Tag Archives: Comey

3/17/2018   At 10:00 PM last night, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe. McCabe served as the FBI Deputy Director, second in charge at the bureau. Sessions stated the primary reason for the termination was due to a “lack of candor”, questioning McCabe’s honesty. A particularly interesting take, especially coming from Sessions who has been less than candid himself ...

11/2/2017 In a recent interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Sam Nunberg, a former campaign aide to Donald Trump said “Jared is the worst political adviser in the White House in modern history”.   “I’m only saying publicly what everyone says behind the scenes at Fox News, in conservative media, and the Senate and Congress” Nunberg added.  “Trump is at 33 percent in Gallup. You ...

6/22/2017 After more than five weeks of not revealing whether he had made tapes or not, President Trump today came clean and tweeted that he did not.  On May 12th, Trump had insinuated that he may have had made tapes of conversations he had with then FBI Director James Comey.  Over the next five weeks, neither Trump nor his Press ...

6/18/2017 On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation is widening its probe to include possible obstruction violations by President Trump. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team is interviewing a number of intelligence officials who are known to had conversations with Trump about the Russia investigation.  Upon learning the news, Trump again Tweeted his apparent frustration. ...

6/8/2017 Former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, reiterating many of the things stated in his prepared statement.  Following Mr. Comey’s testimony, President Trump stated that he feels “complete vindication” from accusations that have made against him. Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication…and WOW, Comey is a leaker! — Donald ...

06/07/2017 A day before he is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Former FBI Director James Comey released the prepared statement he plans to offer the committee before being questioned. Contained in the prepared statement are detailed notes of nine instances where Comey and Trump interacted.  The discussions regarded reports that Russia held compromising information on Trump, Michael ...

It started just about as soon as he took office.  The false claims about the crowd size at his inauguration really didn’t matter, but the Trump staff insisted on telling the lie.  When the truth started to get in the way, they tried  “alternative facts”.  it wasn’t long before people in the Trump Administration started to lose credibility and trust, ...

5/16/2017 President Donald Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to shut down his bureau’s investigation into Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a request that Comey documented in a memo, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The news came one week after Trump suddenly fired Comey from his position as FBI Director which set off a firestorm in ...

  President Trump said he was going to fire former FBI Director James Comey anyway, recommendations didn’t matter.  Calling Comey a Showboat and Grandstander, President Trump said he was going to fire FBI Director James Comey regardless of the Deputy Attorney General’s recommendation during an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt.  These statements were in direct conflict with his termination letter ...

President Trump set off a political firestorm on Tuesday by firing FBI Director James Comey.  Only one other FBI Director has ever been fired by a President. The letter of termination references recommendations from both the Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.  Administration staff, including V.P. Pence, Adviser Kellyanne Conway, and Assistant White House Press Secretary ...