FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump told White House attorneys he wanted the Justice Department to prosecute Hillary Clinton and former FBI director James B. Comey, the latest indication the president views the department as a potential weapon to use against political opponents, according to a report. The New York Times, citing […]
Category: James Comey
11/20/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump told the White House counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute two of his political adversaries: his 2016 challenger, Hillary Clinton, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with the conversation. The lawyer, Donald […]
9/28/2018
FBI/GOP/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has agreed to meet with top House lawmakers to discuss recent reports that he proposed secretly recording President Donald Trump during the tumultuous period after Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, according to a Justice Department source. The agreement to brief lawmakers on […]
9/21/2018
CABINET/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the administration, and he discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office for being unfit. Mr. Rosenstein […]
9/21/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rod Rosenstein and his allies furiously pushed back Friday [9-21-18] against a bombshell New York Times report that the deputy attorney general considered wearing a wire to record President Donald Trump during a tumultuous period last year after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. According to the report, Rosenstein […]
9/20/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI director James Comey said he’s not worried by President Donald Trump’s order to the bureau to release a slew of his text messages, saying he ‘wasn’t a big texter’ when he was at the law enforcement agency. Trump’s sudden Monday [9-17-18] move to release Comey’s communications […]
9/19/2018
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 […]
9/19/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESETIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [9-18-18] that his decision to declassify documents related to the Justice Department’s Russia probe was ‘a great service to the country’ and expressed regret that he had not fired former FBI Director James Comey earlier. In an interview with The Hill, Trump said […]
9/17/2018
FBI/GOP/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump moved on Monday [9-17-18] to immediately release a tranche of former FBI Director James Comey’s text messages and declassify 20 pages of a surveillance application that targeted former campaign adviser Carter Page, Trump’s latest offensive against a Russia investigation that has ensnared associates and has consumed […]
9/3/2018
DEMS/JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….The Democrats, none of whom voted for Jeff Sessions, must love him now. Same thing with Lyin’ James Comey. The Dems all hated him, wanted him out, thought he was disgusting – UNTIL I FIRED HIM! Immediately he became a wonderful man, a saint like figure in fact. Really sick!” […]
9/3/2018
JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump couldn’t wait to launch into the fall political season, an intense 10-week conflagration that marks a hugely consequential chapter in his turbulent presidency. He spent Labor Day, when campaign politicking goes into overdrive, unleashing a raging tweet storm blasting his beleaguered Attorney General Jeff Sessions […]
8/30/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The only thing James Comey ever got right was when he said that President Trump was not under investigation!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 30, 2018 6:56 am […]
8/30/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump sought to backtrack on comments last year in which he tied his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey to a probe into Russian election meddling, accusing NBC News on Thursday of ‘fudging’ their interview, but offering no supporting evidence. Trump made his accusation as […]
8/17/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Fox News has learned that Bruce Ohr wrote Christopher Steele following the firing of James Comey saying that he was afraid the anti-Trump Russia probe will be exposed.’ Charles Payne @FoxBusiness How much more does Mueller have to see? They have blinders on – RIGGED!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]
8/16/2018
JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Very concerned about Comey’s firing, afraid they will be exposed,’ said Bruce Ohr. DOJ’s Emails & Notes show Bruce Ohr’s connection to (phony & discredited) Trump Dossier. A creep thinking he would get caught in a dishonest act. Rigged Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2018 6:53 pm […]
8/15/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The action (the Strzok firing) was a decisive step in the right direction in correcting the wrongs committed by what has been described as Comey’s skinny inner circle.’ Chris Swecker, former FBI Assistant Director.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 15, 2018 9:15am […]
8/12/2018
JAMES COMEY/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s lead personal lawyer, said on Sunday [8-12-18] that the president never had a conversation last year with James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director, about ending the investigation into the fired national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, contradicting a memo Mr. Comey wrote at […]
8/11/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..Will the FBI ever recover it’s once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by Comey, McCabe, Peter S and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired? So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and […]
8/11/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..Will the FBI ever recover it’s once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by Comey, McCabe, Peter S and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired? So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and […]
7/26/2018
JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself. Those concerns now turn out to be well founded. The special counsel, […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTION/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey, a longtime Republican who has clashed with President Donald Trump over the federal Russia probe, urged Americans to vote for Democrats in November congressional elections…Comey was fired in May 2017 over what the Justice Department said was his handling of the FBI investigation into 2016 […]
