{"id":307869,"date":"2017-05-12T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lester-holt-trump-makes-a-fair-point-about-democrat-hypocrisy-on-comey\/"},"modified":"2017-05-12T16:37:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:37:37","slug":"lester-holt-trump-makes-a-fair-point-about-democrat-hypocrisy-on-comey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lester-holt-trump-makes-a-fair-point-about-democrat-hypocrisy-on-comey\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester Holt: Trump \u2018Makes a Fair Point\u2019 About Democrat Hypocrisy On Comey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump: \u201cComey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>May 12, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>NBC News anchor Lester Holt said following his interview with the president, that Trump handed him papers with around 20 quotes from Democrats slamming former FBI director James Comey, prior to his firing this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is the document exchange, which some people suggested (falsely) was Trump handing off pre-approved questions:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump Hands Paper to Lester Holt: &#8220;These Are The Questions Allowed Today&#8221; LOL: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0xajS6sPg7\">https:\/\/t.co\/0xajS6sPg7<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube\">@YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MomoTV (@WatchingMomo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WatchingMomo\/status\/862771826904137729\">May 11, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This morning Holt presented the document to the \u201cToday\u201d hosts, describing it as \u201cfive pages of quotes of Democrats who have been critical of Comey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YaYpmi5i2ig\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few calling for his resignation, calling for his firing, being critical,\u201d Holt noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were about 20 quotes on here, but the president wanted me to have that. And it makes a fair point that a lot of Democrats were not happy with Comey either, many believing that he torpedoed Hillary Clinton\u2019s chances.\u201d Holt added.<\/p>\n<p>White House aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders also quoted a list of Democrats who had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/now-they-play-so-sad-trump-slams-democrats-for-flip-flopping-on-comey\/\">previously slammed Comey<\/a>\u00a0during a press briefing Thursday:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AJf_4u2wfm8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The following telling video highlights just how many Democrats have flip-flopped on Comey since Trump dismissed him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAUFqVMBJus\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since his firing, Comey has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-comey-firing.html\">begun leaking<\/a>\u00a0details of a private dinner with Trump, during which he refused to pledge personal loyalty to the president three times.<\/p>\n<p>The White House disputes the report, with Huckabee Sanders saying \u201cWe don\u2019t believe this to be an accurate account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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.\u201d the acting press secretary&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/lester-holt-trump-makes-a-fair-point-about-democrat-hypocrisy-on-comey.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: \u201cComey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comMay 12, 2017 NBC News anchor Lester Holt said following his interview with the president, that Trump handed him papers with around 20 quotes from Democrats slamming former FBI director James Comey, prior to his firing this week. Here is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-307869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}