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Did he just call Boebert and Mace dumb😂
November 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Even worse!!!
Cause to parrot Russian disinformation!!!
To begin, the tweet does not reflect the President’s opinion about Mr. Comey, nor does it refer to Mr. Comey’s May 3 testimony as the government misleadingly implies. Instead, the tweet quotes a report based on a conversation on Fox and Friends describing a letter written by former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page stating Page’s view of Mr. Comey’s March 20, 2017 testimony about links between the Trump campaign and the Russia government.5 This tweet can hardly qualify as expressing the President’s legitimate prosecutorial motive—as opposed to relaying hearsay from a television program with no factual basis. In fact, it is the type of unfounded accusation that displays animus rather than a genuine interest in justice. And despite the government’s reliance on it as preceding Mr. Comey’s public statements, the tweet came after the news broke about Mr. Comey’s imminent testimony, i.e., after the President knew that Mr. Comey intended to exercise his First Amendment rights to speak publicly about Mr. Trump’s conduct in office. The President’s preemptive effort to discredit Mr. Comey reflects his animus triggered by Mr. Comey’s anticipated protected speech. 5 The tweet (issued in two parts) says: “So now it is reported that the Democrats who have excoriated Carter Page about Russia, don’t want him to testify. He blows away their....” “...case against him & now wants to clear his name by showing ‘the false or misleading testimony by James Comey, John Brennan...’ Witch Hunt!” Appendix at 1. The tweet was issued thirty minutes after Fox and Friends broke the same story. Id. And Mr. Comey had testified publicly before the House Intelligence Committee on March 20, 2017, to confirm the Trump-campaign and Russian-interference investigation. See Mueller Report, supra n.4 at 52-53.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Oh nooooooooooo!!!

Donny!!!

You've given Comey cause to introduce the Mueller Report!!!!
4 See Robert S. Mueller, III, Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election Vol. II, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, at 27-28, 33-36, 38-41, 57-60 (Mar. 2019) (“Mueller Report”) (recounting Mr. Comey’s mounting concern about the impropriety of the President’s actions), https://perma.cc/W3DH-PLS3. The President’s concerns were well founded: Mr. Comey’s June 8, 2017 testimony provided many details about his troubling interactions with the President. Open Hearing with Former FBI Director James Comey Before the S. Comm. on Intelligence, 115th Cong., 1st. Sess. (June 8, 2017) (“Intel Hearing”), https://perma.cc/UG4P-K2ZJ.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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ottovondanger.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM