NYT: Trump Suggested Comey Jail Journos Who Publish Classified Information

President Donald Trump announces the approval of a permit Friday to build the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 24, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump announces the approval of a permit Friday to build the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 24, 2017, in Washi... President Donald Trump announces the approval of a permit Friday to build the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 24, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump suggested to ousted FBI Director James Comey that journalists who publish classified information should be jailed, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

The Times, citing unnamed associates of Comey’s describing memos he kept recording his meetings with Trump, reported the discussion came in a meeting on Feb. 14.

Alone in the Oval Office, the Times reported, Trump asked Comey to end the FBI’s investigation of Michael Flynn, who Trump had a day earlier fired as his National Security Adviser.

The Times also reported that “Mr. Trump began the discussion by condemning leaks to the news media, saying that Mr. Comey should consider putting reporters in prison for publishing classified information, according to one of Mr. Comey’s associates.”

Trump abruptly fired Comey last Tuesday. The White House put forward a variety of explanations for his ouster, but Trump himself said in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt that, “when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story.”

On Monday, the Washington Post reported that Trump himself had shared highly classified information with two top Russian officials during a closed-press meeting in the Oval Office the day after the Comey firing. 

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  1. He’ll be suggesting capital punishment before the week is out, on Twitter.
    Trump’s razor, applied in the sense of his boundless ego, implies that at a certain point Trump will remind people via Twitter that he controls the nukes.

  2. Hit the bricks, Donnie.

    Resign time.

  3. Avatar for theod theod says:

    Maybe he could be the guy he shoots on 5th Ave and the world discovers that nobody cares.

  4. It’s going to be real interesting to hear all the dreck that boils to the surface when President Kompromat b.y. Emoluments is out of the country

    I just hope the tire fire continues well into next summer. We could really use a Congress with 150 Republicans in total from both chambers

  5. I won’t believe Donnie’s gone until they pull the national flag of Ivankastan down from the White House flagpole.

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