYONE THAT COMEY WRITES THOSE
MEMOS, HE DID IT WHEN HE WORKED UNDER BUSH, HE OBJECTED TO THE
WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING PROGRAM, WHICH WAS ILLEGAL IN THE
BEGINNING AND CONTINUES TO BE, BUT THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY,
AND HE WAS A STANDUP GUY AND DID THE RIGHT THING THERE.
AND WHEN
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TRIED TO STEAMROLL HIM AND LIE ABOUT THE
SITUATION HE SAID, I MEAN, I DID PUT A MEMO INTO THE RECORD, IT
TURNED OUT THE VENT FBI DIRECTOR, ROBERT MUELLER, HAD
ALSO DONE A MEMO AND CORROBORATED COMEY'S MEMO, AT
THE TIME COMEY WAS AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, HE WAS
PROVEN RIGHT AND VINDICATED.
IT IS NOT LIKE COMEY'S MEMOS
HAVEN'T CONTRADICTED A PRESIDENT AND BEEN PROVEN RIGHT BEFORE.
TRUMP DOESN'T KNOW ANY OF THIS BECAUSE HE DOESN'T DO ANY
HOMEWORK, AND THAT'S WHY I SAID THE DAY HE DECIDED TO KEEP
COMEY, I SAID ON THE YOUNG TURKS FOR HIM IT'S A TERRIBLE MISTAKE
BECAUSE COMEY'S A SMART GUY AND VIEWS HIMSELF AS A HERO FOR
BETTER OR WORSE, YES HE LIKES THE SPOTLIGHT AND YES HE LIKES
TO CONTRADICT HIS BOSSES TO SHOW HE HAS PRINCIPAL.
AND TRUMP WILL
BE A TARGET-RICH ZONE, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE TURNED OUT TO
BE, AND COMEY DOCUMENTED ALONG.
THE FOLKS HE TALKS TO SAID HE
WAS MADE VERY UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE CONVERSATIONS HE HAD WITH
DONALD TRUMP.
AGAIN HE'S NOT ALONE IN THAT CATEGORY.
BUT IF
YOU ASK AN FBI DIRECTOR TO STOP AN ACTIVE INVESTIGATION, THAT IS
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE 101.
IF YOU LOOK AT OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE IN THE DICTIONARY, IT WILL GIVE YOU THAT EXAMPLE.
THE CLASSIC EXAMPLE FROM WATERGATE WAS THIS EXACT SAME
THING.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU SAID HE ASKED HIM TO STOP THE
INVESTIGATION, STEVE DOOCY TOLD ME THROUGH FOX AND FRIENDS HE
JUST SAID HE HOPES HE CAN LET IT GO, HE DIDN'T ORDER HIM TO.
ISN'T THAT DIFFERENT?
LIKE IF YOU ARE IN A ROOM WITH A MOBSTER
HOLDING A BASEBALL BAT AND HE SAYS I WOULDN'T WANT TO SEE YOUR
NICE BELONGINGS GET SMASHED, YOU SHOULDN'T LOOK INTO THIS --
HE DIDN'T TELL HIM NOT TO, HE JUST THREATENED HIM.
HE SAID I HOPE YOU PAY ME THE VIG.
HE DIDN'T SAY I'M ORDERING YOU TO PAY.
EXACTLY.
WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE MEMO, THE WHITE HOUSE IS SAYING
IT'S NOT TRUE, TRUMP HAS NOT SPECIFICALLY SPOKEN ABOUT IT
YET, THERE IS SILENCE, PERHAPS THE LONGEST GAP WITH NO TWEETS
FROM TRUMP SO FAR, HE'S NEVER GOING TO FORBID IN THE PAST
YEAR, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE BELIEVES, BUT WE WILL GET TO
MORE OF THAT IN A SECOND.
WE HAVE ONE STATEMENT FROM A WHITE
HOUSE OFFICIAL SAYING --
THAT SEEMS LIKE A PRETTY CATEGORICAL DENIAL OF WHAT HAS
BEEN REPORTED.
