Trump Turns Ire At Leakers Against Comey, Suggests There Is More To Come

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House, Friday, June 9, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House, Friday, June 9, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested that there are more revelations to come from fired FBI Director James Comey, and questioned their legality.

“I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible,” Trump tweeted early Sunday morning. “Totally illegal? Very ‘cowardly!'”

Trump made similar remarks on Friday in another early morning tweet where he labeled Comey a “leaker,” referring to Comey’s decision to share the contents of memos about his conversations with Trump to the press via a friend.

Comey revealed that decision during his testimony on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he painted Trump as a liar and testified that Trump tried to obtain a loyalty pledge from the former FBI head and pushed him to drop an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Trump on Friday said he was “100 percent” willing to match Comey and testify under oath to contradict Comey’s testimony.

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  1. What our Idiot President and his divorce lawyer do not understand is these tweets are attempts to intimidate a witness and add to both obstruction and abuse of power charges…keep 'em coming

  2. Lordy, the man just can’t control himself and, apparently, neither can anyone else. Stupid. He’s just plain stupid.

  3. Avatar for pine pine says:

    " To the extent they are interested in protecting the President from his critics, Republicans have settled on a defense for Donald Trump: He has no idea what he’s doing.

    That was, at least, how House Speaker Paul Ryan attempted to save Trump from himself. “The President’s new at this. He’s new at government,” Ryan said. “He’s not steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI and White Houses.”

  4. Ha, ha, ha he’s going down.
    Michael Deebren and Andrew Weissmann, top dogs at DOJ, left their jobs to go work for Mueller. Ugh, gads, it will take some time, but tump is going down.

  5. “Prevalent”??? Does he know what that means?

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