This is a quote read by Rachel Maddow from Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty" by James Comey.
-----"The Italian Mafia as noted earlier, called itself La Cosa Nostra--"this thing of ours"-- and always drew a line between someone who was a "friend of yours", meaning someone outside the family, and someone who was a "Friend of ours" meaning an official member of the family.
I sat there thinking, Holy Crap, they are trying to make each one of us an "amica nostra"--a friend of ours. To draw us in. As crazy as it sounds, I suddenly had the feeling that, in the blink of an eye, the president-elect was trying to make us all a part of the same family and that Team Trump had made it a "Thing of ours."
For my entire career, intelligence was a thing of mine and political spin a thing of yours. Team Trump wanted to change that. I should have said something right then. -------We had just served up "The Russians tried to get you elected."
Should I now give them a lecture about how to behave with us? And when I'm about to have a private session with the president elect to talk about Russian Hookers?
Nope. Don't think so. So I said nothing. And nobody else did either. Nobody on the Trump team thought to say, "Hey, maybe this is a conversation for later," or "perhaps we should move on Mt. President Elect." end quote.
Now we go to the part where Comey has to tell Trump about the Steele Dossier where Trump supposedly had Russian hookers pee on Obama's and Michelle's bed when they stayed in this same room before in the hotel.
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------"He replied that the people of the FBI "really like you" and expressed his hope taht I woudl stay on as director. I replied, "I intend to sir." Though it might have been the polite or obvious thing to say to ingratiate myself with the president elect, I didn't thank him for saying this, because I already had the job, for a stated 10 year term, and didn't want it to appear as if I needed to reapply.-----------
After Trump finished with his opening monologue, which lasted for a minute or so, I explained the nature of the material i was about to discuss and why we thought it important he nkow about it.
I then began to summarize the allegation in the dossier that he had been with prostitutes in a moscow Hotel in 2013 and that the Russians had filmed the episode. I didn't mention one particular allegation in the dossier that he was having prostitutes urinate on each ohter on the very bed President Obama and the first lady had once slept in as a way of soiling the bed.
I figured that single detail was not necessary to put him on notice about the material. This whole thing was weird enough. As I spoke, I felt a strange out of body experience, as if I was watching myself speak to the new president about prostitutes in Russia. Before I finished, Trump interrupted sharply with a dismissive tone. he was eager to protest that the allegations weren't true.
I explained that I wasn't saying the FBI believed the allegations. We simply thought it was important that he know they were out there and being widely circulated. I added that one of the FBI's jobs is to protect the presidency from any kind of coercion, and whether or not the allegations were true, it was important to know Russians might be saying such things.
I stressed that we did not want to keep information from him, particularly given that the press was about to report it. he again strongly denied the allegations, asking rhetorically, I assumed whether he seemed like a guy who needed the services of prostitutes. He then began discussing cases where women had accused him of sexual assault, a subject I had not raised. he mentioned a number of women, and seemed to have memorized their allegations." end quote
Rachel Maddow got an early version of the book and read this blistering excerpt from the book by Comey on thursday April 12th 2018 on her show on MSNBC in the U.S. even though the book won't be released until next Tuesday.
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