Notes v. Tapes

Who ya gonna believe? Trump and his Twitter threat? James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017 Or Director Comey and his contemporaneous notes of the conversations between himself and the President? I don’t like what …

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Trump Follies, “The Comey Episode”

I’d just sit back and enjoy this nonsense except that it’s happening to the country I love and have lived in for all but five of my 66 years. White House aides have felt bewildered and alarmed by how Trump arrives at his decisions — often on impulse and emotion and sometimes by rejecting the …

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Comey and the Russians

The FBI told the House Intelligence Committee, the country and the world that it was conducting a counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign and its contacts with Russia during the 2016 Presidential campaign, and that it began that investigation as early as July of last year. A whole lot of Democrats probably cussed at the …

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Email again?

It seems that the FBI’s Mr. Comey ignored his boss’s opinion and standing protocol when he sent that letter to Republican committee chairs yesterday. Even more infuriatingly, he and his agency hadn’t read any of those emails nor even gotten a warrant to do so before he sent it. Top Justice Department officials were described …

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