7/15/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One year after President Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, agents say they have less confidence in the ethics and vision of the bureau’s new leadership, according to internal survey data. The survey results further undercut one of the explanations that President Trump and his aides gave for […]
6/29/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the days after the F.B.I. director James B. Comey was fired last year, the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, repeatedly expressed anger about how the White House used him to rationalize the firing, saying the experience damaged his reputation, according to four people familiar with his outbursts. In public, Mr. […]
6/28/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Peter Strzok worked as the leader of the Rigged Witch Hunt for a long period of time – he got it started and was only fired because the gig was up. But remember, he took his orders from Comey and McCabe and they took their orders from you know […]
6/28/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election! Where is the DNC Server, and why didn’t Shady James Comey and the now disgraced FBI agents take and closely examine it? Why isn’t Hillary/Russia being looked at? So many questions, so much corruption!” […]
6/18/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Comey gave Strozk his marching orders. Mueller is Comey’s best friend. Witch Hunt!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 18, 2018 10:27 am […]
6/15/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump rejected a Justice Department watchdog’s conclusion that there was no political bias in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, saying ‘the scum on top’ of the FBI were shown to be ‘plotting against my election.’ Appearing first on the Fox News program ‘Fox & Friends’ and later […]
6/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Donald Trump was 100% right to fire James Comey.’ Mark Levin” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 7:03 am […]
6/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Why in the world didn’t Barack Obama fire this guy (Comey)?’ asks Mark Levin!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2018 6:53 am […]
6/15/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The IG Report is a total disaster for Comey, his minions and sadly, the FBI. Comey will now officially go down as the worst leader, by far, in the history of the FBI. I did a great service to the people in firing him. Good Instincts. Christopher Wray will bring it […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The former F.B.I. director James B. Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, a critical Justice Department report has concluded, according to officials and others who saw or were briefed on it. But the report, by the department’s inspector […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog found that former FBI Director James Comey’s actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation were ‘extraordinary and insubordinate’ and flouted the department’s norms but that Comey was not motivated by political bias. The inspector general released a sweeping report Thursday detailing a series […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The report that had much of Washington buzzing on Thursday [6-14-18] required 500 pages to outline its findings, but to President Trump, three words mattered most — ‘we’ll stop it.’ Those were the words that a senior F.B.I. agent texted in August 2016 to a colleague who was […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “A long-awaited watchdog report sharply criticized top officials at the Justice Department and FBI, particularly former FBI Director James Comey, over how they handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, but found no evidence that the probe’s conclusions were affected by bias or other political […]
6/14/2018
DEMS/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So, the Democrats make up a phony crime, Collusion with the Russians, pay a fortune to make the crime sound real, illegally leak (Comey) classified information so that a Special Councel will be appointed, and then Collude to make this pile of garbage take on life in Fake News!” -Donald Trump, […]
6/7/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey is about to get dinged in an internal Justice Department review of the agency’s Clinton email probe, and President Donald Trump says he can’t wait. The Justice Department informed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday the report will be released on June 14. How both […]
6/7/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When will people start saying, ‘thank you, Mr. President, for firing James Comey?’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 7, 2018 10:10 am […]
6/7/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The highly anticipated report from the Justice Department’s inspector general is expected to yield an unvarnished account of multiple missteps by former top officials at the department and FBI for their failure to follow long-standing protocols in the handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, according to sources familiar […]
6/5/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What is taking so long with the Inspector General’s Report on Crooked Hillary and Slippery James Comey. Numerous delays. Hope Report is not being changed and made weaker! There are so many horrible things to tell, the public has the right to know. Transparency!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 5, 2018 […]
6/4/2018
JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump and his lawyers are staking out a vision of an unrestrained and all-powerful presidency in a staggeringly audacious defense of his actions related to the Russia probe already shared with special counsel Robert Mueller. The assertions made by Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, who […]
6/3/2018
JAMES COMEY/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Paul Manafort came into the campaign very late and was with us for a short period of time (he represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole & many others over the years), but we should have been told that Comey and the boys were doing a number on him, and he wouldn’t […]
6/1/2018
JAMES COMEY/PARDONS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “There are multiple explanations for President Donald Trump’s latest pardon storm but they are all rooted in a defining character trait — his relish for wielding unchecked power. By expunging the conviction of conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, and by hinting at more controversial pardons to come, Trump is showing […]
5/31/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia! The Corrupt Mainstream Media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it is not true!” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 31, 2018 7:11 am […]
5/25/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: Not surprisingly, the GREAT Men & Women of the FBI are starting to speak out against Comey, McCabe and all of the poli…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2018 4:15 am […]
5/24/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Not surprisingly, the GREAT Men & Women of the FBI are starting to speak out against Comey, McCabe and all of the political corruption and poor leadership found within the top ranks of the FBI. Comey was a terrible and corrupt leader who inflicted great pain on the FBI! #SPYGATE” -Donald […]
4/23/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey pushed back on President Donald Trump’s spying claims on Wednesday [5-23-18], warning that attacking the FBI ‘will do lasting damage to our country.’ In a tweet that did not address the President by name, the former FBI director wrote, ‘Facts matter. The FBI’s use of Confidential […]
5/16/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s attorney has an unlikely new role model for special counsel Robert Mueller: James Comey. Frustrated by the open-ended nature of Mueller’s Russia probe, which hits its one-year mark on Thursday [5-17-18], Rudy Giuliani says Mueller should follow the example Comey set in 2016, when the then-FBI […]
5/11/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey is skipping a closed-door Senate hearing next week to discuss the intelligence community’s findings about Russian interference in the 2016 elections…Comey was among four former intelligence community leaders invited to attend the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. The other three, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, […]
5/10/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/IRAN/JAMES COMEY/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal, even going at it with President Obama, & then Voted AGAINST it! Now he says I should not have terminated the deal – but he doesn’t really believe that! Same with Comey. Thought he was terrible until I fired […]
5/3/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former FBI Director James Comey defended the bureau on Thursday [5-3-18] after Rudy Giuliani compared FBI agents to ‘stormtroopers’ over last month’s raid on President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen…The term ‘stormtroopers’ originated during World War I to describe German assault troops, but it’s also been applied to enforcers of […]
4/27/2018
JAMES COMEY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Trump on Friday [4-27-18] renewed his attacks on the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, kicking off a morning Twitter barrage by once again accusing Mr. Comey of leaking classified information and lying to cover it up, even as the leaders of North and South Korea held a […]
4/27/2018
JAMES COMEY/LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Is everybody believing what is going on. James Comey can’t define what a leak is. He illegally leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION but doesn’t understand what he did or how serious it is. He lied all over the place to cover it up. He’s either very sick or very dumb. Remember sailor!” -Donald […]
4/26/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James Comey thinks Donald Trump is empty, desperate for affirmation and lacks the confidence to be humble — but he still wants him to succeed. In a CNN town hall event Wednesday [4-25-18], Comey built on the devastating character sketch he has created over 10 days promoting his new book, which […]
4/25/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James Comey has shifted hundreds of thousands of copies of a “A Higher Loyalty” and has a bumper bestseller on his hands. But whether his book tour has advanced his goal of alerting Americans to the danger of what he sees as a presidency that threatens ‘much of what is good […]
4/24/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Fired FBI director James Comey’s memoir that details his private meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump sold some 600,000 copies in all formats in its first week, its publisher said on Tuesday [4-24-18], the latest in a series of best-selling political books. Comey’s ‘A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,’ has […]
4/22/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In her first public appearance since James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, began his book tour, Hillary Clinton made only a glancing reference to him in a speech on Sunday [4-22-18] night and instead focused most of her attacks on President Trump, once again likening him to authoritarians. Mrs. […]
4/22/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kim Strassel of the WSJ just said, after reviewing the dumb Comey Memos, ‘you got to ask, what was the purpose of the Special Counsel? There’s no there there.’ Dan Henninger of the WSJ said Memos would show that this would be one of the weakest obstruction cases ever brought!” –Donald […]
4/22/2018
GOP/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘GOP Lawmakers asking Sessions to Investigate Comey and Hillary Clinton.’ @FoxNews Good luck with that request!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 22, 2018 7:22 am […]
4/21/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘At least two Memos Comey shared with a friend contained Classified Information.’ Wall Street Journal” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 21, 2018 5:30 pm […]
4/21/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James Comey’s Memos are Classified, I did not Declassify them. They belong to our Government! Therefore, he broke the law! Additionally, he totally made up many of the things he said I said, and he is already a proven liar and leaker. Where are Memos on Clinton, Lynch & others?” -Donald […]
4/19/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey in memos recounting conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump last year said Trump repeatedly raised concern over salacious allegations in an intelligence dossier, the need for loyalty and ferreting out leakers. The partially redacted memos were handed over on Thursday [4-19-18] by the U.S. Justice […]
