Trump accuses James Comey of breaking the law based on a misleading Fox News report

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Summary.
Total of 7 Comey memos, 4 of these 7 secret or confidential, **One memo of the 3 not confidential, secret nor classified was given to friend.

My guess is that neither Fox and friends, The Hill, Trump, nor Jason in the House will make a correction



Politics Analysis
Trump accuses James Comey of breaking the law — based on a misleading Fox News report

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/07/10/trump-accuses-james-comey-of-breaking-the-law-based-on-a-misleading-fox-news-report/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_comey-916am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&tid=a_inl&utm_term=.3a53f84d3141



By Philip Bump July 10 at 9:10 AM


..................During his testimony, Comey refers to the memo he gave to his friend in the singular — “the memo.” There’s no indication that he asked that one of the classified memos be leaked. In fact, his testimony — under oath, remember — was the opposite.

In other words, Comey asserted that the scenario looked something like this:




https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484



The tweet from “Fox and Friends” based on the Hill report is incorrect. And so, too, is Trump’s tweet. If there was classified information in the memo that Comey asked his friend to leak to the Times, that’s not yet been reported.

Which is not to say that Comey’s behavior was without concern. FBI agents sign an agreement prohibiting unauthorized disclosures of certain types of material. The Hill’s report notes that the FBI apparently considers Comey’s memos to have been government documents, not his own personal memos as he asserted on Capitol Hill. The repercussions of that aren’t clear.

This is not the first time that Trump has seen a misleading bit of information on “Fox and Friends” and made the problem worse. In March, the show looked at data on the release of prisoners from Guantanamo, which Trump then used to attack President Barack Obama. One might have thought that Trump would have learned his lesson at that point.

But it appears that the opportunity to hammer his political opponents is often too urgent in his mind to ensure that he’s doing so accurately.


Philip Bump is a correspondent for The Post based in New York City.
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[MineralMan]

1. Truck Fump! That's all I can say about this.

[DBoon]

2. "Misleading fox news report" is redundant

Nt

[emulatorloo]

3. The Wonkette debunking of Trump's bs is really good too but w humor

"Trump Rage-Bitching About James Comey Again, Because Fox & Friends Told Him To"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029308409

[shraby]

4. He can accuse until the cows come home. Mueller is on the job and has all the memos.

trump can stick his head where the sun don't shine and let Mueller do his job.

[riversedge]

6. I so tire of trump lies.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Steve Bannon at his

assigned finest. Bannon and Kushner are doing their level best to avoid Federal Prison,knowing full well Donnie Dumpster will Pardon them.

[YCHDT]

7. Retroactively classifying docs is what the GOP tried to accused Clinton of too