Comey expected to refute Trump
 

Going to be an interesting day.

Washington (CNN)In his much-anticipated congressional testimony on Thursday, fired FBI Director James Comey will dispute President Donald Trump's blanket claim that he was told he was not under investigation multiple times, according to sources familiar with Comey's thinking.

Rather, one source said that Comey is expected to tell senators that he never assured Trump he was not under investigation, because such assurances would have been improper. Another source hinted that the President may have misunderstood the exact meaning of Comey's words, especially regarding the FBI's ongoing counterintelligence investigation.
In his letter to Comey firing him, Trump raised the Russia investigation and asserted that: "...I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation." The White House has not provided details of when those three conversations allegedly took place.
In addition, one source familiar with Comey's testimony says that Comey is not going to conclude whether the President obstructed justice regarding the agency's Russia investigation, according to a source with knowledge. Rather, this source says, Comey plans to present himself as a "fact witness" by simply describing the interactions with the President on multiple occasions that made him uneasy enough to memorialize their conversations. He "will leave the legal analysis for others," a source tells CNN.
While Comey is anxious to recount his version of his conversations with the President, he also appears likely to sidestep questions about how he felt about Trump's comments -- for instance, whether he felt pressured to drop the investigation or whether he thought they amounted to obstruction, another source said.
Comey believes that his own feelings about the President's comments are largely "irrelevant," the source said, and that his account of what happened is the central issue. What matters in considering possible obstruction of justice, this source added, is the President's intent, not how Comey felt about it.
The other key issues Comey will address are clear, a source adds -- the allegation that Trump asked Comey to pledge his loyalty to him shortly after he took office, and the President's request to ease up on the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn in the FBI probe into possible collusion with Russia by Trump associates.
The former FBI director recorded at least one of those interactions in a written memo, the now-leaked contents of which paint a picture that some Democrats characterize as bordering on obstruction of justice.
"I hope you can let this go," Trump told Comey during one Oval Office meeting, according to the memo, which was described to CNN by a source.
Members of Congress have asked to see the memos, but it is unclear whether Comey intends to read from them -- or hand them over -- to Congress.
As CNN reported last week, while Comey was "disturbed" by his meetings with the President, he "thought he had the situation under control" because he felt the President did not quite grasp the inappropriateness of his actions. Comey believed, according to one source familiar with his thinking, that the President could be "trained" about how you do and do not interact with an FBI director. He considered it, this source added, "an ongoing policing project."
It is reasonable to conclude, this source added, that Comey did not think of any of the individual actions as constituting obstruction of justice. But, he also added, there is a question of whether the "aggregate pattern of behavior" that culminated in his firing could be seen very differently. In other words, while each episode could be seen as a "ham-handed misstep," the sum of the actions -- capped by the Comey firing -- could become something much more serious, especially after the President told NBC that he was thinking of the Russia investigation when he made the decision to dismiss Comey.
"That would change any rational person's point of view," said one source.
Even so, Comey does not plan to offer his own opinion because he does not believe it's his position to do so.
"There will no doubt be a tension between people trying to have him draw conclusions and being a fact witness," says this source familiar with Comey's thinking, indicating that it is up to the special counsel to draw legal conclusions after conducting a complete legal inquiry "into the White House side of things and not just a few interactions" with Comey.
"At the end of this, will some people jump up and down and say there's an obstructing offense?" asks another source. "Some might, but that's a political judgment, not a legal one."
As CNN first reported last week, Comey reached an understanding with Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, which allowed him to testify about his tense conversations with the President but not the details of the Russia investigation itself. That cleared the way for his appearance on Thursday. Sources say the parameters set by the two men -- who are friends and former colleagues at the Justice Department -- were aimed at avoiding the possibility that Comey's testimony could taint any criminal case that Mueller might ultimately bring.
White House officials had considered trying to invoke the President's executive privilege authority to block the testimony, but they said on Monday that they would not do so.

Comey expected to refute Trump - CNNPolitics.com

Thumbs up for the Brassmonkey copy and paste. :thumbsup
With the the growing drug dependency problem in the United States, Immigration, and ISIS terrorizing the world, this is your focal point ? :1orglaugh

Oh don't worry red hats Trump has created a "safe zone" for you during Comey's testimony. He scheduled a speech at the same time so you guys don't have to hear bad things..

...and who are we going to believe?

A smart former FBI director (and former attorney general) with a reputation for being an honest straight shooter.

A dumb, misinformed half-illiterate scumbag con man who lies as easy as most people breathe. There's so many other adjectives which could describe Donald Trump that I left out.

This will be a interesting for sure....

