How Trump took a misleading story on James Comey and turned it into a total fabrication

[applegrove]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-fake-attack-james-comey-explained-5fe05611c7bb

Judd Legum at Think Progress

"SNIP.............


According to The Hill, there were seven memos produced by Comey about his meetings with Trump and four of them contained classified information. Comey, according to his testimony, gave one to the press. Was it one of the memos that contained classified info? The Hill article does not say that it was.

But Comey, as the Washington Post notes, made clear in his Senate testimony that the memo he gave to the press, detailing his February 14th meeting with Trump, was specifically written to exclude classified information.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.): I found it very interesting that, that in the memo that you wrote after this February 14th pull-aside, you made clear that you wrote that memo in a way that was unclassified. If you affirmatively made the decision to write a memo that was unclassified, was that because you felt at some point, the facts of that meeting would have to come clean and come clear, and actually be able to be cleared in a way that could be shared with the American people?

Comey: Well, I remember thinking, this is a very disturbing development, really important to our work. I need to document it and preserve it in a way, and this committee gets this but sometimes when things are classified, it tangled them up.


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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. He must consult with all the nutjob shits that surround him to arrive at the

twisted up bullshit stories he spins out of the facts. He couldn't possibly be doing this himself.

[iamateacher]

2. So important

Thanks!

[spanone]

3. trump is one. dangerous. p.o.s.

[riversedge]

4. The article was written by John Solomon, a top executive with Sinclair Media, which attracted contr

The Hill owes Comey an apology for printing these lies.


.....The “report” did not make that accusation against Comey — although clearly that was the intention of the article.

The article was written by John Solomon, a top executive with Sinclair Media, which attracted controversy by making a deal with the Trump campaign to secure more access in exchange for more favorable, “straighter” coverage.

[Gothmog]

5. Comey is a lawyer and did not break the law

[Solly Mack]

6. Trump took a misleading story and turned it into a total fabrication. That's better.

Because now it covers everything Trump tweets and everything he says at his feel-good rallies.

K&R