JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/MICHAEL FLYNN: “President Donald Trump loves to talk. To tweet. To be quoted. To sound off. To make news.
Which makes the fact that he hasn’t tweeted in more than 20 hours — despite blockbuster reports that he asked then FBI Director James Comey to end the investigation into former national security adviser Mike Flynn — very, very telling.
To date, the only public utterance from the White House on the Comey memo story is a statement late Tuesday [5-16-17] night attributed to an anonymous White House official. ‘While the President has repeatedly expressed his view that General (Michael) Flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the President has never asked Mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn,’ said the official. ‘The President has the utmost respect for our law enforcement agencies, and all investigations. This is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the President and Mr. Comey.’ “
-Chris Cillizza, “Donald Trump’s silence on the Comey memo is deafening,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 17, 2017 2:14pm