James Comey didn’t make secret recordings of his conversations with Donald Trump, but he did keep copious notes.
For some reason he thought the new POTUS might lie about what was said later…
So as part of their campaign to protect the President, House Republicans have badgered the FBI and the Department of Justice to release the classified memos to them for almost a year — a strategy that seems to have blown up in their face!
Photos: Trump’s Many Scandals EXPLAINED!
Just hours after finally receiving the (slightly) redacted documents, they leaked them to the public late Thursday night — and they are not a good look for Trump!
First, they confirm Trump’s obsession with “the pee tape” — the most salacious part of the Steele Dossier which claims the Russians have video evidence from hotel surveillance cameras of Trump (when he was in Moscow for the 2013 Miss Universe pageant) watching hookers pee on a bed once slept in by Barack Obama.
But they get worse. Check out the ickiest memo moments (below):
1. Not Prostitutes Per Se
Trump has an odd, specific defense upon first being briefed on the dossier’s hooker claims. Comey wrote:
“He interjected, ‘there were no prostitutes; there were never prostitutes.'”
What? Not “that never happened” or “that’s crazy”? That’s the only part that tripped him up?
It’s kind of like when someone is called an “incompetent, small-fingered, unfaithful con man” and their response is, “I’m not small-fingered!”
2. There Might Have Been Prostitutes
Comey wrote just a month later that Trump said Vladimir Putin did talk to him about prostitutes:
“The President said ‘the hookers thing’ is nonsense but that Putin had told him ├óΓé¼╦£we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world.’ He did not say when Putin had told him this and I don’t recall [REDACTED].”
Wait, WTF?? When did he tell him that? Maybe in Moscow 2013?
Trump waffles back and forth in public about how much one-on-one time he had gotten with the Russian president — he knew him, he didn’t know him — but they knew each other well enough to talk hookers??
3. Trump Flat Out LIED
Trump took his defense one step further when he told Comey he “hadn’t stayed overnight in Russia during the Miss Universe trip” at all.
But that’s totally false. Trump’s bodyguard Keith Schiller, presumably not knowing Trump would later lie about that part (because why would he?), has already testified under oath that they did stay overnight at the hotel.
This reminds us of when your mom thought she smelled weed on you but then in an effort to distance yourself even more from it you said, “what’s ‘weed’?”
We’re still on team “there is a pee tape.” It’s just too crazy to make up in such a sensitive investigation!
What do YOU think??
[Image via ABC News.]