READ MORE: Donald Trump calls James Comey a ‘LEAKER & LIAR,’ who should be prosecutedĬomey sat down with ABC News to discuss his forthcoming tell-all book, titled A Higher Loyalty, which sheds light on the time he spent inside the Trump administration, the details of his firing, and even goes so far as to compare the president to a mob boss. “I said to him, ‘Sir that’s up to you but you want to be careful about that because it might create a narrative that we’re investigating you personally and, second, it’s very difficult to prove something didn’t happen,’” Comey said in an interview aired Friday. In an interview with ABC News’ chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, Comey said he was asked to investigate allegations made in the dossier, compiled by a former British secret agent, to prove they were not true. President Donald Trump asked him to investigate allegations in an intelligence dossier that the president had met with Russian prostitutes during a trip Moscow in 2013. So what kind of marriage to what kind of man, does your wife think there's only a 99% chance you didn't do that?"Ĭomey advised the president against pursuing an investigation because he said it would make it appear that Trump was being personally investigated and because it is very difficult to prove something didn't happen.Ex-FBI boss James Comey claims U.S. Newly-declassified documents show then-FBI Director James Comey purposefully lied about the Steele Dossier. "I'm a flawed human being, but there is literally zero chance that my wife would think that was true. He said, 'If there's even a 1% chance that my wife thinks that's true, that's terrible.' And I remember thinking, 'How could your wife think there's a 1% chance that you were with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow?'" he said. Devin Nunes, a Republican and Trump ally on Capitol Hill, to observe that the.
"And then he says something that distracted me. FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Monday prompted even Rep. "I was floating above myself, looking down, saying, 'You're sitting here briefing the incoming president of the United States about prostitutes in Moscow.'"Ĭomey said that Trump brought the dossier back up months later, asking Comey to investigate it and prove it didn't happen.
"It was almost an out-of-body experience for me," he said. Instead Comey told Trump that he was not necessarily saying there was any credit to the claims. FBIs James Comey personally briefed Trump on Russia report, official says Jan. And he interrupted very defensively, and started talking about, 'Do I look like a guy who needs hookers?'"Ĭomey said he treated this question as a rhetorical and didn't respond. Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, told reporters on Wednesday that Russia had no kompromat a Russian secret services term for compromising material on Mr Trump, as alleged in the unsourced. "I started to tell him about the allegation was, that he had been involved with prostitutes in a hotel in Moscow in 2013 during a visit for the Miss Universe pageant and that the Russians had filmed the episode. "It was all, 'What can we say about what they did, and how it affects the election that we just had?'"Īs for the dossier, Comey said that he approached the president about it because he believed that it was important that he know. News groups are revisiting their coverage of allegations against candidate and then President Trump, after a Russian analyst, a key source for the Steele Dossier, was charged with lying to the FBI. "No one, to my recollection asked, 'So what's coming next from the Russians? How might we stop it?'" he said. When speaking to then-President-elect Trump and his team about the election scandal, Comey was surprised at how focused they were on the public relations aspect, he said.
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See the full interview on ''20/20'' on April 15.įormer FBI Director James Comey is opening up about his conversations with President Donald Trump involving the Russian election scandal and the dossier that alleged the president's involvement with prostitutes in 2013. Former FBI Director James Comey sits down for an exclusive interview with ABC News.
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