There was so much said this morning that it’s hard to keep up with everything. But I thought these two exchanges between Comey and two Senate Intel Committee members about the blockbuster NY Times article from February that alleged collusion between Trump and Russia was very important.

Here’s a portion from the article:

Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials. American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said.

Here’s the first exchange with Comey and Senator Risch about the article (cued up to 1:47):

So Comey asserts that this February 14th blockbuster article is factually incorrect and, in the main, not true. It also bothered him so much that he went to Congress to let them know it was….as they say…bullpucky.







Tom Cotton picks back up on this to clear it up even further (cued up to 3:36):

Comey agrees that the article isn’t just inaccurate in the ‘main’, but “almost entirely wrong”.

As Hotair points out in their writeup on this, the Washington Post highlighted just how pivotal this NY Times article was and how adamant the NY Times writers were despite denials from the White House:

White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told “Fox News Sunday,” “The New York Times put out an article with no direct sources that said that the Trump campaign had constant contacts with Russian spies, basically, you know, some treasonous type of accusations. We have now all kinds of people looking into this. I can assure you and I have been approved to say this — that the top levels of the intelligence community have assured me that that story is not only inaccurate, but it’s grossly overstated and it was wrong. And there’s nothing to it.”… Attacks from folks such as Priebus prompted New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet to issue this defense: “The Times had numerous sources confirming this story. Attacking it does not make it less true.”

LOL! Apparently ‘numerous sources’ does not make it true either, so says the former FBI Director in sworn testimony.

So there you have it. The White House was right about this all along and the NY Times now has a lot of egg on its face.

It’s no wonder Trump tweeted out that the some in the media are the enemy of the people. While I think he should have never tweeted that, I totally get why he would do that, especially in light of this.