Comey details ( ) and ( ) meetings with ( )
In a sweeping opening ( )
released ahead of his ( )
to the Senate ( ),
former FBI Director ( ) detailed
a series of ( ) with ( )
in which he says
( ) left
him feeling uncomfortable and "concerned,"
pressed
him for ( )
pushed
him to clear ( )'s name
and drop ( )
into former national security adviser ( ).
In ( ),
Comey painted
a cringe-worthy ( ) of his meetings and calls
with the newly-minted ( ) -- [(화폐를)주조하다]
closed-door meetings, private dinners and phone calls
in which he says
( ) harped
on ( ) of Flynn and the Russia investigation.
( ) left
him
in an "awkward silence" with ( )
at one point
and drove
him to beseech ( ) Sessions [간청하다]
not to allow "any further direct ( )
between the President and me."
What ( ) and ( ) discussed
has become a matter of intense ( )
after ( ) surfaced
last month
that Trump asked
( ) to put the brakes
on the Flynn ( ) , allegations
contained in ( )
that was described to ( ).
The alleged request raised
the specter of ( ) of justice,
but the White House denied
( ) .
Read Comey's prepared ( )
Trump's ( )
for firing Comey
in ( )
have also come
under ( ). [sc 정밀조사]
Initially, ( ) referred
to a letter from ( )
citing Comey's botched ( ) of the Clinton investigation, [bo 실패한]
but he later said
he was thinking about ( )
when he decided to fire ( ).
And Trump's ( )
in his letter firing Comey
that the FBI director assured
him ( ) times
that he was not under ( )
also became a point of contention. [co 다툼]
( ) were skeptical, [as 연상] [sk 의심스러운]
but ( ) is set to testify tomorrow
that ( ) did offer
those ( )
(though it's unclear
if ( ) was referring to ( )
as he states
at ( )).
“The President is pleased
that Mr. Comey has finally publicly confirmed
his private reports
that the President was not under investigation
in any Russian probe,"
Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz said
in a statement.
"The President feels
completely and totally
vindicated. [정당성을 입증하다]
He is eager to continue
to move forward
with his agenda.”
Here's a look
at what Comey is expected
to say in his testimony Thursday:
"Loyalty"
In one notable exchange,
Comey described
a private dinner
at the White House on Jan. 27
when Trump turned to his future as FBI director.
"A few moments later,
the President said,
'I need loyalty,
I expect loyalty,'"
the statement reads.
"I didn’t move, speak, or change
my facial expression
in any way
during the awkward silence
that followed.
We simply looked at each other
in silence."
When Trump returned to the top
at the end of the dinner,
Comey only promised "honesty."
"He paused and then said,
'That’s what I want, honest loyalty,'"
the statement said.
"I paused, and then said,
'You will get that
from me.'"
During a May 12 press briefing,
Press Secretary Sean Spicer denied
that Trump had asked Comey
for loyalty.
"No," Spicer said
when asked if "the President implore him [간청하다]
to pledge his loyalty to the President."
Comey also detailed
his version of a Feb. 14 meeting,
where he says
Trump asked him
to drop any investigation
into former national security adviser Mike Flynn
after dismissing other advisers,
as well as the attorney general,
from the Oval Office.
Some have suggested
that obstruction of justice may apply to Trump
because of his request to Comey
about Flynn,
but the White House has denied
that the president tried to block the probe.
"The president has never asked
Mr. Comey or anyone else
to end any investigation,
including any investigation
involving General Flynn,"
the White House statement from May
said.
In Comey's statement,
he details Trump's alleged closed-door efforts
to get him to look the other way.
“I hope
you can see your way clear
to letting this go,
to letting Flynn go.
He is a good guy.
I hope
you can let this go.”
Trump said,
according to the prepared statement
from Comey.
Trump's alleged request
to Comey --
first reported
last month after sources described
a memo Comey wrote
about the matter --
came a day after Flynn had resigned.
Comey,
who said he agreed
Flynn was a "good guy,"
writes in his statement
that he did not tell Trump
he would let the Flynn investigation go.
