Discussion: Trump's Lawyer: President Didn't Pressure Comey To Drop Flynn Probe

1 Like

Who are you going to believe the Agent Orangeā€™s shyster or Comey? The fact is Trump has a richly deserved reputation as a liar who lies at the the drop of a hat for any reason or for no reason.

Where are the tapes Trump promised?

11 Likes

5 things abaout Kasowitzā€¦

3 Likes

Clearly, the lawyer wants to turn this into a he said, he saidā€¦As a private citizen however, Comey-come-lately had every right to turn over whatever notes he had to whoever he chose I would surmise. He wasnā€™t sworn to secrecy. Trump didnā€™t invoke executive privilege, and nothing he wrote out could be considered classified, as he no longer is part of the government. Nor did he say anything that would impede the investigation by Mueller. If anything, he helped advance a state of understanding for those investigators, and made clear he thought Sessions was in on the shenanigans and about to be forced to recuse himself because of his own ties to Russian influence peddling as part of the pre-election campaign transition team. Nothing is privileged about what he had to say. If anyoneā€™s being defamed, Iā€™d have to go with Comey on this one. If the Pissident has proof that he didnā€™t pressure anyone from some recording he hasā€¦he should provide that to Mueller.

12 Likes

The GOP and Trumpā€™s people have certainly deployed their freshly sharpened Ginzu knives on the verbal parsing here today.

I know that Trump can be quite the doofus, but even a doofus knows not to order or direct his top people to do something clearly illegal or that is a clear obstruction of justice. You need to retain ā€œcredible deniabilityā€. Keep it ā€œhe said-he saidā€ if it ever comes out, etcā€¦

With regards to the two intelligence chiefs, both were asked and confirmed they were not ā€œDirectedā€ or ā€œOrderedā€ or ā€œPressuredā€ to do anything wrong. Probably true from a purely semantic point of view.

Where Comey is concerned, same deal. The Committee used those worthless words again, ā€œorderedā€, ā€œdirectedā€, which of course, he could not claim happened, but then they used his negative response to those words as ammunition to deflect away from Trump.

But thereā€™s another word I donā€™t think anyone used at all in regard to Trumpā€™s actions. ā€œSuggestedā€.

Because Trump certainly strongly suggested that Comey let the Russia and Flynn things goā€¦ just drop the investigations. ā€œI hope you can see yourself clear to let this thing goā€¦ā€ is a strong suggestion coming from a Predisent.

When a Precedent strongly suggests you do something (without ordering it), it implicitly resembles a directive, because the Predisent is clearly letting you know what he wants to have happen. If you are both wise in the ways of ā€œcareful-speakā€, it would be obvious that the suggestion is being coined that way to avoid incriminating anyoneā€¦

No-one asked those intel chiefs if anything had been suggested to them. I wonder how they would have answered that questionā€¦

Trumpā€™s little hands are dirty, and we can all smell it from here.

6 Likes

Not only has Trump NOT been tweeting this morning, but his Twitter feed has been scrubbed. All the Russia and Comey related tweets of the past few days are gone.

So apparently, Kasowitz has some pull with Donnie Dipshit.

11 Likes

Yeah, ā€œtop-tierā€ lawyer, that oneā€¦ smh

ā€œBirds of a feather flock togetherā€. It actually says more about Trumpā€™s character that heā€™d hire this guy.

8 Likes

And Marc Kasowitz absolutely knows what Trump did or did not say because he was a first-person witness to the encounters between Comey & Trump, right? Yea right.

Unless there actually is an unedited recording of the Trump/Comey conversations, this is merely a he said-he said dispute, and when it comes to credibility, Trump and his attorney are nowhere near being in Comeyā€™s league.

8 Likes

At least Kasowitz doesnā€™t look like a mob lawyer.

12 Likes

To a Mob Lawyer like Kasowitz, Iā€™m sure it didnā€™t ā€œrise to the level of pressureā€ he is used to seeing.

No broken fingers, no cattle-prods used, no family members assaulted or killed.

ā€œNuā€™ttin to see here! If ā€œthe Donā€ wanted to apply ā€œpressureā€ believe me, he wouldā€™ve applied PRESSURE. He He Heā€¦ā€

3 Likes

Makes you wonder what ā€˜magic wandā€™ Kasowitz waved at Trumpā€¦

You forgot to add ā€œyetā€ to the end of those sentences.

3 Likes

I think the pull he has is simply stating factsā€¦ ā€œAll that stuff youā€™ve been tweeting? Weakens your case. Scrub it.ā€

Scrubbed.

He probably also advised Predisent Trump not to tweet at all. Let Don Jr. handle it. Credible deniability. blah blah blahā€¦

My read is, Trump is girding his loins for a fight that goes way beyond his Russia problemā€¦

2 Likes

The President also never told Mr. Comey, quote, I need loyalty, I expect loyalty, close quote. He never said it in form, and he never said it in substance,ā€ Kasowitz said.

But, Kasowitz hedged, ā€œOf course, the Office of the President is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving the administration.ā€

7 Likes

ā€œPoof. Gone! Itā€™s a good thing the InterTubes always forgets,ā€ the seasoned mob-lawyer Kasowitz told his client.

5 Likes

Once again they are wrong, the President is entitled to expect loyalty to country first.

4 Likes

Trumpā€™s Lawyer: President Predisent Didnā€™t Pressure Comey To Drop Flynn Probe

FIFY :wink:

1 Like

But according to the speaker, Trump should be given a pass on this, because itā€™s never the dogā€™s fault.

4 Likes

Hold on! Arenā€™t those ā€œofficial statements by the President of the United States?ā€ If so, then they need to be preserved as part of the presidential record!

13 Likes

Nowhere has Comey claimed that Trump said ā€œLet Flynn goā€, so Kasowitz is doing the weasel dance very effectively. Every story about the matter has Comey quoting Trump saying ā€œLet it goā€

2 Likes