In the last few days, two things have had Donald Trump, aka Putin’s puppet so engaged that he is apparently beside himself and constantly spewing rage. The first is the FBI raids on his personal shyster, bag man and strong-arm man, Michael Cohen. And the second is the contents of James Comey’s new book, A Higher Loyalty.
President Donald Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey last May might prove to have been one of the most consequential of his presidency. It certainly has given him a powerful enemy, one whose new book, "A Higher Loyalty," contains explosive accusations about the current White House occupant.
Given that Comey has an obvious bias against the man who terminated him, it is fair to say that the claims in the book should be taken with a grain of salt. Of course, considering that Trump himself lies so often that uttered more than 2,000 falsehoods during the first 355 days of his presidency, it’s hardly like the president has the credibility to persuasively rebut anything that Comey has written.
Here are some highlights.
1. Comey continues the legend of the "pee tape"
As The Washington Post reports:
According to Comey’s account in a new memoir, Trump “strongly denied the allegations, asking — rhetorically, I assumed — whether he seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes. He then began discussing cases where women had accused him of sexual assault, a subject I had not raised. He mentioned a number of women, and seemed to have memorized their allegations.”
The January 2017 conversation at Trump Tower in Manhattan “teetered toward disaster” — until “I pulled the tool from my bag: ‘We are not investigating you, sir.’ That seemed to quiet him,” Comey writes.
Trump did not stay quiet for long. Comey describes Trump as having been obsessed with the portion dealing with prostitutes in the infamous dossier compiled by British former intelligence officer Christopher Steele, raising it at least four times with the FBI director. The document claimed that Trump had watched the prostitutes urinate on themselves in the same Moscow suite that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama had stayed in “as a way of soiling the bed,” Comey writes.
Comey writes that Trump asked him to have the FBI investigate the allegations to prove they were not true, and offered varying explanations to convince him why. “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.”
Comey also noted that the president’s explanation as to why this couldn’t have happened — namely that he had only stayed in the hotel room in question in order to change his clothes — didn’t actually make sense.
"I decided not to tell him that the activity alleged did not seem to require either an overnight stay or even being in proximity to the participants. In fact, though I didn’t know for sure, I imagined the presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow was large enough for a germaphobe to be at a safe distance from the activity," Comey wrote in his book…
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I shared only the first of six. Click through for the other five. In my opinion, all five are more interesting than the first.
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
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I realize that this piece is reprinted from Salon, not original to AlterNet, but frankly, it shocked me that anyone writing for either would use the “phrase, continues the LEGEND of the ‘pee tape.'” Is Rosza another one questioning the accuracy of the “Steele dossier”? Here’s aother of my patented rhetorical questions – how can we ever expect anyone in his base to ever believe us when we ourselves cannot even decide who to trust?
You are right that the other points are at least as interesting, maybe more interesting. But we can get so focused on Trump that we forget that the slander of people of integrity is a by-product of investigating him. That bothers me. I think I have integrity, and I believe that Mueller, Comey and Steele have it also. Integrity doesn’t, thank God, mean never making mistakes, and too many people are jumping on mistakes, particularly in Comey’s case, to undermine his integrity. I have been slandered (I suppose technically not, since I can’t point to any financial loss, but in the false-rumors-publicly spread sense), and I assure you it is not fun. I hate it when I see that happening to someone else.
Personally, and to me in my honest opinion, I hope that *Путинская шлюха get’s everything he deserves from this investigation. I can think of no one better for prison time, and his little cronies too. *putin’s whore
Never mind the Pee Tape – I’m waiting for what the raid on Cohen’s office reveals.
Me too!
If the pee-pee incident occurred, you can bet your sweet ass that Putin that has on tape.
Rosza, the author of this Alternet piece, seems to belong to the category “People who can’t forgive Comey for costing Clinton the election”. His book review, if we can call it that, is too full of insinuations (‘Given that Comey has an obvious bias’, ‘Comey continues the legend of the “pee tape”‘, ‘ [Comey] even implying that he acted as he did’…) to think otherwise. The book review in the NYT (James Comey Has a Story to Tell. It’s Very Persuasive.) does far more justice to Comey for those who have forgiven him Clinton’s loss or who never put it all down to him in the first place, and portray him as a man of integrity who is well aware of his personal shortcomings.
But both articles come to the same conclusion: Whatever you personally think of Comey, his side of the story is far more believable than that of Drumpf, the man whom his own lawyers didn’t allow to be alone in an interview with Mueller, afraid he’d perjure himself within minutes.
Drumpf has already shown his “presidential approach” to Comey’s book coming out; he must be blowing his top now Comey spoke on these issues thoughtfully, but in less “eloquent” terms, that is statements even Drumpf would understand, in the ABC 20/20 interview. The question is now: Will anyone be near enough and courageous enough to get his phone away from Drumpf before he gives Mueller/FBI even more work?
Believe anything, anything, anything that tDump claims? Right, that’s the ticket, not with your brain! I watched the Comey interview last night, much of it coming in way below the advertised hype. But, at the very end, Comey was asked whether, or not, he believed tDump is fit to be president….”No.” “No,” on moral grounds!!
Comey had, earlier, liked tDump to Mafioso, whom Comey had gotten to know about as a prosecutor in NYC. tDump had tried to make everything about himself (DUH!) as in acting like he was the head of a mob “family.”
So, tDump has been tweeting like crazy, about Comey: Well, one can easily tell who dump feels most threatened by, at ny given moment, by looking at his tweets.
Thanks all. Speedy hugs.
Does it surprise anyone that Comey has a tender view towards Obama? I know, that is a rhetorical question around here. Obama was a class act. I doubt the ogre’s base would recognise that though.
Drumpf to a mob boss? That is a no brainer. Drumpf has the vendetta aspect down pat!
Drumpf’s physical appearance? The ladies are not impresses either, especially by those tiny hands that are more like an octopus’s creepy little feelers.
The Liar-in-Chief is captain CHAOS . . . totally unbelievable!
There’s that vendetta again! #6 shows nothing but projection! Back at you Drumpf . . . as a piece of projection it is probably the only time in his life that he was right!