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Trump lashes out at former FBI director James Comey: 'Untruthful slime ball' - ABC News

posted onApril 14, 2018
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Article snippet: President George Stephanopoulos. The White House Friday presented no evidence that any information leaked by Comey was classified. The interview between Comey and Stephanopoulos will air Sunday night on ABC at 10 p.m. ET. During Friday's press briefing Sanders calling Comey's book a "poorly executed PR stunt by Comey to desperately rehabilitate his tattered reputation and enrich his own bank account by peddling a book that belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section." Sanders criticized the ongoing media coverage of Comey's book, as well as the upcoming ABC News interview. "Congress has asked Jim Comey to come and testify multiple times, of which he's denied being able to do," Sanders said. "Yet he found time to sit down with George Stephanopoulos for five hours." In the interview, Comey says the president asked him to investigate the unverified and salacious allegations in the infamous dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele in order to "prove that it didn't happen." Among the allegations, which Trump has vehemently denied, was an alleged sexual encounter with prostitutes in Russia in 2013. Comey said he recalled Trump discussing the dossier during a dinner with the president on Jan. 27, 2017. “He may want me to investigate it to prove that it didn't happen," Comey recalled in the interview. "And then he says something that distracted me because he said, you know, ‘If there's even a 1 percent ch... Link to the full article to read more

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