Trump Reportedly Lied to James Comey About That 2013 Miss Universe Trip

Lol, the scumbag didn't simply say, I never banged 5 hookers(4, maybe?), he said it was impossible because he didn't spend the night in Russia. Now, it turns out that he even lied about THAT, so, connect the dots, Righty Scum...

https://splinternews.com/trump-reportedly-lied-to-james-comey-about-that-2013-mi-1825485613[h=1]Trump Reportedly Lied to James Comey About That 2013 Miss Universe Trip[/h] Paul Blest Today 8:49pmFiled to: Donald Trump

Amid news that his confirmation hearing has been postponed, CBS News’ Steve Dorsey reported on Twitter that White House physician and Donald Trump’s [URL="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/trumps-doctor-ronny-jackson-subject-improper-conduct-claims-may-derail-va-nomination/"]Veterans Affairs head nominee Ronny Jackson has been accused of improper conduct that includes “drinking on the job.”
According to Dorsey, two sources close to the matter told CBS reporters the committee “is reviewing allegations against Ronny Jackson which include a hostile work environment, excessive drinking on the job and improperly dispensing meds.”

Dorsey noted that Sen. John Tester (D-MT), the leading Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, was the one who asked to postpone Jackson’s Wednesday hearing in light of the allegations. In an interview with The Washington Post before the allegations were made public, Tester said the committee is “doing our job to make sure he’s fit for the job.”
CNN’s Manu Raju noted that both Republicans and Democrats privately mused that the White House “appears to have done a shoddy job vetting Jackson.”


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The memos of former FBI director James Comey which leaked last week provided two separate instances of President Donald Trump denying that he stayed in Moscow overnight during his infamous 2013 Miss Universe trip. A a new report from Bloomberg contradicts those claims.

“He said he arrived in the morning, did events, then showered and dressed for the pageant at the hotel (he didn’t say the hotel name) and left for the pageant,” Comey wrote of a dinner at the White House on January 27, 2017. “Afterwards, he returned only to get his things because they departed for New York by plane that same night.” Less than two weeks later, Comey wrote after a meeting on February 8: “He then explained, as he did at our dinner, that he hadn’t stayed overnight in Russia during the Miss Universe trip.”





According to Bloomberg’s reporting, however, flight records show that Trump flew on a private jet owned by business associate Phil Ruffin from Asheville to Moscow on November 7, landing in Moscow on November 8. Bloomberg reports that Trump’s social media postings and flight records indicate that Trump did spend the night before the pageant, November 9, in Moscow:
According to Bloomberg, Trump’s plane did depart on the night of the pageant itself, November 10, around 3:58 AM Moscow time, and touched down the same morning at Newark Liberty International around 4:11 AM EST. And that night, at 6:44 PM EST, Trump tweeted this:
Bloomberg says that the Trump Organization and the White House didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

As Think Progress noted last week, Trump’s version of events directly contradicted that of his bodyguard, Keith Schiller, in sworn testimony that Schiller gave to Congress. Per NBC News’ sources, that testimony said:

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Lol, the scumbag didn't simply say, I never banged 5 hookers(4, maybe?), he said it was impossible because he didn't spend the night in Russia. Now, it turns out that he even lied about THAT, so, connect the dots, Righty Scum...

https://splinternews.com/trump-reportedly-lied-to-james-comey-about-that-2013-mi-1825485613Trump Reportedly Lied to James Comey About That 2013 Miss Universe Trip

Paul Blest Today 8:49pmFiled to: Donald Trump

Amid news that his confirmation hearing has been postponed, CBS News’ Steve Dorsey reported on Twitter that White House physician and Donald Trump’s Veterans Affairs head nominee Ronny Jackson has been accused of improper conduct that includes “drinking on the job.”
According to Dorsey, two sources close to the matter told CBS reporters the committee “is reviewing allegations against Ronny Jackson which include a hostile work environment, excessive drinking on the job and improperly dispensing meds.”

Dorsey noted that Sen. John Tester (D-MT), the leading Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, was the one who asked to postpone Jackson’s Wednesday hearing in light of the allegations. In an interview with The Washington Post before the allegations were made public, Tester said the committee is “doing our job to make sure he’s fit for the job.”
CNN’s Manu Raju noted that both Republicans and Democrats privately mused that the White House “appears to have done a shoddy job vetting Jackson.”





