FBI/JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Accusations of lying whizzed across Washington Thursday [6-8-17] as fired FBI Director James Comey concluded his bombshell session on Capitol Hill.
Comey himself suggested during his three-hour sworn testimony that President Donald Trump had a shaky commitment to telling the truth. The White House decried the accusation.
Meanwhile, Trump’s outside lawyer insisted that it was Comey who lied when he detailed conversations between himself and the President, raising the suggestion that Comey committed perjury while testifying under oath.
It amounted to one lawyer’s word against Comey’s, with little indication that the matter will be resolved in the near-term.
Comey told lawmakers during his testimony that Trump wasn’t telling the truth when he characterized the FBI workforce as deeply dissatisfied with the former director’s leadership.
‘Those were lies. Plain and simple,’ Comey told the Senate intelligence committee.”
-Kevin Liptak, “White House rebuffs Comey: ‘The President is not a liar’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 8, 2017 03:55pm