THEORETICALLY THERE ARE TAPES OF THIS,
ACCORDING TO THE PRESIDENT, PERHAPS, MAYBE WE WILL FIND OUT
MORE ABOUT IT.
BUT WE DID HEAR THIS.
AGAIN, LEAKS COME OUT
EVERY DAY ABOUT THE STATE OF MOREL IN THE WHITE HOUSE --
HE HASN'T BEEN HEARD FROM SINCE, HE IS STILL PRESSING THE
RED BUTTON TO HAVE DIET COKE DELIVERED TO HIS ROOM.
THAT THE
ONLY EVIDENCE WE HAVE THAT HE STILL ALIVE.
YOU WERE TALKING
ABOUT TEXTBOOK ABSORPTION OF JUSTICE -- SUPER FAST, LET'S GO
THROUGH THIS.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER BECOMING PRESIDENT HE SITS DOWN
AT A DINNER WITH COMEY AND ASKS HIM TO PLEDGE HIS LOYALTY TO
HIM.
THEN A COUPLE WEEKS LATER HE TELLS THEM TO STOP
INVESTIGATING MICHAEL FLYNN.
A FEW WEEKS AFTER THAT, HE FINDS
OUT THROUGH JEFF SESSIONS THAT COMEY HAS REQUESTED MORE
RESOURCES FOR THAT INVESTIGATION, SO CLEARLY HE HAD
NOT CALLED OFF THE INVESTIGATION.
EVEN FIRES COMEY,
GIVES A PRETEXT HAVING TO DO WITH HILLARY CLINTON,
IMMEDIATELY UNDERCUTS IT BY ADMITTING RUSSIA WAS ON HIS MIND
WHEN HE DID IT, AND THEN STARTED TWEETING THREATS TO JAMES COMEY
BLOB, WHO IS NOW A PRIVATE CITIZEN AT THAT POINT, ABOUT
TAPES HE WILL HAVE OF THEIR CONVERSATIONS.
IT HAS EVERY
ELEMENT OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE IN EXACTLY THE RIGHT
ORDER TO TAKE DOWN A PRESIDENCY, ASSUMING, AND THERE IS NO
REASON WE SHOULD ASSUME THIS, THAT OUR COUNTRY STILL
OPERATES UNDER THE RULE OF LAW.
LET ME ADD TO THAT, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT DONE WITH HIM YET.
FIRST
OF ALL ON THE TAPES, COMEY'S ASSOCIATES ARE NOW TELLING THE
PRESS, PLEASE LET THERE BE TAPES.
BECAUSE THEY ARE OF
COURSE CONFIDENT THAT COMEY IS TELLING THE TRUTH AND TRUMP, FOR
THE BILLIONTH TIME IN A ROW, IS NOT.
THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES
CONFIDENT THAT TRUMP MIGHT NOT BE TELLING THE TRUTH.
WHEN HIS
OWN AIDES WERE ASKED IF THEY KNOW IF THERE ARE TAPES AND WHAT
WAS SAID, FIRST OF ALL THEY SAID IF THERE ARE TAPES WE HAVEN'T
HEARD IT, BUT BOY THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING, RIGHT?
AND THEY
SAID IT'S NOT LIKE WE WERE IN ON THE MEETING, WE HAD NO IDEA.
WE
STILL DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT WAS SAID.
THAT BACKS UP THE PART WHERE HE CLEARED THE ROOM.
IF YOU ARE A TOP AIDE TO SOMEONE, PRESUMABLY YOU BELIEVE
AND TRUST THEM, SO IF SOMEONE IN THE PRESS ASK YOU ABOUT THIS
YUGO, OF COURSE THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT, THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS.
YOU
DON'T GO, I DON'T KNOW.
YOU GO, I DON'T KNOW, WHEN YOU KNOW THE
GUY HAS LIED EVERY OTHER TIME.
NOW IT'S GETTING SO BAD THAT
AIDES ARE REFUSING TO PUT THEIR NAMES ON MEMOS BECAUSE THEY ARE
AFRAID THAT DONALD TRUMP WILL CONTRADICT THEM IN TWEETS HOURS
LATER.
