{"id":74761,"date":"2017-06-10T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74761"},"modified":"2017-06-10T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T19:04:00","slug":"comey-crimes-now-include-perjury-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74761","title":{"rendered":"Comey Crimes Now Include Perjury To Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CONFIRMED: COMEY COMMITTED PERJURY TO CONGRESS<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>NYT debunked: Trump didn&#8217;t directly order end of Flynn investigation<\/h3>\n<p>Kit Daniels | Infowars.com<div id=\"attachment_74762\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060817comeyswornin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74762\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060817comeyswornin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060817comeyswornin.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060817comeyswornin-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060817comeyswornin-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGE CREDITS: CHIP SOMODEVILLA\/GETTY IMAGES.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite admitting President Trump \u201csimply hoped\u201d the FBI would drop its probe into former national security advisor Michael Flynn, former FBI Director James Comey said he interpreted this as a direct order, which contradicts his sworn Senate testimony on May 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comey now confirms Trump simply hoped the investigation into Flynn would end during their Feb. meeting in the White House, which Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) pointed out was a \u201cwish\u201d rather than an actual directive from the president:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H4hzuRWrroo\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But Comey claims he interpreted Trump\u2019s wish as a direct order, which contradicts his sworn Senate testimony on May 3 in which he said from his experience, the Trump administration did not try to stop the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The former FBI director even told Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) it would \u201cbe a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something that \u2013 without an appropriate purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal. It\u2019s not happened in my experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s that exchange from May 3:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ceCaFCG2j8\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Comey\u2019s statement to Rubio also contradicts his February memo that the mainstream media claimed was a \u201csmoking gun\u201d against Trump, particularly the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/16\/us\/politics\/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times article from May 16<\/a> which sourced Comey\u2019s memo to claim Trump asked him to shut down the probe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CzMSGF5P8Hw\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/breaking-comey-caught-committing-perjury-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flashback!<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4OgDai05bkU\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/confirmed-comey-committed-perjury-to-congress\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/confirmed-comey-committed-perjury-to-congress\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONFIRMED: COMEY COMMITTED PERJURY TO CONGRESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}