FILE PHOTO: Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on "Russian Federation Efforts to Interfere in the 2016 U.S. Elections" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said that James Comey’s memos could be used as evidence in a future criminal trial against Donald Trump.
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Sen. Murphy said on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, “My perspective is simple. Thank goodness that James Comey kept records of these conversations with the president of the United States. These are conversations related to obstruction of justice by the president that may end up being part of criminal proceedings after the president leaves office and are of interest to all Americans who want to make sure that the highest levels of government are being held accountable. So I think that we’re better off as a nation for James Comey having kept these memos. I think they’ll be important well after the administration wraps up.”
According to the IG report, the Comey memos were not classified information, so James Comey didn’t break the law when he made them public. Since the memos are public, they could be used in a future obstruction of justice criminal trial against Donald Trump.
The message behind what Sen. Murphy was saying is that Trump’s problems are only going to get worse if he loses in 2020. Trump isn’t going to get the out of sight out of mind treatment that other former unpopular presidents have gotten. Trump may very well end up in prison after he leaves office, and it would be poetic justice if it were James Comey’s memos that helped to put him there.
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