Trump lawyer: NBC interview with Comey firing comments was edited

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Hill

President Trump's lawyer is claiming that NBC misleadingly edited the 2017 interview in which President Trump said he was thinking about "this Russia thing" when he fired former FBI director James Comey.

Jay Sekulow on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time" late Wednesday urged viewers to review the entire NBC transcript, saying it "supports the president."

"You know that when there are interviews, there are edits and there is a longer transcript, and I will just tell you without disclosing any detail that when you review the entire transcript, it is very clear as to what happened," Sekulow said.

Trump during the May 2017 interview with Lester Holt said he was considering Comey's involvement in "this Russia thing" when he fired him.

"I was going to fire Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it," Trump told Holt. "And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story." Sekulow added that Trump's legal team has "addressed ... on multiple occasions" their issues with the NBC interview transcript in conversations with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/407552-trump-lawyer-nbc-interview-with-comey-firing-comments-was-edited

[Moostache]

1. Produce evidence of this or STFU Donnie (nt)

[Botany]

2. So it was the transcript that made Trump say live on video tape ....

".... you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story."


BTW Jay Sekulow is a piece of shit who got people to pressure people going
through tough times to give more money because that is what Jesus would
have wanted.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/27/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-donations

Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow that month approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses.


Telemarketers for the nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case), were instructed in contracts signed by Sekulow to urge people who pleaded poverty or said they were out of work to dig deep for a “sacrificial gift”.

“I can certainly understand how that would make it difficult for you to share a gift like that right now,” they told retirees who said they were on fixed incomes and had “no extra money” – before asking if they could spare “even $20 within the next three weeks”.

[Racerdog1]

3. No editing needed

Donnie dumb fuck said enough to sink his sorry ass. Orange tub of shit.

[Historic NY]

4. Bullshit....

there is a long version of the entire interview plus transcripts. If this is so let them prove it.

This Russa thing.

[Major Nikon]

5. As usual, Trump is full of shit

https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/transcript-donald-trump-nbc-news/

[FakeNoose]

6. The orange treason weasel

... is indeed full of shit! Thanks for this link.

[Orsino]

9. As usual, Trump doesn't have the smarts or attention span to come up with his own bullshit. n/t

[gibraltar72]

7. It is incredibly hard to discern his intent from those comments.

Once again he was cut off just before he was going to make positive statements. Funny how often that happens to him.

[pnwmom]

8. What kind of story doesn't include a NBC/Holt response?

[salin]

10. Based on this and Rude-y's tv performance - a requirement of the POTUS personal lawyer

Feed the POTUS's delusions.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

11. Donnie Two Scoops also is now saying it's not his voice on the Access Hollywood tape,

even though he admitted it and apologized for the comments on television during his campaign.

"I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize." (Evangelicals: "That's good enough for us!&quot

But then there's this, from Billie Bush, who was there:

As Stephen Colbert told Dubya to his face at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, "Facts have a well-know liberal basis."

[Racerdog1]

12. Jay Sucksalot

As disgusting as the piece of shit he represents.

[Jopin Klobe]

13. "I will just tell you without disclosing any detail ...

... that when you review the entire transcript, it is very clear as to what happened,"

... no actual, intelligent lawyer says/does this ...

... unless he/she can't point to the problem (which doesn't exist) ...

[DoctorJoJo]

14. In Other Words, Mr. Suckulow, Truth Isn't Truth!!

[Dave Starsky]

15. Ah, the old, haggard "taken out of context" dodge...

That the Republicans fall back on so well.

"I didn't say that! My remarks were edited. They were taken out of context!"

I look forward to the day when some media talking head asks this natural follow-up question:

"What context were these quite clear remarks intended to be taken in?"

[JonLP24]

16. I will tell you without disclosing any detail

[jcgoldie]

17. "Don't believe what you see and hear"

[TomVilmer]

18. The full show, but...

https://archive.org/details/KNTV_20170512_003000_NBC_Nightly_News_With_Lester_Holt/start/840/end/900
- the FULL interview without cuts seems to be 31 minutes long, and I have not found the rest online in any form. But the sentence Trump now is trying to run away from, looks very much like one full sentence. Well, a Trump sentence.