Trump's lawyer to file complaint against Comey over memos

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's outside attorney plans to file a complaint against former FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department Inspector General and the Senate judiciary committee, two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.

The complaint will focus on Comey's testimony that he gave a friend the content of memos about his conversations with Trump and asked the friend to then give that information to a reporter. Comey said Friday that he gave the friend -- later identified as Daniel Richman, a longtime Comey confidante and Columbia University professor -- the information after Trump tweeted that he may have tapes of his conversations with the fired FBI director.

"My judgment was I needed to get that out into the public square. So I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter," Comes said Thursday.

It is unclear when Trump's attorney, Marc Kasowitz, will file the complaints, but the source said they are actively exploring their options.


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[rzemanfl]

1. BFD. Yawn. n/t

[Raven]

2. Fabulous news! This will be a great way

to get Trump into depositions under oath.

[onenote]

9. No it won't

The issue before the DOJ IG of a complaint actually gets filed is whether Comey acted improperly in disclosing the memo even if he was no longer FBI Director at the time.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Let's see if they even try to waste the court's time doing that

If anything, the "complaint" will probably be Orly Taitz-like, full of errors and suppositions.

[yellerpup]

4. Of course he would.

That is how he always responds and he usually wins by keeping it in court with counter-suits until the other party is broke.

[Raven]

5. In this case I think Comey will

have a lot of high powered lawyers working for him for free.

[yellerpup]

7. I never considered that!

I hope so.

[Renew Deal]

6. Typically Trump doesn't follow through on these threats

But I hope he goes for it.

[mulsh]

8. Hear that? it's the sound of hundreds of good attorneys offering services to Comey pro bono.

The kind of attorneys who don't submit letter to the public or briefs with spelling and punctuation errors.

I'm sure Trumps real estate and bankruptcy scam lawyer is an intimidating figure in the parts of the east coast legal landscape. He probably knows the best laws and stuff.

[geek tragedy]

10. Tr*mp thinks he can bully Comey like he did to contractors and vendors nt

[Lulu KC]

11. Doesn't he mean a comlpaint? n/t

[Xipe Totec]

12. I think the penalty for disclosing non-classified info is a written reprimand

And possible suspension without pay.

Which, at this point, is moot.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Why would there be any penalty at all if it's not classified?

"Non-classified" includes Sean Spicer saying "I talked to the president this morning". Disclosing some types of information might put you in the bad books of a senior, but that wouldn't mean they could suspend you, with or without pay.

[SonofDonald]

13. trumpys nitwit lawyer.

On the RMS last night she brought up the fact that this shill couldn't even get the timeline right on Comeys letter being exposed in response to trumpys tweet.

Then I read on Claude Taylor's twitter feed that the shill isn't even licensed to practice in the DMV.

Yeah that's quality representation, but if that's what trumpy wants then go for it!.

Will be fun to watch.