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发帖数: 7021 | 2 I am Marc Kasowitz, President Trump's personal lawyer.
Contrary to numerous false press accounts leading up to today's hearing, Mr.
Comey has now finally confirmed publicly what he repeatedly told the
President privately: The President was not under investigation as part of
any probe into Russian interference. He also admitted that there is no
evidence that a single vote changed as a result of any Russian interference.
Mr Comey's testimony also makes clear that the President never sought to
impede the investigation into attempted Russian interference in the 2016
election, and in fact, according to Mr. Comey, the President told Mr. Comey
"it would be good to find out" in that investigation if there were "some '
satellite' associates of his who did something wrong." And he did not
exclude anyone from that statement.
Consistent with that statement, the President never, in form or substance,
directed or suggested that Mr. Comey stop investigating anyone, including
suggesting that that Mr. Comey "let Flynn go." As he publicly stated the
next day, he did say to Mr. Comey, "General Flynn is a good guy, he has been
through a lot," and also "asked how is General Flynn is doing." Admiral
Rogers testified that the President never "directed to do anything . . .
illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate" and never "pressured to do so.
" Director Coates said the same thing. The President likewise never
pressured Mr. Comey.
The President also never told Mr. Comey, "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty"
in form or substance. Of course, the Office of the President is entitled to
expect loyalty from those who are serving in an administration, and, from
before this President took office to this day, it is overwhelmingly clear
that there have been and continue to be those in government who are actively
attempting to undermine this administration with selective and illegal
leaks of classified information and privileged communications. Mr. Comey has
now admitted that he is one of these leakers.
Today, Mr. Comey admitted that he unilaterally and surreptitiously made
unauthorized disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the
President. The leaks of this privileged information began no later than
March 2017 when friends of Mr. Comey have stated he disclosed to them the
conversations he had with the President during their January 27, 2017 dinner
and February 14, 2017 White House meeting. Today, Mr. Comey admitted that
he leaked to friends his purported memos of these privileged conversations,
one of which he testified was classified. He also testified that immediately
after he was terminated he authorized his friends to leak the contents of
these memos to the press in order to "prompt the appointment of a special
counsel." Although Mr. Comey testified he only leaked the memos in response
to a tweet, the public record reveals that the New York Times was quoting
from these memos the day before the referenced tweet, which belies Mr. Comey
's excuse for this unauthorized disclosure of privileged information and
appears to entirely retaliatory. We will leave it the appropriate
authorities to determine whether this leaks should be investigated along
with all those others being investigated.
In sum, it is now established that the President was not being investigated
for colluding with the Russians or attempting to obstruct that investigation
. As the Committee pointed out today, these important facts for the country
to know are virtually the only facts that have not leaked during the long
course of these events.
As he said yesterday, the President feels completely vindicated and is eager
to continue moving forward with his agenda with this public cloud removed.
Thank you.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/08/watch-trumps-attorney-marc-kasowitz-delivers-statement-after-james-comey-testimony.html | s*******0
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