Comey's Unceremonious Firing Boomerangs On Trump

[DonViejo]

By Eric Tucker Published MAY 17, 2017 9:27 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Firing FBI Director James Comey is already coming back to haunt President Donald Trump.

In dismissing Comey last week, Trump created the very real possibility that a respected law enforcement official known for an outspoken nature and willingness to buck political convention could resurface in public. And while Comey himself has been silent, his associates have been exposing intriguing details of his encounters with Trump.

On Tuesday, an associate revealed that Comey had written a memo in which he described Trump asking him to shut down an FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Comey, who was known to keep a paper trail of sensitive meetings, chronicled the president’s request soon after the February Oval Office meeting with the president, an associate who has seen the memo told The Associated Press. The associate was not authorized to discuss the memo by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.

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[shraby]

1. And don't forget that Comey made a memcon every time he talked to trump one on one.

[dalton99a]

2. Important sentence in NYT article:

An F.B.I. agent’s contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.