That tweet would appear to directly contradict the report from the justice department on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s “lack of candor.” Specifically the reference to who had knowledge of McCabe’s background interview with the WSJ and what Comey told Senator Chuck Grassley about authorizing interviews with the press. The DOJ report asserts that McCabe had lied and Comey had told the truth.
The President cannot have it both ways. He’s grasping for straws.
From WaPo:
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in May, shortly before Comey’s firing, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) probed Comey about leaks to the press:
GRASSLEY: Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the [Hillary] Clinton investigation?
COMEY: Never.
GRASSLEY: Question two, relatively related: Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
COMEY: No.
Comey’s responses appear to be at least somewhat inconsistent with a statement that former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe issued last month after his own firing, which the Justice Department attributed in part to “an unauthorized disclosure to the news media.”