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Donald Trump, James Comey and the newly released memos. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP)
VietPress USA (April 20, 2018): President Donald Trump always denies that he never has any collusion with Russia. He fired FBI Director James Comey because he asked Comey to stop FBI investigation on Russian meddling and asked Comey for his loyalty.
After got firing out of his position, James Comey announced that he has his Memos on his meetings and conversations with President Trump and he delivered his Memos to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Yesterday on April 19, 2018, GOP Chairman subpoenaed James Comey's Memo so that the Justice Department on Thursday sent Congress copies of the memos that former FBI Director James B. Comeywrote on his interactions with President Trump, moving to head off a looming subpoena from Capitol Hill.
The memos show Mr. Trump, during a private dinner with Mr. Comey, complaining about his then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, saying “the guy has serious judgment issues.”
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Mr. Comey said he “did not reply or even nod or change my facial expression, which [Mr. Trump] noted because we came back to it later.”
Mr. Trump also disputed the salacious information contained in the so-called “Steele Dossier,” compiled on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Mr. Trump also disputed the salacious information contained in the so-called “Steele Dossier,” compiled on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
“There were no prostitutes. There were never prostitutes,” Mr. Trump said in response to one of the dossier’s accusations.
All told, 15 pages were sent to Congress — and then quickly leaked online. Of the 15 pages, 10 contain classified or secret information that has been redacted, either because they reveal intelligence information or foreign relations information.
Copies of redacted versions of the memos were sent to multiple House and Senate committees. Unredacted versions with the classified information included will be sent Friday by secure means, Mr. Boyd said.
Mr. Comey testified to Congress last year that he specifically avoided classified information in some of the memos so the content could be used. “My thinking was if I write in such a way that won’t include anything that trigger classification, that will make it easier to discuss within FBI and government,” he said then.
But that only applied to some of the seven memos. On one of them, Mr. Comey himself wrote a note saying he was marking it at the “Secret” classification level because of the information.
Some of Mr. Comey’s critics have said he could face legal troubles over the memos, since he leaked some of them to a professor friend who then leaked contents to The New York Times.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, who was one of those who received the memos Thursday, said the documents could clear Mr. Comey. He said a key memo that Mr. Comey’s friend shared with The New York Times, which was released as part of the batch, “is clearly marked ‘UNCLASSIFIED.’”
But Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, gave a different version of events earlier this year. He said Mr. Comey wrote seven memos, four of them were classified, and four were given to the friend. That, Mr. Grassley said, means “at least one” of the memos the former director gave to his friend was classified.
Today, from the copies of James Comey's Memos, Yahoo News noted that FBI Director James Comey reveal that President Trump repeatedly pushed back hard on claims that he once consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, claiming that he didn’t even spend a night in the Russian capital during his 2013 trip there.
At a private dinner with the president Trump on Jan. 27, 2017, Comey wrote, Trump was adamant that the claim about hookers in Moscow, made in a dossier compiled by a former British spy Christopher Steele, was a “complete fabrication.” Trump told Comey he had checked with associates and was reminded “that he didn’t stay overnight in Russia” on the trip, during which he presided over the Miss Universe contest. After flying into Moscow in the morning, he “departed for New York that same night,” Trump told Comey, according to one of the former FBI chief’s memos.
But there is abundant evidence that Trump’s account to the FBI director was false: Social media posts, photographs and the account of at least two associates — including Trump’s former security chief — indicate that Trump arrived in Moscow on Nov. 8, 2013, spent the night at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, and didn’t leave the city until after the Miss Universe was finished late on the evening of Nov. 9.
Still, if Trump could be shown to have consciously lied to Comey — as opposed to misremembering his visit to Moscow — he could theoretically be vulnerable to either being charged with lying to the FBI or obstructing justice, according to Sol Wisenberg, a former federal prosecutor who served as a deputy independent counsel under Ken Starr investigating false statements by Bill Clinton. “You could say it’s an element in obstruction because you’re not allowed to lie to a law enforcement officer,” Wisenberg said.
