Sh-t about to get real. Thump calling Comey a liar

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WASHINGTON — President Trump does not accept the contention of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, that Mr. Trump falsely claimed that President Barack Obama had him wiretapped, a White House spokeswoman said on Monday.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that Mr. Comey had asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject Mr. Trump’s assertions. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is untrue and must be corrected, but the department has not released any such statement.

A White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was asked early Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” whether Mr. Trump accepted Mr. Comey’s contention. “I don’t think he does,” she said.

“I think he firmly believes that this is a story line that has been reported pretty widely by quite a few outlets,” Ms. Sanders said. She went on to cite several news reports about the F.B.I.’s investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/trump-rejects-comeys-assertion-that-wiretapping-claim-is-false-spokeswoman-says.html?_r=0

[dalton99a]

1. They don't have a choice

[marybourg]

2. Who is Josh Marshall? nt

[lillypaddle]

8. His site, and it's a good one:

talkingpointsmemo.com

[SticksnStones]

9. Talking Points Memo founder

[Renew Deal]

10. Long time left leaning serious journalist

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/josh-m

[targetpractice]

11. Journalist and founder of talkingpointsmemo.com

Progressive and he started a blog during the 2000 recount that grew to the media site it is today.

[Blue_Adept]

12. runs Talking Points Memo

Pretty much someone whose main editorials should be on your daily reading list of evenhanded non-pants-on-fire people to read.

[vlyons]

14. Josh Marshall is an award winning liberal blogger, who

founded Talking Points Memo

http://wwwtalkingpointsmemo.com

[kentuck]

15. One of the best journalists in DC.

He does his work.

[randome]

22. He's the bomb.

DU and TPM are the only news sources I need.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[safeinOhio]

3. Bite the hand that

got him elected.

[dalton99a]

7. Bingo.

[BeckyDem]

4. What's Trump going to do next, fire Comey?

[nolabels]

25. That other guy who recused himself for lying is supposed to do that

This is getting kind of convoluted

[BeckyDem]

26. You're right!

Bizarre Trump world, it gets worse each week.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Because rejecting the FBI worked out so well for Nixon

[Renew Deal]

6. Has Comey made a denial?

I haven't seen anything other than the comment that he would deny it through the justice department.

[BeckyDem]

13. Trump Is Said to Reject Comey Assertion That Wiretapping Claim Is False

WASHINGTON — President Trump does not accept the contention of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, that Mr. Trump falsely claimed that President Barack Obama had him wiretapped, a White House spokeswoman said on Monday.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that Mr. Comey had asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject Mr. Trump’s assertions. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is untrue and must be corrected, but the department has not released any such statement.

A White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was asked early Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America” whether Mr. Trump accepted Mr. Comey’s contention. “I don’t think he does,” she said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/trump-rejects-comeys-assertion-that-wiretapping-claim-is-false-spokeswoman-says.html?_r=0

[exboyfil]

16. Well we knew that

Something we can all agree upon.

If Comey still had an ounce of integrity left, he would submit his resignation immediately and take his historical place among the immortals like Franz von Papen.

[Zoonart]

17. Bring it, Idiots!

[vlyons]

18. WH coming unhinged

Will little Jeffy Sessions back Comey, Trump, or stay quietly mum? I'm thinking that we're getting very very close to acting on the 25th Amendment.

[n2doc]

19. Wonder if Comey is feeling any regrets now about helping tRump win? n/t

[Fla Dem]

43. Probably, but I don't think he had a choice. Conspiracy Theory Time, but the Russkies probably

had something on him he didn't want leaked. I think they have a dossier on every single person of influence in the government. When you reach those heights, there is always "something" in your past you'd like to keep under wraps. If it's minor and you're basically a good person, you give them the middle finger. But if you've been embroiled in some nefarious back room dealings, and/or other unseemly activities, you may just knuckle under to avoid disclosure.

[Chipper Chat]

20. The idea of Barack Hussein Obama on the sly (and with Malia's secret help)

sneaking into Trump Tower and bugging Dear Leader's bedroom is beyond ANYONE's imagination

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Wiretaps are done remotely, not with physical bugs.

So, no need to disguise ones self as the cable guy or something to get into the premises; just present a wiretap warrant to the phone company.

[Chipper Chat]

28. Tell that to Bozo Trump.

I'm just reading his personal imagination.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Yeah, he probably thinks Obama himself snuck in

disguised as a dishwasher repairman or the guy that refreshes the gilt paint on all the furniture, and unscrewed the receiver section of an old-style handset and stuck a microphone bug in there like in a Get Smart episode from the '60s.

