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Another alleged “bombshell” fell on Washington, D.C. Tuesday, this one in the form of a memo Comey supposedly left for himself in his Russia investigation file. According to The New York Times, who had the unclassified memo read to them by a Comey associate over the phone, it purported claims that Trump pressured Comey to end the FBI investigation into Mike Flynn. Every member of the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) rushed to shout the claims, but none of them have actually seen the memo first hand.
“Tonight, breaking news as we come on, what could be a new bombshell. Did President Trump ask former FBI director James Comey -- to shut down the federal investigation into retired general Michael Flynn,” hyped ABC’s superficial Anchor David Muir during the opening tease for World News Tonight. He followed that up with: “Pierre, you’ve actually confirmed this evening that Comey did write a memo to document his interaction with President Trump.”
But according to Pierre Thomas’ own report to Muir, he did not see the memo himself. “The source said he's seen the Comey memo and he confirmed the quote to The New York Times specifically,” he told Muir in response. Of course, this important piece of information was reserved for near the end of their memo coverage.
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