Obama Ethics Lawyer: Comey’s Remarks Are ‘Like Trial Testimony’
President Barack Obama’s top ethics lawyer responded to former FBI Director James Comey’s Senate remarks by saying it sounds like “trial testimony.”
“Clearly Director Comey is looking ahead to the day, beyond the hearing tomorrow, where he may have to testify about this,” Norm Eisen said Wednesday on CNN.
“Whether it’s in an obstruction proceeding, in an impeachment proceeding, or something else,” he added. “And it’s like trial testimony with the detail. It has the ring of truth.”
Mr. Eisen also said that Comey’s testimony about former national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves America “heading into very, very choppy waters.”
“And that Flynn conversation, it is another nail in Trump’s coffin,” he continued.
“I think that this now with the additional detail in the Comey memo, this moves us into the same realm as Nixon’s obstruction, maybe worse. This is the equivalent of the Nixon tapes.”
James Comey’s opening remarks to the Senate Intelligence Committee was publicly released Wednesday, one day before he is set to testify before the committee.
Comey’s testimony confirms earlier media reports that Donald Trump pressured him to “let go” of the investigation into Flynn.
In his testimony, Comey also recounts that Trump once asked him to “lift the cloud” of the FBI’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race.
Trump pressed Comey to pledge his loyalty to him during a one-on-one dinner, the Comey testimony confirms.
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