THEY LIE FOR TRUMP, THEY GO OUT AND SAY THIS FIRING COMEY
WASN'T ABOUT RUSSIA, THEN TRUMP GOES ON TV AND SAYS IT WAS ABOUT
RUSSIA.
THEY SAY IT WAS ABOUT HILLARY, HE GOES ON AND SAYS IT
WASN'T. SO WE AREN'T GOING TO DO IT ANYMORE, WE AREN'T GOING TO
DO YOUR LIE AND THEN YOU CONTRADICT US ONE HOUR LATER.
EVEN ON THIS ONE HE DID THE SAME THING.
I'M SORRY, WHEN HE GAVE
AWAY THE SECRETS TO RUSSIA.
MCMASTER LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT.
MCMASTER AND SPICER AND EVERYONE SAID HE DIDN'T GIVE
AWAY ANY SECRETS, THEN A COUPLE HOURS LATER HE TWEETED SO WHAT,
I CAN GIVE AWAY SECRETS, I'M THE PRESIDENT.
AY YIY YIY.
THEY'VE
HAD ENOUGH OF THAT, THEY DON'T BELIEVE HIM EITHER.
THE DATES
ARE RELEVANT BECAUSE THE DINNER HE HAD WITH COMEY WHERE HE ASKED
FOR THE PLEDGE OF LOYALTY WAS ONE DAY AFTER THE FBI STARTED
INVESTIGATING AND QUESTIONING MIKE FLYNN.
THE FEBRUARY 14
MEETING WHERE HE TELLS HIM TO LET THE FLYNN INVESTIGATION GO
IS ONE DAY AFTER FLYNN RESIGNED FROM OFFICE, SLASH WAS FIRED.
AND THE FIRING WAS JUST A COUPLE DAYS AFTER HE
REQUESTED MORE RESOURCES, IT WAS AN IMMEDIATE TURNAROUND.
BOTH TIMES THE MINUTE FLYNN IS THE CENTER OF AN INVESTIGATION
HE GOES TO THE FBI AND SAYS STOP INVESTIGATING HIM.
THAT TELLS
YOU TWO THINGS.
ONE IS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, THE
SECOND THING IS THAT FLYNN HAS GOT SOMETHING.
TRUMP IS IN A
PANIC OVER WHAT FLYNN MIGHT SAY.
THERE IS ANOTHER STORY OUT WHERE
AIDES ARE PRACTICALLY TACKLING DONALD TRUMP SO THAT HE DOESN'T
CALL MIKE FLYNN, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE TAMPERING WITH A
WITNESS, YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
BUT HE'S DYING TO CALL HIM. AND YOU
KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO SAY, IT WON'T BE SOPHISTICATED.
HEY
MIKE, DON'T TELL THEM WHAT WE DID.
WE MIGHT CONSIDER MIKE
FLYNN'S OFFER OF IMMUNITY IF HE'S REALLY GOT SOMETHING ABOUT
OUR RUSSIAN DEAL TRUMP HAS DONE.
SO HOLD FOR THAT, THIS GUY IS ON
BORROWED TIME.
PENCE IS WARMING UP IN THE BULLPEN, THIS IS
REALLY BAD. AND ON THE 75 MINUTES, I HAVE TO GO BACK TO
THAT.
IMAGINE YOU HAVE DEMOCRATS TALKING ABOUT IMPEACHMENT, AND
YOU HAVE REPUBLICANS NOT REBUTTING THEM -- BRETT BAIER ON
FOX NEWS SAID THERE ARE NOT REPUBLICANS WILLING TO GO ON
CAMERA TONIGHT AS OF YET.
WHITE HOUSE ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS
SAID THERE IS THIS MISUNDERSTANDING THAT ALL THESE
PEOPLE WANT TO GO OUT THERE AND DEFEND US.
WHO ARE THEY?
YOU
WANT TO CALL THEM?
THEY HAVE NO ALLIES.
THEY ARE LIKE, I DON'T
KNOW ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BACK US UP.
