Amid more salacious talk and other key interactions—including discussions of “golden showers”; how President Trump claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin bragged to him that Russia had the “most beautiful hookers in the world”; and a request by the president for the then FBI director to “let go” of the investigation into national security advisor Michael Flynn—a revealing moment contained in the contemporaneous memos of James Comey, redacted versions of which were released Thursday night, is when Trump suggests jailing journalists and then having them sexually assaulted as way to force them to “talk” about their sources.
In response, Comey admits, he just “laughed.”
In one of the memos—dated Feb. 14, 2017 and which details a White House meeting—Comey writes:
As many quickly pointed out, Trump’s “make a new friend” comment—which draws laughter from Comey—is a very clear, if not grotesque, reference to someone being raped:
Overall, the release of the memos—done at the urging of the GOP members sitting on the House Intelligence Committee—has provoked new uproar and partisan bickering over their implications.
But as critics of Comey have pointed out, nothing in Trump’s deplorable behavior—including the possibility he attempted to obstruct justice by firing the former FBI director—should make people forget the “authoritarian” tendencies and troubling legacy that were part of Comey’s career at the bureau.
“Comey may be a demonstration of how Trump obstructed justice, and his testimony deserves close consideration,” wrote columnist Ryan Cooper earlier this week. “But he is no martyr for democracy, and neither is he a moral exemplar in general.”
Cooper adds:
With Comey now in the middle of a media blitz to talk about his experiences with Trump and promote his new book, the war between the president and the former FBI director is gobbling up massive amount of air time on the cable news networks and receiving frontpage coverage both in the U.S. and abroad.
Late Thursday night, Trump responded to the memos directly on Twitter:
But many legal experts, lawmakers, and political commentators were quick to say that is the nearly the opposite of what the memos indicate:
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View the full text of the all the Comey memos, as released, below: