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[Oersted]

Here is the clip, courtesy of NBC

https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/862713274676072448

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“I was going to fire Comey — my decision,” ..
“I was going to fire regardless of recommendation,” Trump said. “He made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation I was going to fire Comey.”

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-comey-nbc-explanation-contradicts-letter-385abac04b96

The president also reiterated his claim that he had been planning to fire Comey even before he received Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's recommendation to do so.

Holt's interview with the president came as Washington was still reeling over Trump's removal of Comey on Tuesday. And Trump's revelation that he would have fired Comey even without Rosenstein's input was not what his top officials had told reporters earlier this week.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders explained Thursday that she had spoken with the president on Tuesday night and didn't ask him directly if he'd already made the decision to terminate Comey before seeing the Rosenstein memo, which she had earlier told reporters was the reason Trump ousted the FBI chief.

But Trump, in his talk with Holt, also contradicted Vice President Mike Pence's account of how his boss came to his decision to fire Comey on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Rosenstein.

More here and on NBC

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ey-whether-he-was-under-investigation-n757821

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[johnsmith]

Full interview is supposed to be here, but it's not loading.

http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...h-lester-holt-at-the-white-house-941854787582

 

[Ollie Pooch]

Honestly - it should only be actual news when this guy doesn't lie about something.

 

[akira28]

his natural instinct to juke left when they expect him to juke right has served him well. but even then it can't get him out of this, can it? this guy has to have some sacred altar and a supernatural deal somewhere. Like Castro and the Virgin Mary.

 

[Oersted]

I love how much emphasis he puts on " my decision". You can tell its really important to him.

 

[Mr. Poolman]

Every time I see his signature I wonder if he can write at all.

 

[ezrarh]

Every time I see his signature I wonder if he can write at all.

We already know he can't read so goes to say he can't write either.

 

[base shagohod]

Fuckin a lmao. You can't make this shit up.

 

[riotous]

Every time I see his signature I wonder if he can write at all.

I'd love to see what a handwriting expert had to say about it.

My layman's opinion; serial killer.

 

[DietRob]

It's just impossible for him not to take full credit for something. Even at his detriment and in direct conflict of the narrative he had to make sure DAG didn't get any of the "credit"

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Trump's primate brain: "no one tells me what to do!"

 

[johnsmith]

"He's a showboat, he's grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil," Trump said of Comey in his wide-ranging interview with Holt. "You know that, I know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the FBI a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil, less than a year ago. It hasn't recovered from that."

the ironing

 

[thecosmicfly]

Are we up to 194D chess at this point?

 

[Ithil]

"He's a showboat, he's grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil,"

Captain Projection strikes again.

 

[Speevy]

It's me. All me. I made the decision.

"But people hate the decision."

It was more them. I just followed it. Wasn't me at all.

 

[VeryGooster]

Next week:

"I saw Comey getting two scoops of ice cream. That's an abuse of power. Only I get two scoops. I let him go. The best decision I think."

 

[John Rabbit]

ME I DID IT ME IT WAS ME I DID THE THING I'M A BIG BOY

 

[ForsakenLotus]

Hearing snippets of the conversation actually got me to yell at the TV. Especially the pathetic stuff about Michael Flynn.

Flynn was fired by Obama, then started working on behalf of an authoritarian country (paid by a Russian) and didn't disclose it. He's borderline a fucking traitor, maybe he actually is, and yet after Sally Yates tells Trump that Flynn is compromised Trump ignores it. He fired him 18 days later supposedly for lying to Pence, all the while he was still sitting in on intelligence briefing. And funny enough Flynn may never have even gotten appropriate clearance! And Trump continues to praise and support Flynn. But Comey had to be fired unceremoniously and dogged?

How the fuck can you blame Obama?

I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS!

 

[Binabik15]

Hearing snippets of the conversation actually got me to yell at the TV. Especially the pathetic stuff about Michael Flynn.

Flynn was fired by Obama, then started working on behalf of an authoritarian country (paid by a Russian) and didn't disclose it. He's borderline a fucking traitor, maybe he actually is, and yet after Sally Yates tells Trump that Flynn is compromised Trump ignores it. He fired him 18 days later supposedly for lying to Pence, all the while he was still sitting in on intelligence briefing. And funny enough Flynn may never have even gotten appropriate clearance! And Trump continues to praise and support Flynn. But Comey had to be fired unceremoniously and dogged?

How the fuck can you blame Obama?

I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS!

Obummer didn't warn them enough and he was, like, totally joking and should have taken his security clearance instead of just firing him!

 

[Jackpot]

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[Aikidoka]

incredible. This is the person some people look up to for being some sort of genius or having an supernatural knack for the human psyche.