THAT'S THE NIGHTMARE
SCENARIO THEY ARE IN POLITICALLY, AND THEN THE GUY
GOES YOU GOT THIS, HE GOES UPSTAIRS AND WATCHES REALITY TV.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
YOU RETIRE TO YOUR RESIDENCE 75 MINUTES
INTO THE BIGGEST STORY OF YOUR PRESIDENCY ABOUT HOW YOU MIGHT
HAVE OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE?
YOU KNOW WHY?
HE'S A CHILD AND HE
DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO ACT, SO HE IS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW.
AND HE
RUNS AWAY.
AND AFTERWARDS WHEN PEOPLE START MAKING UP LIES AND
BUNGLING, BECAUSE THERE IS NO CORRECT WAY TO HANDLE THIS, HE
WILL COME OUT AND BE ANGRY AT THEM.
YOU SCREWED UP, IT WASN'T
ME.
SEAN SPICER DID IT WRONG, WHY DID HE HIDE IN THE BUSHES
AND NOT DO THE LIES I TOLD HIM TO?
HE WANTS TO BE ABLE TO BLAME
SOMEONE ELSE, HE SAW READY TO RUN AWAY.
THAT IS WHY ROGER
STONE IS GOING AROUND WITH THE ALZHEIMER'S RUMORS.
EVERYBODY IS
READY TO PULL THE CHUTE.
AND FINALLY ON THE REPUBLICAN
REACTION, I TOLD YOU THE THREE STEPS BEFORE HE RESIGNS -- ONE
IS REPUBLICAN START BACKING AWAY, CHAFFETZ ALREADY DID THAT,
AND NOW CHAFFETZ COMES IN AND SAYS I HAVE MY SUBPOENA
PEN, I'M READY TO SEE THOSE MEMOS.
ONE WEEK FROM NOW HE IS REQUESTED ALL MEMOS
CONCERNING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN COMEY AND TRUMP.
THAT IS A BOLD MOVE.
THEN I REALIZED SOMETHING MICHAEL SHURE
HAD SHOWN IN HIS REPORTING ON TYT POLITICS DURING THE CAMPAIGN
-- MORMONS PARTICULARLY DISLIKE OF DONALD TRUMP.
EVAN MCMULLIN
DID REALLY WELL IN UTAH, AND IT'S NOT JUST BECAUSE OF EVAN
MCMULLIN -- THEY ARE IMMIGRANTS IN THIS COUNTRY IN A LOT OF
WAYS, THEY FEEL LIKE THEY ARE A MINORITY THAT IS DISCRIMINATED
AGAINST.
THEY DON'T LIKE TRUMP'S TALK AGAINST IMMIGRANTS AND
MUSLIMS.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT, MICHAEL INTERVIEW PEOPLE, IT
TURNS OUT THAT THE REAL THING.
SO IF CHAFFETZ, WHO'S THINKING
ABOUT RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR IN UTAH AND WON'T STAY IN THE HOUSE
ANYMORE, GOES KNOW WHAT?
LET ME SEE THOSE MEMOS, LET'S SEE WHERE
THIS LEADS, HE'S IN A WORLD OF TROUBLE.
THAT IS STEP ONE.
STEP
TWO IS HIS OLD ENEMIES, LINDSEY GRAHAM AND JOHN MCCAIN, COME TO
SHIV HIM.
ON THAT NOTE WE HAVE DONE THE CANE SAYING, WE'VE SEEN
THIS MOVIE BEFORE, I THINK IT APPEARS AT A POINT WHERE IT'S AT
WATERGATE SIZE AND SCALE.
THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT COMMENT, THAT'S A
REPUBLICAN SENATOR TALKING ABOUT HOW THIS IS LIKE WATERGATE.
I
THINK JOHN MCCAIN MIGHT BE LOOKING FORWARD TO A MOMENT
WHERE HE SAYS, I PREFER PRESIDENTS WHO WEREN'T
IMPEACHED.

LEAKED: Trump Asked Comey To Drop Flynn Investigation

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