President Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, will make a public statement in response to Former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony on Capitol Hill. The statement is expected to begin around 2pm ET.
According to a leak, no pun intended, of Kasowitz’ statement, Trump’s lawyer will say that “The President also never told Mr. Comey, ‘I need loyalty, I expect loyalty’ in form or substance.” He will add that “Of course, the Office of the President is entitled to expect loyalty from those who are serving in an administration.”
Kasowitz also attacks Comey for leaking “privileged communications” with Trump to the media as a retaliatory action.
The full statement is below:
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.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 8, 2017.
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