 

[Jonnax]

So? The entire republican party is backing Trump.

He can say that Russia is better than the USA and that he emailed Putin top secret nuke info, and Paul Ryan will call it a brilliant move.

 

[gdt]

.

Uh.

Uh.

Uh guys

 

[hitme]

He's so good at playing chess so that he's playing against himself.

 

[Joeytj]

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Good lord. Trump is setting himself up for impeachment.

Spicey and Huckabee should've just stopped the interview immediately after that.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

Hearing snippets of the conversation actually got me to yell at the TV. Especially the pathetic stuff about Michael Flynn.

Flynn was fired by Obama, then started working on behalf of an authoritarian country (paid by a Russian) and didn't disclose it. He's borderline a fucking traitor, maybe he actually is, and yet after Sally Yates tells Trump that Flynn is compromised Trump ignores it. He fired him 18 days later supposedly for lying to Pence, all the while he was still sitting in on intelligence briefing. And funny enough Flynn may never have even gotten appropriate clearance! And Trump continues to praise and support Flynn. But Comey had to be fired unceremoniously and dogged?

How the fuck can you blame Obama?

I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS!

It's best for your mental health to just not watch him. EVERY decision he makes is based on how he thinks it will play in the media. If it goes badly, it was someone else's fault, even if shifting the blame seems preposterous.

 

[SeeThree]

Wow that was extra sad. The public at large has to turn on this stupidity. Its just too much.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Every time I see his signature I wonder if he can write at all.

It's not his signature, it's the results of his lie detector test.

 

[chefbags]

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Whoah lol dude turned third person mid interview.

Fucking ridiculous.

 

[epmode]

Is this Trump's "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH" moment?

 

[Spine_Ripper]

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So it wasn't until Tuesday that he made up his mind that the story about him is made up

Wut

 

[Jeffrey]

Did he give an excuse of why fire now vs in November?

 

[johnsmith]

Immediately after this he segues into bragging about his massive electoral college win. I'm not even kidding.

https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/862809180993757184

 

[Host Samurai]

Immediately after this he segues into bragging about his massive electoral college win. I'm not even kidding.

https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/862809180993757184

It's the new "biggest inauguration"

 

[RRockman]

Spicer's gonna self destruct

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Fucking save us intellegence community


you are the only ones who can beat this grandmast- i mean chessmaster

 

[alr1ght]

Read it in context and it's even worse.

the frail ego on this little man

 

[MarionCB]

I believe Trump here. He needed to fire Comey but he at least wanted some kind of pretext, no matter how flimsy.

I think the outline of what happened is this:

1. Trump thinks Comey is on his side because he helped so much with Hilary and basically got him elected. Trump decides to keep Comey and anyway, it would be unusual to fire a FBI director in any case. Besides the Dems seem to want it, so not good.

2. Between the inauguration and about April, Trump becomes increasingly worried that Comey isn't on his side and is actually investigating him. He still realises it's bad to fire the FBI director, well, at least until the internal investigation finishes.

3. Comey reveals publicly he is investigating Trump. Trump is extremely angry and wants to fire him but doesn't because it would look too bad to fire the guy investigating you.

4. Last Monday: Comey goes to Rosenstein and requests significantly more money and materials to ramp up the Russia investigation and get it done quickly. Rosenstein tells Trump and Sessions, Trump loses his shit and panics, and realises this is too desperate and he needs to fire Comey immediately before he uncovers everything. Somehow it's decided to get Rosenstein to write a memo with a pretext for the firing.

5. The Trump administration, incompetent at the best of times, explodes into chaos and utter incompetence trying to handle all of this. Everyone tells different stories and spins.

 

[makingmusic476]

The only thing consistent about his administration's comments on Comey is that "it had nothing to do with the Russia investigation".

 

[Version 3.0]

The only thing consistent about his administration's comments on Comey is that "it had nothing to do with the Russia investigation".

Trump himself is not even consistent on that in this interview. Nor has his staff been.

 

[Do Better]

Immediately after this he segues into bragging about his massive electoral college win. I'm not even kidding.

There's something wrong with this dude.

 

[HStallion]

 

[HvySky]

The only thing consistent about his administration's comments on Comey is that "it had nothing to do with the Russia investigation".

Dude more or less admits in this interview that he fired Comey because of the Russian investigation.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

The only thing consistent about his administration's comments on Comey is that "it had nothing to do with the Russia investigation".

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1372638

 

[makingmusic476]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1372638

Well fuck.

 

[Shaanyboi]

Motherfucker couldn't keep his story straight for more than, what, two days? What a piece of shit.