4/20/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If House Republicans thought they were helping President Donald Trump by forcing the release of James Comey’s memos, they might want to think again. The documents written by the then-FBI director, detailing his interactions with Trump, present a contemporaneous and deeply unflattering view of a President throwing his weight […]
4/20/2018
JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At least two of the memos that former FBI Director James Comey gave to a friend outside of the government contained information that officials now consider classified, according to people familiar with the matter, prompting a review by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog. Of those two memos, Mr. Comey himself […]
4/20/2018
JAMES COMEY/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “So General Michael Flynn’s life can be totally destroyed while Shadey James Comey can Leak and Lie and make lots of money from a third rate book (that should never have been written). Is that really the way life in America is supposed to work? I don’t think so!” -Donald […]
4/19/2018
JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump spoke in intimate and candid terms to the former F.B.I. director James Comey about some of the most sensitive matters before the agency, including the salacious dossier detailing Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia and the investigation into Michael T. Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser, according to […]
4/19/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James B. Comey is currently a lot of things: ex-director of the F.B.I., ex-United States attorney, author, moral crusader, ‘slimeball’ (according to President Trump) and so ubiquitous that he is impossible to ignore. But whether you think he is a heroic truth teller or a self-aggrandizing grandstander, and there are arguments […]
4/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “A long-awaited U.S. Justice Department internal watchdog report on former FBI chief James Comey’s public disclosures on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state and whether FBI employees leaked information to try to hurt her 2016 presidential bid is expected to be issued next month. […]
4/18/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [4-18-18] that former FBI Director James Comey was not fired because of the Russia investigation — a statement directly at odds with the President’s own comments on Comey’s dismissal. ‘Slippery James Comey, the worst FBI Director in history, was not fired because of the phony Russia […]
4/18/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Slippery James Comey, the worst FBI Director in history, was not fired because of the phony Russia investigation where, by the way, there was NO COLLUSION (except by the Dems)!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2018 7:05 AM […]
4/17/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Diane Kacprowski showed up at 57th Street Books in Chicago early on Tuesday [4-17-18] on a mission to be one of the first to snap up a copy of James Comey’s scalding memoir about his time at the helm of the FBI and his abrupt firing by President Donald Trump. ‘A […]
4/17/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A source close to President Trump said he’s still ‘apoplectic’ about the FBI raids on Michael Cohen’s hotel room, office and home. He continues to be fixated on the raid over everything else, including former FBI Director James Comey’s new book, the source said. The source said he’s concerned about […]
4/16/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When it comes to James B. Comey’s book-tour crusade against President Trump, the question for hard-core Hillary Clinton fans boils down to this: Curse Mr. Comey, or cheer him? Curse him, mostly. They may be card-carrying members of ‘the Resistance,’ who oppose everything that the president stands for, but Mrs. […]
4/16/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For decades, James B. Comey cultivated an image of purity as a lawman who stood above politics and politicians. Then came the book tour. With the release of his memoir this week and a set of high-profile media interviews to publicize it, Mr. Comey — whose firing by President Trump made […]
4/16/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Trump resumed his attacks Monday [4-16-18] on James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and said that Mr. Comey, his former deputy and others ‘committed many crimes!’ The president — in his first Twitter post since the airing of Mr. Comey’s first public interview about his months serving […]
4/16/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump on Monday [4-16-18] accused fired FBI officials James Comey and Andrew McCabe of committing ‘many crimes,’ his latest salvo at the bureau in the wake of the former bureau director’s media tour to support his upcoming book. ‘Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked […]
4/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey said he believes ‘it’s possible’ that Russia has compromising information on President Donald Trump…Comey was fired by the President last year in the midst of the FBI’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign associates colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election. When he was still […]
4/16/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G), then based his decisions on her poll numbers. Disgruntled, he, McCabe, and the others, committed many crimes!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 16, 2018 7:25 am […]
4/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/GOP/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump, his White House staff and the Republican National Committee escalated their attacks on Monday [4-16-18] against the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who called Trump a ‘morally unfit’ leader in an interview. James Comey, who was fired by Trump last year amid an […]
4/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “For the second time in a week, President Trump on Sunday [4-15-18] excoriated the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey in a series of tweets after details from Mr. Comey’s tell-all book were leaked before its official release. In the latest tirade, which unfolded over an hour, the president declared that […]
