Sean
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WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting.
“I hope you can let this go,” the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo.
The existence of Mr. Trump’s request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia.
Mr. Comey wrote the memo detailing his conversation with the president immediately after the meeting, which took place the day after Mr. Flynn resigned, according to two people who read the memo. The memo was part of a paper trail Mr. Comey created documenting what he perceived as the president’s improper efforts to influence a continuing investigation. An F.B.I. agent’s contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.
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Mr. Comey created similar memos — including some that are classified — about every phone call and meeting he had with the president, the two people said. It is unclear whether Mr. Comey told the Justice Department about the conversation or his memos.
Are memos Comey wrote admissible? He could have written anything. His word against Trump's. Probably going to need more than Comey's memos. Actual transcriptions of meetings, recordings. All Trump has to do is lie and claim that the memos are fakes. Third party witnesses to talks? If not than the RWCJ will just go on about fake news, confidential sources and liberal lies.
Here's hoping Comey does have recordings of meetings!
In '72 they had tapes. What do they have now?
Are memos Comey wrote admissible? He could have written anything. His word against Trump's.
The fact that Comey said no and got fired?
"An F.B.I. agent’s contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations."
Mr. Comey shared the existence of the memo with senior F.B.I. officials and close associates. The New York Times has not viewed a copy of the memo, which is unclassified, but one of Mr. Comey’s associates read parts of the memo to a Times reporter.
From the article...
An unidentified associate that read an unclassified memo to an unidentified Times reporter?
Are memos Comey wrote admissible? He could have written anything. His word against Trump's. Probably going to need more than Comey's memos. Actual transcriptions of meetings, recordings. All Trump has to do is lie and claim that the memos are fakes. Third party witnesses to talks? If not than the RWCJ will just go on about fake news, confidential sources and liberal lies.
Here's hoping Comey does have recordings of meetings!
An F.B.I. agent’s contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.
In '72 they had tapes. What do they have now?
"Dad, you must have jumped our car over fifty yards!"
Nothing to be proud of Russ. Fifty yards...
So there is legal precedence.
Something something crime something something cover-up.In 1972 they also had an actual crime -- a break-in where the suspects were caught in the act. Justice was clearly obstructed with regard to an attempt to impede that prosecution.
What do we have now? An active investigation into WHETHER a crime was committed which the President may or may not have requested be terminated PERHAPS under the theory that since Flynn was let go there was nothing left to be gained as a result of continuing it. To whatever degree that request, if made, was a bad idea, it MAY still fall short of a prosecutable crime in the same way that Hillary's bad idea of a private email server ALSO fell short of the same standard.
If you're a Hillary fan and comfortable with the latter rationale, why would you NOT at least entertain the possibility of the former rationale?
Without Deep Throat Nixon may have kept his position.
The Post is reporting that DOJ saw the memo. Which means Sessions and Rosenstein signed off on Comey's firing knowing the POTUS interfered with an ongoing FBI investigation.
Are memos Comey wrote admissible? He could have written anything. His word against Trump's. Probably going to need more than Comey's memos. Actual transcriptions of meetings, recordings. All Trump has to do is lie and claim that the memos are fakes. Third party witnesses to talks? If not than the RWCJ will just go on about fake news, confidential sources and liberal lies.
Here's hoping Comey does have recordings of meetings!