Comey Testimony/Prepared Statements Released

[Blue_Adept]

Via Yashar Ali, New York Magazine/GQ/Mother Jones/HuffPost Contributing Writer:

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[RockaFowler]

1. Here is the entire PDF document

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/os-jcomey-060817.pdf


WOW

[athena]

9. Everyone should just read this document

instead of posting questions about what it says. It doesn't take that long to read it in its entirety.

[bettyellen]

2. He DID tell him he wasn't under investigation?

[herding cats]

4. That's what it says.

He told him that specifically.

[cilla4progress]

3. So Comey did tell tRump three times

that he wasn't under investigation??

[triron]

8. huh?? This does not seem consistent with earlier news.

[bettyellen]

5. Details how immediate his notes were. Immediately in car.

Dinner was "a pretense" for request for loyalty.

He asked about Flynn being investigated, not Trump?!?

Implored what?

He used "term of art" to deny DT was being investigated. Didn't mean his organization was not being investigated.

[Thrill]

6. Damn. Why give them the chance to get in front of it

Did he have to give it the Senators?

[Blue_Adept]

7. it's just the opening statement

What matters is the questioning, which can be prepared better with this in hand.

[athena]

10. Comey is such an asshole.

You can sense from his statement that until Trump began demanding inappropriate things from him, he was all for Trump. Even after Trump began behaving inappropriately, his focus was on avoiding open disagreement and making sure, by taking notes and by conferring with other FBI officials, that he himself didn't do or say anything objectionable and wasn't put in an uncomfortable position. The only reason we're hearing any of this today is that he's been fired. If Trump had kept him on, he would have continued to protect Trump from any appearance of impropriety.

Comey clearly did not want want to work under President Hillary Rodham Clinton. He wanted to work under President Donald Trump. Comey is the reason we have President Donald Trump today. Nothing he ever says or does will ever change that.