Day after Comey hearing, Donald Trump claims ‘total and complete vindication’

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President Donald Trump is asserting that fired FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to Congress represents “total and complete vindication” in the Russia case.

Trump, who did not post on his Twitter account as Comey appeared before the Senate intelligence committee Thursday, sent a tweet at daybreak Friday. In the post, the president said: “Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindcaiton … and WOW, Comey is a leaker.”

Trump was referring to Comey’s revelation that he had passed on to a friend a written memo he’d made detailing a meeting with Trump at the White House — and had asked a friend to give it to a reporter for the New York Times.

During much of the increasingly heated debate surrounding the FBI’s investigation of Russia’s role in the election, Trump has chafed over news leaks, arguing that news organizations had not given them proper attention.

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One comment

  • hoihiih

    June 9, 2017 at 11:38 am

    Political hack Obama hired political hack Comey that’s all anybody has to know.

    Trump could literally cure cancer but yet there would always be someone out there saying what a terrible man he is. Trump is doing GREAT things for us all! It’s time we sit back and witness GREATNESS in action! First time we’ve ever had a President like him, cherish these days! 

    Americans wanted our country back. Our jobs were being taken away. Our healthcare is too expensive. Mine is $600/month now (AND RISING!). My car insurance is still $25 per month (from Insurance Panda), but who knows when Dems will cause that to go up? Look at Detroit where car insurance is $300/month. Things are getting more and more expensive as it is. Can we really afford to support the world’s homeless?   

    It’s time we busted up the old establishment elites, the Bush’s the Clintons and all the regimes that handcuff our government.

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