Russia foreign minister denies talking to Trump about Comey

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



By Miranda Green, CNN
Updated 12:48 PM ET, Sat May 20, 2017

Washington (CNN)Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denies discussing the firing of former FBI Director James Comey with President Donald Trump during his White House visit earlier this month.

"We did not touch this subject," Lavrov told reporters at a news conference Saturday in Cyprus, Russia's state-run TASS news agency reported. Lavrov met with Trump at the White House on May 10, the day after the President fired Comey. The meeting raised eyebrows and faced additional public scrutiny when news broke that Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, whom current and former US intelligence officials say is a top Russian spy and recruiter of spies (a notion Russian officials have dismissed), also attended.

TASS posted pictures showing the trio together in the Oval Office, angering the White House and adding strange and ironic optics to questions swirling around the White House over Comey's firing and the investigations into allegations of questionable ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

No US media were invited to the meeting, which Russian President Vladimir Putin requested when he spoke with Trump earlier this month, but a TASS photographer was in the room for at least part of it.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/20/politics/russian-foreign-minister-denies-talking-comey/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Implausible deniability

Excluding US media is ridiculous. It's like outsourcing our news outlets
in his war on the public's right to know

[dalton99a]

2. I always trust the Russian Foreign Minister

[rurallib]

7. he's every bit as trustworthy as the current president

[dalton99a]

10. They work for the same boss

[shraby]

3. In what alternate universe should I believe the Russians? They are sooo noted for telling

the truth.
They lie about the most obvious things, like Chernobyl for instance.

[beastie boy]

4. But when asked if Trump talked to him about Comey, or whether Trump touched the subject

all by himself, Lavrov replied: "No comment".

[turbinetree]

5. That's the ticket let's believe a fucking spy, not today and not tomorrow FU.

And then he has the audacity and says it with a straight face, in the country that launders money for the oligarchies, like himself, while his country GDP is shit.

And just think he's part of crime syndicate that goes around and off's and throws people out of buildings, and poisons them, attacks people and throw them in jail, murders reporters and bans protesting, and your crime family likes to meddle in elections, you have fucked up track record there Lavrov, you hurt human beings.

Yeah your really not credible there Lavrov------------go away

I gotta bridge there Lavrov you wanna buy it?

FU

[sandensea]

6. "You are kidding!"

Must be Russian for "of course I knew, you silly American journalist. I told him to do it!"

[Honeycombe8]

8. And he wouldn't lie.

[Cryptoad]

9. Well we know that those Russian Corporate Socialist ,,,,,

Never lie,,,,,,,,, Fake news

[LisaL]

11. Lavrov denies it? You are kidding!

[riversedge]

12. says it was Putin that requested on U.S. media were to be present.....

I did not know that (don't know what to believe anymore).




http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/20/politics/russian-foreign-minister-denies-talking-comey/

....No US media were invited to the meeting, which Russian President Vladimir Putin requested when he spoke with Trump earlier this month, but a TASS photographer was in the room for at least part of it.


The meeting has proven a source of continued controversy: The New York Times reported Friday that Trump had called Comey a "nut job" when he spoke with the two Russian officials. The White House did not deny the claim.

CNN's Dan Merica contributed to the report

[Sugar Smack]

13. He probably didn't get a chance to say anything b/c trump was running his mouth.

And then they couldn't stop laughing in his face long enough to discuss ANYTHING. One scenario, anyway.