FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow claimed, without presenting evidence, that NBC edited a May 2017 interview in which the President said he was thinking of ‘this Russia thing’ when he decided to fire then-FBI Director James Comey. Speaking Wednesday [9-19-18] on CNN’s ‘Cuomo Prime Time,’ Sekulow said the interview — in which Trump said he had made up his mind to fire Comey ‘and in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story’ — had been edited…Trump has previously claimed NBC was caught ‘fudging my tape on Russia,’ but there has been no evidence presented of the network doctoring the tape. CNN has reached out to NBC for comment. The network released both a transcript of the interview in May 2017 and an approximately 13-minute clip of Trump speaking with anchor Lester Holt. During the interview, Trump seemed to admit he was thinking of the Russia investigation when he decided to fire Comey. The administration originally blamed Comey’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails for his dismissal.”
–Kyle Feldscher, “Trump’s attorney claims, without evidence, the President’s 2017 interview on Comey firing was edited,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 19, 2018 12:24 am