Read this new details revealed by Yahoo News at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-told-comey-never-slept-moscow-185535745.html
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Trump told Comey he never slept in Moscow. But he did.
WASHINGTON — The newly released memos by FBI Director James Comey reveal that President Trump repeatedly pushed back hard on claims that he once consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, claiming that he didn’t even spend a night in the Russian capital during his 2013 trip there.
At a Jan. 27, 2017, private dinner with the president, Comey wrote, Trump was adamant that the claim about hookers in Moscow, made in a dossier compiled by a former British spy Christopher Steele, was a “complete fabrication.” He told Comey he had checked with associates and was reminded “that he didn’t stay overnight in Russia” on the trip, during which he presided over the Miss Universe contest. After flying into Moscow in the morning, he “departed for New York that same night,” Trump told Comey, according to one of the former FBI chief’s memos.
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But there is abundant evidence that Trump’s account to the FBI director was false: Social media posts, photographs and the account of at least two associates — including Trump’s former security chief — indicate that Trump arrived in Moscow on Nov. 8, 2013, spent the night at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, and didn’t leave the city until after the Miss Universe was finished late on the evening of Nov. 9.
Indeed, Trump himself had previously boasted of spending more time in Moscow than he admitted to Comey. “I called it my weekend in Moscow,” Trump said during a Sept. 15 radio interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.”
As recounted in the book “Russian Roulette” by myself and David Corn, Trump flew to Moscow on Nov. 8, 2013, aboard a plane owned by Phil Ruffin, a wealthy Las Vegas casino magnate, after attending a celebration for evangelist Billy Graham’s 95th birthday the night before in North Carolina. Trump then attended a lunch that day with Russian businessmen at the Nobu restaurant, a swank eatery co-owned by actor Robert De Niro and Aras Agalarov, a billionaire oligarch who was Trump’s partner in the Miss Universe pageant.
A photograph of Trump in front of the Nobu restaurant, standing in broad daylight side by side with Emin Agalarov, the pop-singer son of Aras Agalarov, was posted by the restaurant on its Facebook page. It is dated Nov. 8, 2013.
The posting corroborates the account of Rob Goldstone, Emin Agalarov’s British publicist, who in “Russian Roulette” describes the Nov. 8 lunch in great detail as well as Trump’s attendance at a birthday party for Aras Agalarov later that night. According to Goldstone, Trump stayed at the party until 1:30 a.m. before returning to his hotel room at the Ritz Carlton.
The next day, Nov. 9, Trump is still in Moscow, tweeting about the great time he was having in Moscow and how he was looking forward to the Miss Universe pageant that night. “I was just given a great tour of Moscow — fantastic, hard working people. CITY IS REALLY ENERGIZED! The World will be watching tonight!” Trump wrote in a tweet posted at 6:21 a.m. on Nov. 9.
Keith Schiller, Trump’s longtime security chief, who accompanied him on the trip, corroborated that Trump spent the evening in the city at the Ritz Carlton Hotel when he testified behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee. As recounted by NBC News, the New York Times and other news organizations, Schiller told the panel that on the day they arrived he was approached by an unidentified Russian who offered to send five prostitutes to his hotel room that evening — an offer that Schiller said he turned down.
“That night, two sources said, Schiller said he discussed the conversation with Trump as Trump was walking back to his hotel room, and Schiller said the two men laughed about it as Trump went to bed alone,” according to the NBC News account of Schiller’s testimony. “Schiller testified that he stood outside Trump’s hotel room for a time and then went to bed.
“One source noted that Schiller testified he eventually left Trump’s hotel room door and could not say for sure what happened during the remainder of the night.”
Trump’s apparently false account to Comey doesn’t prove that the allegation about hookers in Moscow is true. Comey has told interviewers this week that he doesn’t know whether the prostitutes claim in the Steele dossier is true, and in “Russian Roulette,” Steele is quoted as telling associates he now believes that there is only a “50-50” chance that the incident actually happened.
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