Trump lawyers call Comey 'Machiavellian' in note to Mueller

[demmiblue]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack on former FBI Director James Comey in a confidential memo last year to the special counsel, casting him as “Machiavellian,” dishonest and “unbounded by law and regulation” as they sought to undermine the credibility of a law enforcement leader they see as a critical witness against the president.

The letter, obtained by The Associated Press, provides a window into the formation of a legal strategy currently used by Trump’s lawyers as they seek to pit the president’s word against that of the former FBI director. Comey’s firing in May 2017 helped set in motion the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, and one-on-one conversations with Trump that Comey documented in a series of memos helped form the basis of Mueller’s inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice.

Mueller is looking broadly into Russia’s meddling in the U.S. election and its contacts with people in Trump’s campaign.

The June 27, 2017, letter was written by Marc Kasowitz, then the president’s lead lawyer, as Mueller and his team were in the early stages of their investigation into Trump associates and as they had begun examining whether the president, by firing Comey, had sought to stymie an FBI investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. The White House initially pointed as justification for the firing to a Justice Department memo that faulted Comey for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, though Trump later said that “this Russia thing” was on his mind when he made the move.

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[katmondoo]

1. They looked in the mirror and saw themselves

What Trumpers always do

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Is that a strategy, calling former FBI chief bad names to another former FBI chief?

Is it a NYC strategy? Does it work?

[MBS]

6. good question.

[Honeycombe8]

3. They sure are fixated on Comey. He must be that damaging to them.

Interesting. I guess they're really worried about those memos he did about his meetings w/Trump, where Trump asks for his loyalty & to let the Flynn investigation go. That evidence must be very damaging to Trump. I mean, really damaging.

[MBS]

8. + 100. n/t

[sakabatou]

4. Projection

[sandensea]

5. Machiavelli 101:

Accuse your opponent of your very own weaknesses and wrongdoing.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Rump is lying, and trying to save his ass from all of the ...

illegal shit's he's done. W/ someone's mouth like he's got, I wouldn't put it past him anymore that he did, in fact, sanction something to happen w/ the 2016 elections, and not just one thing.

Why else is he constantly harping on and on and on and on and on and on?

Something is up...and stinks to high heaven.

And the repugs know it too...

[Jim__]

9. "... they seek to pit the president's word against that of the former FBI director."

The president's word? The president has absolutely no credibility. If they're depending on the president's word, they've already lost.

[Honeycombe8]

13. I was going to say just that.

No wonder the Trump team is fixating on Comey.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Testimony under Oath will

bury Trump and likely his Lawyers so deep they will have to pump daylight into their holes.

[Botany]

11. Defense Lawyer 101 .... Do not talk bad about a good friend of the opposing counsel

[Honeycombe8]

14. Hey, Botany! No fair pulling out the best defense lawyer in the world to prove a point!

I loves me some Perry Mason! I catch it on MeTV station. It's still good, after all these years.

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. What bitter bitter irony

Comey, so afraid of being accused of not being fair to his homeboys in the Republican party, kept the Russian threat as hushed as he could, but made sure that when any tiny new bit of information came across his desk about Hillary's emails, whether it was actually substantial or not, he made sure to tip off the House Rethugs so they could blow it up. All with the belief, like everyone else, that Hillary was going to win anyways.

Now, his party's new POTUS insults, and smears him in evey vile way possible, while his homeboys just silently watch.

This was a man so afraid of being percieved badly by either party, and the American public at large, before the election, finds himself now despised by all three groups.

[GoCubsGo]

16. Looks like somebody learned a new word.

Must have one of those "vocabulary word of the day" calendars.

[lastlib]

17. FatRump probly doesn't know what the word really means!

His supporters certainly don't.

The other possibility is that he heard someone on Fox & Fiends use it. (I don't think he would read a "word of the day" calendar....)

[Takket]

19. He probably thinks it is a shape of pasta

[GoCubsGo]

20. Yeah. He probably did hear it on Fox.

I doubt whoever used it knows what it means, either.

[Marie Marie]

18. Anybody else wonder what Mueller actually thinks of all of this?

The more corruption that he is surely uncovering, the more I wonder about Mueller's thoughts as he watches this clown shoot off his mouth. My hope is that @1 in his thoughts is: Keep talking while you can because you are going down!!