The memos of former FBI director James Comey which leaked last week provided two separate instances of President Donald Trump denying that he stayed in Moscow overnight during his infamous 2013 Miss Universe trip. A a new report from Bloomberg contradicts those claims.

“He said he arrived in the morning, did events, then showered and dressed for the pageant at the hotel (he didn’t say the hotel name) and left for the pageant,” Comey wrote of a dinner at the White House on January 27, 2017. “Afterwards, he returned only to get his things because they departed for New York by plane that same night.” Less than two weeks later, Comey wrote after a meeting on February 8: “He then explained, as he did at our dinner, that he hadn’t stayed overnight in Russia during the Miss Universe trip.”





According to Bloomberg’s reporting, however, flight records show that Trump flew on a private jet owned by business associate Phil Ruffin from Asheville to Moscow on November 7, landing in Moscow on November 8. Bloomberg reports that Trump’s social media postings and flight records indicate that Trump did spend the night before the pageant, November 9, in Moscow:

Trump surfaced online later that day in a Facebook post by the restaurant Nobu Moscow. That night he attended a birthday party for [developer and pageant host Aras] Agalarov.
The next day, Saturday, Nov. 9, Facebook posts showed Trump at the Ritz during the day, and in the afternoon he tweeted that he’d gotten a tour of Moscow. That evening, he attended the Miss Universe pageant, followed by an after-party whose scheduled start time was 1 a.m. — by that time, Sunday, Nov. 10. American rock band Panic! at the Disco, which had performed at the pageant, put on a second set for the 1,200 after-party attendees.

At this point, the flight records support a narrow slice of what Trump told Comey: On the night of the pageant itself, the plane Trump was said to be using didn’t fully overnight in Russia. Ruffin’s Bombardier took off from Vnukovo airport at 3:58 a.m. Moscow time, the records show.
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According to Bloomberg, Trump’s plane did depart on the night of the pageant itself, November 10, around 3:58 AM Moscow time, and touched down the same morning at Newark Liberty International around 4:11 AM EST. And that night, at 6:44 PM EST, Trump tweeted this:
Bloomberg says that the Trump Organization and the White House didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

As Think Progress noted last week, Trump’s version of events directly contradicted that of his bodyguard, Keith Schiller, in sworn testimony that Schiller gave to Congress. Per NBC News’ sources, that testimony said:

The two sources said Schiller’s comments came in the context of him adamantly disputing the allegations made in the Trump dossier, written by a former British intelligence operative, which describes Trump having an encounter with prostitutes at the hotel during the pageant. Schiller described his reaction to that story as being, “Oh my God, that’s bull——,” two sources said.
The conversation with the Russian about the five women took place after a morning meeting about the pageant in Moscow broke up, two sources said.
That night, two sources said, Schiller said he discussed the conversation with Trump as Trump was walking back to his hotel room, and Schiller said the two men laughed about it as Trump went to bed alone. Schiller testified that he stood outside Trump’s hotel room for a time and then went to bed.

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Trump’s false claims to Comey about Moscow stay could aid Mueller(lol, keep on lyin' Scumbag)

James Comey says the president told him that he never spent the night in Moscow in 2013, but flight records, social media and his bodyguard's testimony show otherwise.

By BEN SCHRECKINGER
04/23/2018 06:09 PM EDT

ov and Emin Agalarov attend the red carpet at Miss Universe Pageant Competition 2013 on November 9, 2013 in Moscow. | Victor Boyko/Getty Images



By Jennifer Palmieri

Late last January, at a private White House dinner attended only by Donald Trump and Jim Comey, the president steered the conversation to a sensitive topic: “the golden showers thing.” He wanted the then-FBI director to know, Comey later wrote in a memo, that not only did he not consort with hookers in a Moscow hotel room in 2013, it was an impossibility. Trump “had spoken to people who had been on… the trip with him and they had reminded him that he didn’t stay over night in Russia for that," Comey recalled.

Trump made the same claim a second time, telling Comey in a later Oval Office meeting "that he hadn’t stayed overnight in Russia during the Miss Universe trip,” as Comey wrote.

But flight records obtained by POLITICO, as well as congressional testimony from Trump's bodyguard and contemporaneous photographs and social media posts, tell a different story—one that might bring new legal jeopardy for the president, legal experts say.

