Comey On Trump: He's Lying

COMEY RETURNED OVER AND OVER TO THIS IDEA THAT TRUMP COULD
THEORETICALLY BE LYING, AND THAT COMEY BELIEVES THAT HE HAS
FREQUENTLY LIED.
LET'S JUMP INTO THIS MONTAGE SHOWING A SAMPLING
OF THE TIMES THIS THEME CAME UP DURING TODAY'S TESTIMONY.
THE ADMINISTRATION THEN CHOSE TO DEFAME ME AND MORE
IMPORTANTLY THE FBI BY SAYING THAT THE ORGANIZATION WAS IN
DISARRAY, THAT IT WAS POORLY LED, THAT THE WORKFORCE HAD LOST
CONFIDENCE IN ITS LEADER.
THOSE WERE LIES, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
I WAS HONESTLY CONCERNED THAT HE MIGHT LIE ABOUT THE NATURE
OF OUR MEETING, SO I THOUGHT IT IMPORTANT TO DOCUMENT.
THE PRESIDENT SAID, IN ONE CASE I CALLED HIM AND IN
ONE CASE HE CALLED ME, IS THAT ACCURATE?
NO.
THE PRESIDENT WAS ASKED WHETHER HE URGED YOU TO SHUT
DOWN THE INVESTIGATION INTO MICHAEL FLYNN, THE PRESIDENT
RESPONDED, QUOTE, NO, NEXT QUESTION.
IS THAT AN ACCURATE
STATEMENT?
I DON'T BELIEVE IT IS.
THAT IS NOT ALL THE INSTANCES IN WHICH HE EITHER IMPLIED
OR SAID THAT TRUMP HAD BEEN LYING.
AND BY THE WAY, THE WORD LIAR OR LYING IS VERY RARELY USED IN
POLITICS, RIGHT?
BECAUSE LYING INDICATES THAT THERE WAS INTENT,
THERE WAS BAD INTENT, THAT THAT INDIVIDUAL KNEW WHAT THE TRUTH
WAS AN INTENTIONALLY WENT OUT THERE AND PUT OUT LIES, DECEIVED
INDIVIDUALS.
AND IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE COMEY USE THAT WORD, AND
USE IT WITH NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER.
THAT SAID SOMETHING TO ME.
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS RESPONDERS TO THAT, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS
SAID I CAN DEFINITIVELY SAY THE PRESIDENT IS NOT A LIAR.
I SWEAR
TO GOD, IF YOU WATCH THE VIDEO OF HER SAYING THAT, SHE LAUGHS A
LITTLE BIT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
THERE ARE VARIOUS WAYS TO
EXPLAIN THAT BUT I THINK IT'S FUNNY.
SHE GOES ON TO SAY IT'S
FRANKLY INSULTING THAT QUESTION WOULD BE ASKED.
WE ALL
UNDERSTAND, WE'VE BEEN AROUND FOR THE PRIMARY AND THE GENERAL
ELECTION, THIS DUDE LIES UNNECESSARILY, HABITUALLY, WE
ALL GET THAT.
BUT IN THIS CASE I THINK IT WILL HURT HIM BECAUSE
EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE COMEY, I DON'T THINK THEY THINK
HE WENT BEFORE THE SENATE AND JUST LIED TO THEM.
HE HAS GIVEN
THESE ACCOUNTS, SEVEN PAGES OF TESTIMONY WAS RELEASED
YESTERDAY, ACCOUNTS OF MEETINGS AND PHONE CALLS, AND TRUMP IS
IMPLYING THAT COMEY IS LYING, BUT TRUMP IS NOT GIVING AN
ACCOUNT OF THOSE INSTANCES, HE'S NOT SAYING WHAT HE SAID OR HOW
COMEY MIGHT HAVE MISINTERPRETED IT, SO ALL WE HAVE IS COMEY'S
INCREDIBLY DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WHAT HAPPENED, INCLUDING WHAT
DORSEY ENTERED BY, WHO WAS IN THE ROOM AT THE TIME, WAS ASKED
TO LEAVE, AND THEN SILENCE FROM TRUMP, A MAN WHO, IT DOESN'T
APPEAR TO ME LOOKS HESITANT TO DEFEND HIMSELF IF HE HAS
GROUNDS TO DO SO.
ANOTHER THING EVERYONE SHOULD KEEP IN MIND ABOUT THIS STORY
AND THE RESPONSE FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS THAT THEY WILL
LATCH ONTO ANY WHAT I WOULD ARGUE IRRELEVANT COMPONENT OF
HIS TESTIMONY TO MISCHARACTERIZE HIM AND ALSO DELEGITIMIZE WHAT
HE IS SAYING.
DELEGITIMIZE HIM AS A PERSON.
ONE EXAMPLE WOULD
BE THE FACT THAT COMEY HIMSELF WAS THE ONE WHO LEAKED THE MEMO
TO HIS FRIEND, OR COLLEAGUE, AND THEN THAT WAS LEAKED TO THE
MEDIA.
SO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS LATCHING ONTO
THAT AND MINIMIZING HIS TESTIMONY BECAUSE HE LEAKED
SOMETHING.
BUT THE STORY ISN'T WHETHER OR NOT COMEY IS A GOOD
PERSON AND IT WAS A GOOD IDEA FOR HIM TO LEAK SOMETHING, AND
BY THE WAY COMEY TESTIFIED HE DID DO THAT LEAK BECAUSE HE KNEW
TRUMP WOULD GO OUT AND LIE ABOUT HIM AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE
FBI -- BUT THE REAL STORY HERE IS WHAT DID TRUMP ASK COMEY TO
DO, WHAT DID HE MEAN WHEN HE ASKED COMEY TO MAKE THE
INVESTIGATION GO AWAY, OR THAT HE HOPED THE INVESTIGATION WOULD
GO AWAY?
THAT'S THE STORY, DON'T LET ANYONE FROM THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION DISTRACT YOU FROM WHAT'S GOING ON.
THAT'S A THEME THEY COME BACK TO ALL THE TIME, IT'S NOT ABOUT
THE INFORMATION, IT'S ABOUT THE LEAKER -- THAT'S A MEMO JAMES
COMEY WROTE HIMSELF, HE'S ALLOWED TO LEAK IT IF HE WANTS,
AND BY THE WAY YOU ALREADY FIRED HIM AT THAT POINT.
IS A PRIVATE
CITIZEN AND IT'S A NOTE HE WROTE.
MY DIARY IS MY OWN
BUSINESS.
I DON'T LIKE EVEN LEAKED IT TO A FRIEND WHO LEAKED
IT TO THE MEDIA, THAT IS DC B.S. JUST GIVE IT TO THE MEDIA.
OR DO LIKE MILLENNIALS DO AND JUST POSTED ON FACEBOOK.
JUST HAVE IT IN THE BACKGROUND OF YOUR INSTAGRAM STORY.
SOMEBODY WILL CATCH IT.

Comey On Trump: He's Lying

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