James Comey’s media tour is turning into a disaster for him.

Twice in the last few days, Comey was forced to give a tortured explanation as to why he is not a leaker for directing a friend to turn over FBI documents to the media. Comey’s redefinition of what a “leak” is even left CNN’s Anderson Cooper confused.

The American people are clearly paying attention, as Comey’s approval numbers have tanked:

James Comey's PR tour looks like a bust.



Q poll shows his fav-unfav worsening from 38-36 last year to 30-41 today.https://t.co/Vlpf3pNxs1 — Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) April 26, 2018

And last night, Comey showed a stunning lack of knowledge of basic facts surrounding the Fusion GPS “dossier.”

Check it out here. It is a frightening display of ignorance from the man who was in charge of the Russia investigation and was tasked with briefing the President on these issues.

James Comey Displays Stunning Lack Of Knowledge Of Facts Behind Fusion GPS “Dossier”

Transcript:

FOX NEWS’ BRET BAIER: When did you learn that the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign had funded Christopher Steele’s work?

JAMES COMEY: Yeah, I still don't know that for a fact.

BAIER: What do you mean?

COMEY: I’ve only seen it in the media. I never knew exactly which Democrats had funded. I knew it was funded first by Republicans. Of those –

BAIER: But that's not true.

COMEY: I’m sorry?

BAIER: That's not true, that the dossier that Christopher Steele worked on was funded by Republicans?

COMEY: My understanding was his work started funded by, as oppo-research funded by Republicans after –

BAIER: So Free Beacon had said that they had Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS on a kind of retainer but they did not fund the Christopher Steele memo or the dossier. That was initiated by Democrats.

COMEY: Okay, my understanding was the activity was begun, that, that Steele was hired to look into was first funded by Republicans, then picked up, the important thing was picked up by Democrats opposed to Donald Trump.

BAIER: So is that why, did you tell President Obama that the dossier was, who it was funded by?

COMEY: No, not to my recollection.

BAIER: Did you want to know who it was funded by?

COMEY: I wanted to know what I knew, which was it was funded by people politically opposed to Donald Trump.

BAIER: Okay.

COMEY: Which particular opponents wasn’t that important to me.

BAIER: But when did you, so you still to this day don’t know that it was funded by the DNC for the Clinton Campaign?

COMEY: I’ve read that in the media but I don’t know for a fact, and didn’t know while I was at the FBI who, which exact opponent of the President’s funded that.

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