4/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If there was any chance that President Trump and James B. Comey could have avoided all-out war, it ended Sunday [4-15-18] night. That was when ABC News aired an interview with Mr. Comey, the president’s fired F.B.I. director, as he uses a publicity blitz for his searing tell-all memoir, ‘A Higher […]
4/15/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Slippery James Comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack (he is not smart!), will go down as the WORST FBI Director in history, by far!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 15, 2018 8:07 am […]
4/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I never asked Comey for Personal Loyalty. I hardly even knew this guy. Just another of his many lies. His ‘memos’ are self serving and FAKE!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 15, 2018 7:32 am […]
4/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Comey throws AG Lynch ‘under the bus!’ Why can’t we all find out what happened on the tarmac in the back of the plane with Wild Bill and Lynch? Was she promised a Supreme Court seat, or AG, in order to lay off Hillary. No golf and grandkids talk (give […]
4/15/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The big questions in Comey’s badly reviewed book aren’t answered like, how come he gave up Classified Information (jail), why did he lie to Congress (jail), why did the DNC refuse to give Server to the FBI (why didn’t they TAKE it), why the phony memos, McCabe’s $700,000 & more?” –Donald […]
4/15/2018
HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other words, he was making decisions based on the fact that he thought she was going to win, and he wanted a job. Slimeball!” -Donald Trump, […]
4/13/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Andrew McCabe, the fired FBI deputy director, misled investigators multiple times about his role in a news media disclosure about Hillary Clinton just days before the 2016 presidential election and authorized the release of information to “advance his personal interests,” according to a Justice Department watchdog report. The report alleges […]
4/13/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald J. Trump asked Director James B. Comey of the F.B.I. to investigate and knock down a lurid but unverified report that placed Mr. Trump years earlier in a Moscow hotel suite with prostitutes, explaining to Mr. Comey that the fantastic story was untrue and was painful and distressing to his […]
4/13/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “James B. Comey’s searing, tell-all book touched off a forceful attack on the former F.B.I. director’s character by President Trump and his allies on Friday [4-13-18], even as many Democrats struggled with conflicted feelings about the man they blame for Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election. Pointed and salacious details […]
4/13/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his top aides launched pointed attacks on James Comey on Friday [4-13-18] over his forthcoming tell-all — and the offensive is only expected to intensify in the coming days as the former FBI director embarks on a series of media interviews ahead of the book’s Tuesday [4-17-18] […]
4/13/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took aim at former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey on Friday [4-13-18], calling him a ‘weak and untruthful slime ball’ days ahead of the publication of a new book by Mr. Comey that refers to the president as a ‘deeply flawed person and leader.’ In a […]
4/13/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!” -Donald Trump, […]
4/13/2018
JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..” –Donald Trump, […]
4/13/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey pillories President Donald Trump in his soon-to-be-released book, ‘A Higher Loyalty,’ deriding him as a cruel and selfish liar who is ‘unethical,’ ‘untethered to truth’ and has likely never ‘recoiled from causing another person pain.’ From jabs at Trump’s height to ruminating on the status of […]
4/13/2018
JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump attacked James Comey as a ‘weak and untruthful slime ball’ on Friday [4-13-18] after the fired former FBI director castigated him as an unethical liar and likened him to a mob moss in a searing new memoir.The president fired Comey last May while his agency was investigating potential […]
4/12/2018
GOP/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s allies are preparing an extensive campaign to fight back against James Comey’s publicity tour, trying to undermine the credibility of the former FBI director by reviving the blistering Democratic criticism of him before he was fired nearly a year ago. The battle plan against Comey, obtained by CNN, calls […]
4/11/2018
JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James Comey’s memoir hits bookstores Tuesday [4-17-18], with the former FBI director planning a series of media appearances that will put him back in the public eye as a government watchdog is set to release a report examining his conduct in office. The media appearances, starting with an interview on […]
4/9/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department, accused by President Trump of ‘slow walking’ its response to a congressional inquiry into the F.B.I.’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email case, said on Sunday [4-8-18] that it was appointing a United States attorney to speed the production of documents. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee […]
3/21/2018
JAMES COMEY/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has so far discussed with President Donald Trump’s lawyers four main topics they want to talk about with the President. According to two sources, the areas that the special counsel investigators have indicated they want to pursue with Trump are the President’s role in […]
3/20/2018
JAMES COMEY/JEFF SESSIONS/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump’s reaction to special counsel Robert Mueller grows more irate by the day, attorneys on both sides sat down last week in a rare face-to-face discussion about the topics investigators could inquire of the President. It was the first in-person meeting after several weeks of […]
3/18/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY: “Spent very little time with Andrew McCabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. I don’t believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them Fake Memos?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 18, 2018 07:22am […]