I think no matter how you try to spin it, Trump fired the man in charge of investigating him. That's obstruction of justice, intentional or otherwise.

Some group is running a Comey attack ad on tv lol

Trump asked Coats to intervene with the FBI director

Holy shit no way?!

He does EVERYTHING someone that has something to hide does :1orglaugh EVERYTHING :1orglaugh

Wait... weren't the dems calling for comey's head on a platter in November lol

Today may be Jeff Sessions last day -- he is looking more and more like the 'Fall guy' Trump needs a TODDI defense ... Survive to fight another day -- that is assured. This is the cut of 1000 knives ...

Keep deflecting! He should have been fired from day one.

Chump kept him because he thought he was a team player and would kiss his ass.
Firing him while he was investigating Chump is the problem, but keep deflecting like a good chumpanzee

Comey has a reputation for telling the truth, where as chump and staff do not!

The only thing HungLo is your IQ

Apparently Sessions tendered his resignation today
and Chump refused it ?

today,,,

Sen. Rubio asked both DNI Coats and NSA Director Rogers if they were asked by Trump to intervene in the Russia investigation. Both officials tried to stand by their previous answer that they weren?t pressured. Rubio pointed out that his question wasn?t about if they were pressured, but if they were asked.

Coats and Rogers refused to answer the question in an open session.

Obviously, if they weren't pressured or asked, they'd have no reason not to answer in a open hearing.. That in it's self is extremely damning because they obviously can't comment on what Trump has said because it's an on going investigation..

Trump has zero credibility at this point. He has to go.. It doesn't matter if they can't prove he did it, his actions have been to undermine the investigation at every point and can not be trusted. Trump equals a national security threat at this point as he's under minding our national security.

He has to go and if Republicans keep trying to dodge this bullet, they have to go as well..

Clearly.

They'll lose their job and they're career military, they don't want to lose decades of disqinguishment with a termination by a president.

Pathetic that stating the truth will end their career, very telling.

Sounds like they are only willing to talk in a closed meeting. So their refusal to talk means what they were asked are part of an ongoing investigation

You can sort of figure already that Comey's top reply will be.."Sorry I can't answer that question in an open session"

FBI Director McCabe testified today that he can't answer because it involves an active criminal investigation involving the president

Comey's full prepared text for tomorrow here:

James Comey?s Prepared Remarks Ahead Of His Testimony Tomorrow | The Daily Caller

Yep, and in that full text of what he is going to testify...guess what?

HE DID TELL TRUMP HE WAS NOT UNDER INVESTIGATION! LOL!

More fake news from CNN and The Washington Post in that original post.

Turns out that Trump is not and never has been under investigation. And he asked Comey to please issue a public statement to that effect so he could get the fake news media off his ass about it.

But Comey wouldn't do that.
There's your big story.

An "investigation" in search of a crime. lol

Liberals after each revelation comes out to refute their attack/agenda.

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Yeah Trump's poll numbers are tanking because only liberals care about Trump's criminal behavior keep drinking that sour redhat Koolaid

The problem with all of you is you are cucks that want one man to have absolute power and that's not the way the world works, let alone America.

@Axeman...that is exactly what they have been doing since Trump first announced he was running: Moving the goal post.

It's all about politics. They are trying to stall Trump and the Congress from implementing Trump's agenda in the hopes that the Congress will look weak (which they do) so that the Democrat Party can win back some seats.

BUT...they NEED to start having a vision if they think they will have any chance at all in 2018.

So far they are making the same mistake that Hillary made.
Not having a vision or a message, and believing their own bullshit and fake polls.

I guess they haven't learned their lesson yet.

And yet his approval rating is still higher than Bill Clinton's was on the same day into his Presidency. Both are bad numbers, but I think Clinton came out alright and won re-election, no?

It was confirmed in today's hearing by McCabe that Trump is under criminal investigation. Whether or not Trump was under investigation before doesn't matter.

Keeping your head in the sanded only changes your perspective, not everyone else's perspective, or the facts.

Amazing that some people still think that the polls are correct.
LOL!

They handpick 500 people and have it weighted double digits percentage-wise with Democrats. Then they ask them a leading question.
And THEN they tell us that the poll represents over 300 million citizens living from coast to coast.

What a joke. And you would THINK that news reporters and people here on GFY would have figured that out by now. Especially after the shock they got on election day.

I guess they will all be in for more of a "shock" when they find out once AGAIN that the polls are rigged and fake.

Trump believes in polls now Robbie get with the program

So, what network carried that safe zone speech?

Trump tweets bragging about his great polling numbers. When they aren't great he never tweets about them.