Trump accuses Comey of perjury and slams McCabe "fake memo"!

Trump assails Mueller team.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 18, 2018 - In one of his signature early morning tweetstorms, Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump raged on Sunday about the political slant of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team, and accused former FBI Director James Comey of lying under oath. The tweets followed an Axios report published late Saturday night claiming that former FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday and was stripped of his pension benefits, had met with Mueller, who asked him about Trump's firing of Comey nearly a year earlier, and also turned over "contemporaneous" memos that he'd taken detailing his conversations with the president.

The memos contained a corroborating account of Comey's firing.

Trump claimed that Comey lied during public Senate testimony last spring when he said he'd never been an anonymous source for the news media - then admitted that he had authorized a friend to leak one of his memos to The New York Times, which Comey said he did in hopes of sparking a special counsel investigation.

In this particular case, Trump may be referencing what he discussed last night, namely that McCabe may himself have jeopardized Comey, a point underscored by constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley, who suggested that McCabe's statement following his firing immediately raised a flag, which may lead to serious consequences for his former boss.

McCabe's statement reads in part, “The OIG investigation has focused on information I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor. As Deputy Director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the Director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter.”

Turley notes, "There was one line in the case statement last night that I immediately flagged. Because he said that he had authority to do this and he conferred with the Director - the Director at the time was James Comey."

"Now, the problem there is that James Comey said under oath that he never leaked information and never approved a leak," said Turley. "So if the Inspector General believes this was a leak to the media, it raises serious questions about Comey’s previous testimony and could get him into serious trouble."

Trump then shifted to McCabe, saying he "never took notes when he was with me. I don't believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them fake memos?"

Meanwhile, the White House on Saturday did nothing to clear up the confusion about Trump’s stance toward Mueller’s probe.

In a statement, Trump lead attorney John Dowd said Saturday morning, "I pray that Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and bring an end to alleged the Russia collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier."

Dowd quickly clarified that he was speaking for himself, not for the president. Even so, Trump cheered the firing of McCabe, calling the FBI corrupt, and claiming the House Intelligence Committee found “there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.” The full committee released no such finding, although Republicans on the panel said they found no evidence of collusion.

In a statement published by McCabe - who was offered a security position by Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan, which should allow him to finish his tenure and collect his pension - the former deputy FBI director reportedly said that his dismissal was a deliberate effort to slander him and part of an ongoing war against the FBI and Mueller's investigation.

One thing is certain: this is just the beginning of Trump's angry tirade about McCabe's firing, whose fate is now closely tied to that of Comey, even as special counsel Mueller watches every outburst by Trump while he builds his obstruction case against the president.

“How many hundreds of thousands of dollars were given to his wife’s campaign by Crooked H friend, Terry M, who was also under investigation?” Trump asked in an earlier tweet. “How many lies? How many leaks? Comey knew it all, and much more.”