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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*******BREAKING NYT********Trump demanded Comey kiss his ring. He refused
The conversation that night in January, Mr. Comey now believes, was a harbinger of his downfall this week as head of the F.B.I., according to two people who have heard his account of the dinner.
As they ate, the president and Mr. Comey made small talk about the election and the crowd sizes at Mr. Trumps rallies. The president then turned the conversation to whether Mr. Comey would pledge his loyalty to him.
Mr. Comey declined to make that pledge. Instead, Mr. Comey has recounted to others, he told Mr. Trump that he would always be honest with him, but that he was not reliable in the conventional political sense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-regionn
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)He runs the White House like a crime syndicate.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Actual story:
Comey, as the nation's number one law enforcement officer, knew better than to break the law.
The Incompetent-in-Chief, who can barely read the law, cluelessly sought to obstruct justice.
Trump's New Impeachable Offenses: Obstruction of Justice, Conspiracy, Abuse of Power
2naSalit
(86,610 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Clearly someone very close to Comey.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)niyad
(113,303 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Always has been. Always will be.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,140 posts)I've heard that narcissists will refer to themselves in the third person when speaking, but what kind of fucked up mental illness makes someone think of themselves in the third person?
At this point, I'd take a Pence in the Oval Office, if it means keeping Trump away from the nuclear launch codes.
The VP and the cabinet need to invoke the 25th Amendment immediately.
harun
(11,348 posts)Hekate
(90,683 posts)canetoad
(17,160 posts)I've just watched a bit of the Lester Holt interview and that lying bag of shit said that Comey asked for the dinner.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)The pathological liar. USA! USA!
canetoad
(17,160 posts)Hope all is well with you
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Here, I'm just boppin along, singin my song.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)how all this works.. I tried to find the Gladiator scene W/ Comodus & Maximus in the tent but couldn't find it - perfect for this..
niyad
(113,303 posts)demanding loyalty from comey
MFM008
(19,808 posts)To Der Furer. How could this go wrong.