Trump Balks At Comey Memos: ‘Illegal Act’ Prompted Special Counsel Probe

WASHINGTON, USA - JUNE 08: Former FBI Director James Comey testifies during a US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, United States on June 08, 2017. (Photo by Samuel Corum/A... WASHINGTON, USA - JUNE 08: Former FBI Director James Comey testifies during a US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, United States on June 08, 2017. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump on Friday night tried to use the release of former FBI James Comey’s memos and the revelation that they contained classified information to question special counsel Robert Mueller’s jurisdiction over the Russia investigation.

Trump has been using the memos released this week to cast doubt on the Russia probe. In tweets Friday morning, Trump said that the memos showed that there was “NO COLLUSION and NO OBSTRUCTION” and called the Russia investigation a “witch hunt,” as he often does.

The President has been particularly sensitive about the investigation since the FBI raided the home and office of his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. The raid reportedly made Trump more hesitant to sit with Mueller’s team for an interview and caused him to consider firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, though Trump has apparently backed off his urge to oust Rosenstein.

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  1. Why so many question marks?
    Is he really seeking answers?
    Does he even know what his point is?
    Can someone please teach the dotard how to spell “counsel”?

    When is he leaving office?

  2. If it’s Saturday, it’s meet the tweet.

  3. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Except he didn’t, and Fox News keeps making you look dumb, cause your repeat their baseless defenses of you.

  4. The sound of a drowning dotard coming up for air for (sadly) not quite the last time.

  5. Avatar for sfaw sfaw says:

    Tick tock, motherfucker.

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