Dana Boente, the former acting attorney general and acting deputy attorney general who now serves as the FBI’s general counsel, spoke to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team several months ago, the Washington Post reported Tuesday night.
Boente told Mueller’s team about his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey about his interactions with Trump and also gave Mueller’s team handwritten notes, per the Washington Post. Boente’s notes and interview with Mueller’s team could help to corroborate Comey’s memos about his interactions with the President, though Boente did not witness the interactions directly.
Notes obtained by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow appear to show notes from Boente saying that Comey told him Trump spoke about the “cloud” of the Russia probe.
Exclusive: Handwritten notes we believe were written by Dana Boente on his talking with James Comey about the "cloud" of the Russia investigation: pic.twitter.com/7VkJtX2WHb
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 11, 2018
I wonder how we will get out of this mess… the public confidence in government that is necessary for a healthy democracy seems to be at a virtual zero. The international cooperation necessary for a healthy world is gone. Will any of the Trump supporters believe any of the evidence against Trump.
It gets harder and harder the longer he has the Bullshit Pulpit to keep braying “Fake News!”. In the midst of all the rest that’s going on, this is an extremely key piece of evidence in the case against him for obstruction.
We’ll get out of it by voting better people into government (read Democrats). Public confidence will return as justice is meted out to the thieves and liars who’ve taken over the reins these last years. Seeing Donald Trump in chains will do the public confidence a world of good. As for his supporters, they were idiots before he came along and they’ll still be idiots when he’s cooling his heels at Guantanamo Bay. They will marginalize themselves by their actions. And the adults can get back to the business of running the country. And needing a strong and measured America the rest of the world will breathe a sigh of relief.
Not to mention global confidence in American ability to do the right thing – after trying everything else.
Let’s just hope our country maintains an evidence-based bubble in the courts long enough to get through this.