12/9-10/18: The pressure of all the investigations he and his crewmates are facing is clearly getting to the president. Sunday, he tweet-blasts James Comey, who testified before Congress on Friday.
Once again, we will summarize: “Leakin’ James Comey,” “a
record for who lied the most.” “Rigged fraud headed up by dishonest people.” “Enemy
of the People.”
Monday, Trump rose again early and kept tweet-screaming. The first yowl came at 6:46 a.m., the second fourteen minutes later:
“Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun...No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,...
....which it was not (but even
if it was, it is only a CIVIL CASE, like Obama’s - but it was done correctly by
a lawyer and there would not even be a fine. Lawyer’s liability if he made a
mistake, not me). Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. WITCH HUNT!
As for Comey, he manages to shrug off Trump’s attacks. The usual right-wing outlets claim he covered himself in shame after testifying in front of Congress about the decision of the F.B.I. to end the investigation of Hillary Clinton and open an investigation into the Trump campaign. In reality, his testimony before a Republican-controlled panel on Friday showed a man relaxed. Last September, for example, Trump told a reporter Mueller and Comey were “best friends…And I could give you 100 pictures of him and Comey hugging and kissing each other.”
Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), a member of the House panel, asked Mr. Comey: “Are you best friends with Robert Mueller?”
“I am not,” Comey said. “I admire the heck out of the man, but I don’t know his phone number, I’ve never been to his house, I don’t know his children’s names. I think I had a meal once alone with him in a restaurant. I like him.”
Nadler reassured Comey he’d not ask, “whether he had ever hugged and kissed him.”
“A relief to my wife,” Comey smiled.
As usual, Republicans on the panel tried, again and again and again, to prove that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two F.B.I. agents who had shared critical emails about Candidate Trump, were involved in a plot to ensure Trump would never be elected. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) quoted a text from March 2016, which read, “Hillary should win 100 million to zero.”
Didn’t that sound nefarious, he inquired? Comey said no. He pointed out the obvious for the forty-fifth time. He and Strzok and a handful of others knew well before the election that members of the Trump campaign were under investigation because of contacts with Russia. No one at the F.B.I. uttered a public word. They could easily have derailed the Trump Express.
But they didn’t.
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