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    Trump asked James Comey to pledge his loyalty to him

    Trump asked James Comey to pledge his loyalty to him

    CBS News May 11, 2017, 11:40 PM

    Soon after he was inaugurated, President Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to pledge his loyalty to him, a request that Comey turned down, CBS News' Pat Milton confirmed Thursday, citing a law enforcement source who was told the story by Comey.

    Comey felt that conversation, which occurred in January, shortly after Mr. Trump was inaugurated, was the beginning of his downfall, according to the New York Times, which first reported the story.

    In January, Mr. Trump invited Comey to have dinner with him at the White House, and in the course of their conversation, the president asked Comey if he would pledge his loyalty to him. The FBI director declined, but he replied to the president that he would always be honest.

    Again during their dinner, Mr. Trump told Comey he needed his loyalty. And again, Comey responded that he would be honest, according to the source. Mr. Trump pressed Comey on whether it would be "honest loyalty." Comey said that he responded, "Yes, you will have that." He meant, said the source, that he would always be honest with the president.

    The Times reported that Comey was wary of accepting Mr. Trump's dinner invitation because he wished to avoid seeming too "chummy" with him, especially because of the ongoing Russia probe. He decided to go because he didn't think he could turn down the new president.

    In an interview with NBC News, President Trump mentioned the White House dinner with Comey, but he cited the dinner as one of three occasions when Comey had told him "you are not under investigation." Mr. Trump told NBC News' Lester Holt that Comey wanted to make a pitch to keep his job.

    "I think he asked for the dinner, and he wanted to stay on as the FBI head," the president told Holt. "And I said I'll, you know, consider and we'll see what happens."

    The White House has not commented on the story to CBS News, although Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the Times, "We don't believe this to be an accurate account," adding, "The integrity of our law enforcement agencies and their leadership is of the utmost importance to President Trump. He would never even suggest the expectation of personal loyalty, only loyalty to our country and its great people."

    Earlier Thursday, during the White House briefing Thursday, asked how important loyalty to the president is for the person serving as FBI director, Sanders said that "the main factor" is that "they're loyal to the justice system; they're loyal to the American people."

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    The White House has not commented on the story to CBS News, although Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the Times, "We don't believe this to be an accurate account," adding, "The integrity of our law enforcement agencies and their leadership is of the utmost importance to President Trump. He would never even suggest the expectation of personal loyalty, only loyalty to our country and its great people."
    Yes, I was thinking if Trump said anything to Comey about loyalty, he was referring to loyalty to the United States and the American People. I'm glad Sanders made this clarification. If Trump discussed loyalty with Comey, it's Comey who didn't understand what it meant.

    But, that said, it's still very important that all appointees have loyalty to the President, the White House, the Administration and the Agenda they were elected to execute. That's why we have elections. We don't have elections to change faces in the White House, we have elections to either continue existing agendas, or elections to change them. This election was all about changing the Agenda and fixing our country, and that would include some needed changes at the FBI. There's something very wrong in the FBI and possibly some of our other "Intel" agencies.too.

    Trump will get to the bottom of it, and the first step is removing Comey. Now he'll have to figure out who the Comey and Hillary Loyalists are in the FBI. Apparently quite a few. So that can't be remedied until a new Director is chosen and confirmed.
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    Trumps way of feeling him out. To see what he would say. I read Trump is very good at reading people just by watching their reactions to questions. He an expert at reading their body language, facial expressions, jesters, eyes. An absurd question would surly set some of these in action. Most likely testing Comey.

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