"I had understood the President
to be requesting
that we drop any investigation of Flynn
in connection with false statements
about his conversations
with the Russian ambassador
in December,"
the statement said.
"I did not understand
the President to be talking
about the broader investigation
into Russia or possible links
to his campaign.
I could be wrong,
but I took him to be focusing
on what had just happened
with Flynn’s departure and the controversy
around his account of his phone calls.
Regardless,
it was very concerning,
given the FBI’s role
as an independent investigative agency."
In the wake of news of the Comey memo
last month,
some questioned
why Comey didn't bring
the matter forward
at the time.
Comey's testimony appears to address
that matter.
"The FBI leadership team agreed with me
that it was important
not to infect the investigative team
with the President’s request,
which we did not intend to abide,"
Comey's statement said.
"We also concluded
that, given that it was a one-on-one conversation,
there was nothing available to corroborate my account." [확증하다]
The former FBI director said
the leadership team concluded
"it made little sense"
to report Trump's request
about Flynn to Sessions,
who was expected to recuse himself
in the Russia probe,
or the acting deputy attorney general,
who was not going to be
in the role long,
Comey wrote.
"After discussing the matter,
we decided
to keep it very closely held,
resolving to figure out
what to do with it down the road
as our investigation progressed,"
the statement read.
When asked om May 18
if he had "in any way, shape or form" asked Comey
to back off the Flynn investigation,
Trump said "No. No. Next question."
Shutting down communication with Trump
Shortly after his Feb. 14 meeting with Trump,
however, Comey had an in-person meeting
with Sessions and
"implore[d] the Attorney General
to prevent any future direct communication
between the President and me."
Comey also said
that when he mentioned to Sessions
that he thought
it was "inappropriate" for the president
to dismiss the AG
from the room
but keep the FBI director behind,
Sessions "did not reply."
"For the reasons
discussed above,
I did not mention
that the President broached [운을 떼다]
the FBI’s potential investigation of General Flynn,"
he wrote.
3 assurances
Trump was not under investigation
During the interactions,
Comey assured
Trump three times
that he was not "personally" the subject of a counter-intelligence investigation,
a fact that Trump allegedly requested he "get out,"
according to Comey's prepared remarks.
The former FBI director's first encounter with Trump was
in Jan. 6
when Trump was president-elect,
for an intelligence briefing
on the "salacious and unverified" dossier [조서]
when Trump was president-elect.
"That was true;
we did not have
an open counter-intelligence case
on him,"
Comey's testimony reads.
Comey's testimony continues,
"During our one-on-one meeting
at Trump Tower,
based on President-elect Trump’s reaction
to the [Jan 6] briefing
and without him directly asking the question,
I offered that assurance."
The remarks indicate
Comey gave
Trump similar assurances
during a dinner on Jan. 27
and a March 30 phone call.
"Cloud" hanging
over the presidency
Over a March 30 phone call,
Trump told Comey
that the Russia investigation --
which had plagued the new administration for months --
was a "cloud"
that was impairing his ability
to do his job as president.
"He asked
what we could do
to 'lift the cloud.'"
Comey writes.
According to Comey,
Trump pushed him
to find a way to publicly make known
that the FBI isn't investigating him.
"I told him
I would see what we could do,
and that we would do our investigative work well
and as quickly as we could,"
Comey's testimony states.
Comey then called
Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente
for guidance.
On April 11 -- the last time Comey spoke to Trump --
the president called Comey,
wanting to know
what Comey had done
to meet his request
that he "get out"
that Trump is not personally under investigation,
Comey's statement said.
Comey informed Trump
that the White House counsel, Don McGahn, should notify
the Justice Department
to make the request.
"He said
he would do that and added,
'Because I have been very loyal to you, very loyal;
we had that thing you know.'
I did not reply or ask him
what he meant
by 'that thing,'"
Comey writes.
Trump ultimately made the decision
to fire Comey on May 9,
an unexpected decision
by Trump
that Democrats decried
and some Republicans questioned.
The president later admitted
in an interview with NBC
that he was thinking of the Russia investigation
when he made up his mind
to fire Comey.
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