Comey’s book, due Tuesday, has been released to some news outlets. The outtakes are fascinating. There are a lot already, but this snippet is just about perfect:
At one point, Comey describes Trump’s manner of speaking as “an oral jigsaw puzzle contest, with a shot clock.”
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Comey does not like trump. At all.
One more. Think we’re gonna need a thread for this but, this is gobsmaking. Republican party - and trump - in a nutshell.
Trump offered varying explanations to convince Comey it was not true. “I’m a germaphobe,” Trump told him in a follow-up call on Jan. 11, 2017, according to Comey’s account. “There’s no way I would let people pee on each other around me. No way.” Later, the president asked what could be done to “lift the cloud” because it was so painful for first lady Melania Trump.
Trump was accompanied at the Trump Tower session by his national security team, as well as by political aides Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, who were slated to become White House chief of staff and press secretary respectively. Trump asked only one question, Comey writes: “You found there was no impact on the result, right?”
James R. Clapper Jr., then the director of national intelligence, replied that the intelligence community did no such analysis.
Comey recalls being struck that neither Trump nor his advisers asked about the future Russian threat, nor how the United States might prepare to meet it. Rather, he writes, they focused on “how they could spin what we’d just told them.”
With Clapper and then-CIA Director John O. Brennan — both Obama appointees — still in the room, Priebus and other Trump aides strategized for political advantage, Comey writes. The Trump team decided they would emphasize that Russian interference had no impact on the vote — which, Clapper reminded them, the intelligence community had not determined.
Trump broke the standoff by turning to other topics, Comey writes, speaking in torrents, “like an oral jigsaw puzzle,” about the size of his inauguration crowd, his free media coverage and the viciousness of the campaign. He talked about the Clinton email investigation as in three phases, as if it were a television series: “Comey One,” “Comey Two” and “Comey Three.” Trump also tried to convince Comey that he had not mocked disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski at a campaign rally, and then turned to the detailed allegations of sexual assault against him.
“There was no way he groped that lady sitting next to him on the airplane, he insisted,” Comey writes. “And the idea that he grabbed a porn star and offered her money to come to his room was preposterous.”
But Bear Grylls taught us all that urine is sterile, right?
No professional likes Trump. Trump is the antithesis of professionalism.
Trump attracts sycophantic imbeciles and con men.
You just aptly described the modern Republican party.
Lying is David J. Dennison’s mother tongue.
My whole life has been a lie.
My pee is sterile because I boil it before drinking.
That seems like a strange thing to do before breaking out the tequila, but hey, whatever works.
Then maybe he shouldn’t have gotten Trump elected President.
I love that you posted this. I was just listening to a podcast today. The Dr. Drew Podcast, where he was talking with this writer named Ryan Holiday (I think he’s promoting his book Conspiracy). I get frustrated with Dr. Drew sometimes, but I still like listening to him. At any rate, Holiday describes Trump in terms of a superbug, where the media is over-prescribed antibiotics. The media is used to doing things a certain way, especially with regard to how shame works, and Holiday’s assertion is that Trump is simply impervious to shame.
And that’s why he is the bacteria that got through, and continues to survive no matter how much is revealed. Normal politicians would be susceptible. He is not.
So I think the germaphobe thing is funny.
-xtien
Who are they trying to convince? Seems pretty much like you’re already on one side of it or the other. Besides, do Trump supporters even watch ABC?
Actually fell out of my chair.
Hilarious that David J. Dennison claimed to Comey that he was worried the pee tape story would bother Melania. Like he gives a flying fuck about her feelings. Once again, as always, it’s all about him.
Tomorrow’s headline:
So taxpayer money spent on Pruitt’s Cartel-grade security detail, Trump’s weekly golf outings, and using intelligence agency assets to work on pee tapes. So glad Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility.
“Can you imagine me with hookers?”, prez asked.
Why yes. You’ve been paying for it your entire life. And then paying them off to shut them up. It would have been much cheaper for Mr. Dennison to just stick to hookers.
Using the “Lyin’ Comey” nickname is really lowering their credibility even further.