Tag: nytimes

  • It Gets Worse

    This morning, the Times’ Michael S. Schmidt reported that Comey left a fantastic paper trail before he was fired: President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo…

  • Who Do You Meet With After Firing The FBI Director Investigating Your Collusion With Russia?

    David E. Sanger and Neil MacFarquhar for the Times: Only hours after dismissing James B. Comey as director of the F.B.I., amid an investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russian officials, the president met with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, at the White House. The Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey I.…

  • A Brief History of the President’s Lies

    David Leonhardt in the opinion pages: The president of the United States is lying again. He is lying about the reason he fired James Comey, the F.B.I. director. Trump claimed that he was doing so because Comey bungled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email, which meant that Comey was “not able to effectively lead the…

  • Trump Fires FBI Director Running Investigation Into Trump’s Campaign

    (Now former) FBI Director Comey back in March, quoted by the New York Times: Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. was “investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.” Yesterday Trump wrote this letter informing…

  • The Orange Embarassment Doesn’t Even Know How to Order a Wiretap

    This is the immediate aftermath of Trump’s insane lie about President Obama wiretapping him during the campaign according to a New York Times article by Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman: That led to a succession of frantic staff conference calls, including one consultation with the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, as staff members…