[JHB]

33. "I'm here to repair your phones. Which need repairing."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. GMTA.

[suffragette]

40. Doubly interesting since James O'Keefe actually tried that on a Senator. And Trump has given $$

to O'Keefe.

[Fla Dem]

45. Stephen King's tweet was the inspiration..................

Link to tweet

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. LOL! I love Stephen King.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Trump calls a lot of people a lot of things.

Nothing seems to sway his core supporters.

[randome]

23. "I don't think he does." His spokespeople can't even speak with him because he's so stupid.

So they all go off and make up their own interpretations of everything.

The Doltish One doesn't consult with Congress or his own aides, everyone has to guess what he's thinking. Bizarre.
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[Johnny2X2X]

24. Inventing reality

So Trump told a whopper, no instead of just ignoring the issue or walking it back, it's the job of those around Trump to invent reality to fit into Trump's lie. It's what you get with dictators, he cannot admit he was full of shit.

And this is where shit gets dangerous, because they're bound to fabricate evidence to prove Trump's not a liar.

[Ms. Toad]

30. We have a Kellyanne wannabe -

“I think he firmly believes that this is a story line that has been reported pretty widely by quite a few outlets

Seriously? You allege the president violated the law, not becasue you actually believe it - but because:

You believe that the story has has been reported?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

31. Joe says the earth if flat. I believe Joe says the earth is flat and likely believes it too.

[Orangepeel]

32. Worse

You believe it because it has been reported that you said it

[gratuitous]

36. The Cokie Roberts principle

If something is "out there," no matter how specious it is or how dubious the provenance of the sources, Cokie Roberts has decreed that whatever the news tidbit is, it must be discussed with all seriousness and gravity as if it were Moses holding the tablets at the foot of Mt. Sinai.

I think this is just another stop on the continuum of Very Serious Things. Now if the President "believes" that something is "reported pretty widely" and it involves "quite a few outlets," then it becomes an actual thing. I guess the next point will be when the President believes something has been reported somewhere it becomes a part of reality. We'll be needing investigations of Hillary Clinton and the space alien baby pretty soon.

Caligula much?

[Ms. Toad]

48. We're already there.

He's apparently now saying because suggestions of wiretapping are out there, it actually happened.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Prob means some Trump gang crim activity leaks real & they know it. Prob other side of connex tapped

What this probably at root means is that the Trump gang (tRump, Priebus, McConnel, Cohen, Page, et al) know that some of the leaked info about criminal activity (collusion with Russians, quid pro quo, Rosneft shares deal, loans, etc.) is real.

Hence they are sure their phones have been tapped, but it could just as easily be the other side of the connection that was tapped.

[lark]

37. Come on, Comey, time to get real.

You've been the GOP's water boy in helping to sway the election DJT's way, and you seemed perfectly OK with that. Not so great when the pussy the orange assface is grabbing is yours, is it? You know damn well you would never approve of the illegal action of wiretapping 45 unless there was proof he was engaging with foreign agents or had really good reason to believe he himself was acting as a foreign agent. How do you like it when the lies are about you, not so cute now is it? Maybe it's time for you to tell the truth about what you know instead of keeping it hidden to protect him? Hmmm???

[mac56]

38. He sure as hell didn't mind Comey's lies just before the election.

[ffr]

39. Putin Winning. And I blame our little man syndrome friends in red states.

THANKS A LOT!

[More_Cowbell]

41. It makes me CRAZY when she says other outlets are reporting this

She's been told again and again that only Breitbart and that radio guy reported Trump's phones were tapped, but she keeps on smugly insisting that the BBC and the NYT said it too. I just want some news person to cut her off and say "STOP LYING ABOUT THIS."

Sorry for the yelling. I am so incensed over her.

[SDJay]

42. If The Orange Dumbass

is willing to turn on Comey publicly after (a) what Comey did for him and (b) given what the FBI could likely do to this clown, it makes me wonder if Drumpf is also willing to turn on Russia publicly. Is he so delusional, so dug in on the belief that he's smarter than everyone else, that he would think he could 'win' with Pooty by throwing a tantrum in his direction?

If I had to bet, I would go with that he does think that.

Sooner or later, this asshole is going to wind up on his own tiny island surrounded by circling sharks with a rising tide.

[world wide wally]

44. Somebody call the marriage counselor quick!

[LisaM]

47. I can't even say the name Comey in my regular voice.

He broke my heart, and whatever happens to this whole gang of manipulators and liars can't be too well deserved.

[Maru Kitteh]

49. K&R

[anglesphere]

50. He's losing it