Trumps defense against Comey has fallen into a predictable pattern: Make a baseless accusation
dah--the Con man is so predictable!
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Trump’s defense against Comey has fallen into a predictable pattern: Make a baseless accusation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/12/trumps-defense-against-comey-has-fallen-into-a-predictable-pattern-make-a-baseless-accusation/?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.3da596f6c594
By Amber Phillips June 12 at 8:20 AM
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Trump targets Comey on Twitter, senators weigh in
President Trump launched fresh accusations against former FBI director James B. Comey on Twitter June 11 while senators of both parties reacted to the feud. (Video: Bastien Inzaurralde/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
We know that James B. Comey is a leaker. It's doubtful that he's a criminal; legal experts have said that even though the former FBI director shared his memos of conversations with President Trump with the media, if the information wasn't classified, that probably wasn't a crime.
Which could help explain why on Sunday, Trump upped the ante by tweeting this:
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Trump just basically accused the FBI director he fired of leaking classified information, days after Comey testified under oath to Congress that the president might have interfered in an FBI investigation.
In hindsight, this tweet probably shouldn't have been surprising: When the president feels threatened, his go-to move is to accuse his opponent of doing something illegal and offer no evidence to back it up. Conspiracy theorists can and will pick this up and run with it, people can choose to believe which narrative they want, and the waters are sufficiently muddied.
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Trump has followed this playbook before. And if you measure victory by distraction, it has worked beautifully for him.
After Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledged that he did not disclose during his confirmation proceedings that he met with Russian officials during the campaign, Sessions had to recuse himself from overseeing the FBI's Russia investigation.
That weekend, Trump tweeted this:
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Months later, there is still no evidence of this. Congress has launched no investigation of it. And the Trump-friendly chairman of the House Intelligence Committee had to recuse himself from that panel's Russia investigation after he tried to give the president something to hang onto..................................
