Because if it was leaked that @realDonaldTrump was personally not under investigation- it would have crushed the entire narrative. pic.twitter.com/drFcCxin5M
— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) June 8, 2017
Talk about manipulative. He’s upset he was fired and how Trump is painting it so he leaks his memos to pump the media madness to get a special counsel. The one thing that wasn’t leaked? Rubio points it out: that Trump wasn’t actually under investigation.
Via The Hill:
Shortly after his dismissal as head of the FBI, James Comey authorized “a close friend” to leak the contents of his memos to the press in order to prompt a special counsel investigation.
The memo, written contemporaneously, documented Comey’s Oval Office meeting with President Trump during which the president allegedly asked him to drop the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter,” Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. “I didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”