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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Sep 28, 2020, 09:12 PM Sep 2020

Trump's draft memo firing James Comey was 'tinfoil helmet material,'

according to a former Mueller prosecutor's upcoming book

A former prosecutor on the special counsel Robert Mueller's team described a memo that President Donald Trump drafted laying out his reasons for firing FBI Director James Comey as "tinfoil helmet material," according to a new book.

The former prosecutor, James Quarles, described the memo that way in a conversation with another prosecutor on Mueller's team, Andrew Weissmann, according to Weissmann's upcoming memoir, "Where Law Ends." Business Insider obtained an early copy of the book.

"Read this," Quarles told Weissmann in June 2017, shortly after Mueller's team acquired the draft memo, according to the book. "It's tinfoil helmet material."

The memo, which Trump drafted in May of that year with help from one of his top advisers, gave Mueller's team a valuable window into Trump's thinking in the days before he fired Comey. At the time, Comey was spearheading the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-draft-memo-firing-james-comey-was-tinfoil-helmet-material-according-to-a-former-mueller-prosecutors-upcoming-book/ar-BB19vWvM?li=BBnb7Kz
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Trump's draft memo firing James Comey was 'tinfoil helmet material,' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
"It was excruciatingly juvenile, disorganized, and brimming with spite -- incoherent and narcissist uppityperson Sep 2020 #1

uppityperson

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1. "It was excruciatingly juvenile, disorganized, and brimming with spite -- incoherent and narcissist
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 09:53 PM
Sep 2020
. "It was excruciatingly juvenile, disorganized, and brimming with spite — incoherent and narcissistic. You could almost feel the spittle coming off the paper.
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