In fact, Trump arrived in Moscow, where he attended the Miss Universe pageant, which he owned at the time, on a Friday. He left in the early morning hours the following Sunday—spending one full night and most of a second one in the Russian capital—in contradiction to the recollections of Comey, who wrote about his early 2017 meetings with Trump minutes after they concluded.
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A conscious effort by Trump to mislead the FBI director could lend weight to the allegation—contained in a largely unverified private research dossier compiled by a former British spy in 2016—that Trump engaged in compromising activity during the trip that exposed him to Russian government blackmail.

It has also likely caught the eye of special counsel Robert Mueller, legal analysts say. False statements to Comey about the trip could demonstrate that Trump has “consciousness of guilt,” according Pete Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor who worked for special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation of national security-related leaks during the George W. Bush administration.

That could bolster a legal case against Trump. Although many analysts doubt that Mueller has the legal authority to indict a sitting president, Trump's assertions could factor into any written report from Mueller that might draw conclusions about whether Trump sought to obstruct justice or colluded with the Kremlin, and which could be transmitted by the Justice Department to Congress.
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Prosecutors “would argue that it shows he’s afraid of the truth,” Zeidenberg said.

He suggested that investigators could also probe whether Trump had in fact conferred with others who “reminded” him he did not stay the night in Russia, as he apparently told Comey he did.

“It’s very likely there would be no corroboration for that story, which makes the whole thing look like a big fat lie,” Zeidenberg said.
Donald Trump is pictured. | AP Photo

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By ANDREW RESTUCCIA

Neither Trump’s lawyer, Jay Sekulow, nor the White House press office responded to emails requesting comment.

Federal Aviation Administration flight records obtained by POLITICO show Trump touched down at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport on the afternoon of Friday, November 8, staying over Friday night and most of Saturday night before departing from Moscow in the early morning hours on Sunday.

The New York Times first reported last year that Trump traveled to Moscow on a plane owned by his friend Phil Ruffin, a casino magnate. POLITICO has obtained flight records for a Bombardier Global Express jet owned by Ruffin Development Expositions that match Trump’s movements during the period he was traveling to and from Moscow.

Michelle Knoll, a spokeswoman for Ruffin, confirmed Trump used that aircraft for his trip. Ruffin also attended the Miss Universe pageant, flying in and out separately on another private aircraft he owns.

On the morning of Wednesday, November 6, the plane used by Trump traveled from Las Vegas to Asheville, North Carolina, arriving late in the afternoon.

A photograph published on the late Billy Graham’s website shows Trump attending Graham’s 95th birthday celebration in Asheville the next day—Thursday, November 7. Ruffin’s jet, carrying Trump, departed from Asheville that night and arrived in Moscow on Friday afternoon.

In addition to flight records, social media posts attest to Trump’s activities in Moscow.

“Meanwhile Donald Trump @RealDonaldTrump has arrived! You’re are welcome! #missuniverse,” Yulya Alferova, who describes herself as an adviser to Russia’s minister of economic development, tweeted on Friday, November 8. Later that weekend, Alferova posted photos on Instagram of herself meeting with Trump and attending the Miss Universe pageant. She did not respond to questions sent via Instagram message.

Also on that Friday, the upscale restaurant Nobu Moscow posted on Facebook a photo of Trump and one of his Russian business partners, Emin Agalarov, standing outside the restaurant.

And a Twitter account dedicated to Olivia Culpo—the beauty pageant's 2012 winner—posted a photo of Culpo, Trump and the singer Nick Jonas that same day. The tweet said that the photo was taken at Crocus City Mall, part of a multi-use Moscow development owned by the Agalarovs that hosted the next day’s pageant.

Late last January, at a private White House dinner attended only by Donald Trump and Jim Comey, the president steered the conversation to a sensitive topic: “the golden showers thing.” He wanted the then-FBI director to know, Comey later wrote in a memo, that not only did he not consort with hookers in a Moscow hotel room in 2013, it was an impossibility. Trump “had spoken to people who had been on… the trip with him and they had reminded him that he didn’t stay over night in Russia for that," Comey recalled.
Trump made the same claim a second time, telling Comey in a later Oval Office meeting "that he hadn’t stayed overnight in Russia during the Miss Universe trip,” as Comey wrote.



