Fired FBI Director James Comey told President Trump in early 2017 that he is not a leaker.

"I said I don't do sneaky things, I don't leak, I don't do weasel moves," Comey recounted himself telling Trump Jan. 28, 2017, in a memo he wrote after the meeting. Comey's memos leaked Thursday night after being released to Congress.

Despite Comey's claim, Comey eventually decided to leak his own memos to a Columbia law professor, who then leaked them to the press.

Reacting to the memos Thursday night, Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., noted some of the memos Comey leaked to his friend included classified information, which he called a "big no no."



Some of the Comey memos contained classified information. Intentionally leaking classified information is a big no no. The referral we sent to DOJ regarding Comey has been buttressed. — Ron DeSantis (@RepDeSantis) April 20, 2018



Comey said his comment to Trump was his way of telling the president that he's "reliable," but he said he didn't mean "reliable" in the way "political people sometimes use the term."

"I explained that he could count on me to always tell him the truth," Comey said in his memo.