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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, May 13, 2017
Since
President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on May 9, the
explanations for the dismissal have been getting murkier. Now Trump has
tweeted a threat to cancel press briefings and a suggestion about
"tapes" of his private conversations with Comey. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
President Trump threatened Friday morning to end White House press
briefings, arguing that “it is not possible” for his staff to speak with
“perfect accuracy” to the American public.
Trump's comments come after his description of his decision to fire FBI
Director James B. Comey in an NBC News interview Thursday flatly
contradicted the accounts provided earlier by White House officials,
including Vice President Pence, exposing their explanations as
misleading and in some cases false.
In a pair of tweets sent Friday, Trump suggested he might do away with
the daily press briefings at the White House and instead have his
spokesmen communicate to the public only via “written responses.”
As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!....
...Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???
The explanations for Comey's firing from the Trump White House have
shifted repeatedly since the move was announced late Tuesday afternoon,
undermining the credibility of Pence as well as White House press
secretary Sean Spicer, principal deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway.
On Friday, Spicer told reporters that the president was “dismayed” at
the focus on the accuracy of statements delivered by his spokesmen.
“The president is an active president. He keeps a very robust schedule,”
Spicer said. “I think sometimes we don’t have an opportunity to get
into see him and get his full thinking.”
“There are times you read a story where someone is trying to pull apart
one word one sentence … and make it a gotcha thing,” he added.
Initially, Trump's aides said the president acted simply at the
recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney
General Rod J. Rosenstein. After meeting with Trump, Rosenstein wrote a
memorandum detailing what he considered to be mistakes in Comey's
handling of the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a
private email server as secretary of state.
By Wednesday, White House officials were saying that Trump had
contemplated firing Comey for a long period of time, but made the final
determination after hearing from Sessions and Rosenstein.
All along, Trump's spokesmen insisted that his decision was not shaped
in any way by his growing fury with the Russia controversy, including
the FBI investigation overseen by Comey into Russia's interference with
the 2016 presidential election and whether there had been any
coordination with Trump associates.
Then on Thursday, Trump told NBC anchor Lester Holt that the decision to
fire Comey was his alone and that he would have made it “regardless” of
what Rosenstein recommended. Furthermore, Trump told Holt that he had
been thinking of “this Russia thing with Trump” when he arrived at his
decision to remove the FBI director.
“In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, ‘You
know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story; it’s
an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should
have won,'" Trump said.