But flight records obtained by POLITICO, as well as congressional testimony from Trump's bodyguard and contemporaneous photographs and social media posts, tell a different story—one that might bring new legal jeopardy for the president, legal experts say.
In fact, Trump arrived in Moscow, where he attended the Miss Universe pageant, which he owned at the time, on a Friday. He left in the early morning hours the following Sunday—spending one full night and most of a second one in the Russian capital—in contradiction to the recollections of Comey, who wrote about his early 2017 meetings with Trump minutes after they concluded.

A conscious effort by Trump to mislead the FBI director could lend weight to the allegation—contained in a largely unverified private research dossier compiled by a former British spy in 2016—that Trump engaged in compromising activity during the trip that exposed him to Russian government blackmail.
It has also likely caught the eye of special counsel Robert Mueller, legal analysts say. False statements to Comey about the trip could demonstrate that Trump has “consciousness of guilt,” according Pete Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor who worked for special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation of national security-related leaks during the George W. Bush administration.
That could bolster a legal case against Trump. Although many analysts doubt that Mueller has the legal authority to indict a sitting president, Trump's assertions could factor into any written report from Mueller that might draw conclusions about whether Trump sought to obstruct justice or colluded with the Kremlin, and which could be transmitted by the Justice Department to Congress.

That could bolster a legal case against Trump. Although many analysts doubt that Mueller has the legal authority to indict a sitting president, Trump's assertions could factor into any written report from Mueller that might draw conclusions about whether Trump sought to obstruct justice or colluded with the Kremlin, and which could be transmitted by the Justice Department to Congress.
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Prosecutors “would argue that it shows he’s afraid of the truth,” Zeidenberg said.
He suggested that investigators could also probe whether Trump had in fact conferred with others who “reminded” him he did not stay the night in Russia, as he apparently told Comey he did.
“It’s very likely there would be no corroboration for that story, which makes the whole thing look like a big fat lie,” Zeidenberg said.

White House
Trump lashes out as legal risks pile up

By ANDREW RESTUCCIA

Neither Trump’s lawyer, Jay Sekulow, nor the White House press office responded to emails requesting comment.
Federal Aviation Administration flight records obtained by POLITICO show Trump touched down at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport on the afternoon of Friday, November 8, staying over Friday night and most of Saturday night before departing from Moscow in the early morning hours on Sunday.
The New York Times first reported last year that Trump traveled to Moscow on a plane owned by his friend Phil Ruffin, a casino magnate. POLITICO has obtained flight records for a Bombardier Global Express jet owned by Ruffin Development Expositions that match Trump’s movements during the period he was traveling to and from Moscow.
Michelle Knoll, a spokeswoman for Ruffin, confirmed Trump used that aircraft for his trip. Ruffin also attended the Miss Universe pageant, flying in and out separately on another private aircraft he owns.
On the morning of Wednesday, November 6, the plane used by Trump traveled from Las Vegas to Asheville, North Carolina, arriving late in the afternoon.
A photograph published on the late Billy Graham’s website shows Trump attending Graham’s 95[SUP]th[/SUP] birthday celebration in Asheville the next day—Thursday, November 7. Ruffin’s jet, carrying Trump, departed from Asheville that night and arrived in Moscow on Friday afternoon.
In addition to flight records, social media posts attest to Trump’s activities in Moscow.
“Meanwhile Donald Trump @RealDonaldTrump has arrived! You’re are welcome! #missuniverse,” Yulya Alferova, who describes herself as an adviser to Russia’s minister of economic development, tweeted on Friday, November 8. Later that weekend, Alferova posted photos on Instagram of herself meeting with Trump and attending the Miss Universe pageant. She did not respond to questions sent via Instagram message.
Also on that Friday, the upscale restaurant Nobu Moscow posted on Facebook a photo of Trump and one of his Russian business partners, Emin Agalarov, standing outside the restaurant.
And a Twitter account dedicated to Olivia Culpo—the beauty pageant's 2012 winner—posted a photo of Culpo, Trump and the singer Nick Jonas that same day. The tweet said that the photo was taken at Crocus City Mall, part of a multi-use Moscow development owned by the Agalarovs that hosted the next day’s pageant.