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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Denton Record-Chronicle
Memo: Trump asked Comey to end Flynn probe
House said in a statement.
Trump abruptly fired Comey
last week, saying he did so based
on his very public handling of
the Hillary Clinton email probe.
But the White House has
provided differing accounts of
the firing.
And lawmakers have alleged
that the sudden ouster was an
attempt to stifle the bureau’s in-
vestigation into Trump associ-
ates’ ties to Russia’s alleged med-
dling in the 2016 presidential
election.
Comey’s memo detailing his
conversation with Trump would
be the clearest proof to date that
the president has tried to influ-
ence that investigation. The
Times said it was part of a paper
trail Comey created document-
ing what he saw as Trump’s ef-
forts to improperly interfere in
the ongoing probe.
The Justice Department de-
clined to comment.
According to the Times, Co-
mey wrote in the February
Flynn.
in,” Graham told reporters, add-
ing, “If he felt confident enough
to write it down, he should come
in and tell us about it.”
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-
Calif., said Comey needs to come
to Capitol Hill and testily.
Sen. Mark Warner of Virgin-
ia, the top Democrat on the Sen-
ate Intelligence Committee, said
he will ask Comey for additional
material as part of the panel’s in-
vestigation. “Memos, tran-
scripts, tapes — the list keeps
getting longer,” he said.
Democratic Sen. Chris Mur-
phy of Connecticut tweeted:
“Just leaving Senate floor. Lots of
chatter from Ds and Rs about
the exact definition of ‘obstruc-
tion of justice.’”
There is no sign the FBI’s
Russia investigation is closing.
Acting FBI Director Andrew
McCabe told Congress last week
the investigation is “highly sig-
nificant” and said Comey’s dis-
missal would do nothing to im-
pede the probe.
By Eric Tucker
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - FBI Di-
rector James Comey wrote in a
memo that President Donald
Trump had asked him to shut
down an FBI investigation into
ousted national security adviser
Michael Flynn, a person familiar
with the situation told The Asso-
ciated Press Tuesday.
The person had seen the
memo but was not authorized to
discuss it by name and spoke on
condition of anonymity. The ex-
istence of the memo was first re-
ported Tuesday by The New
York Times.
The White House denied the
On Tuesday, for the second
night in a row, Senate Republi-
cans and Democrats were
caught off-guard as they entered
the chamber for a scheduled
vote.
“I don’t know the facts, so I
really want to wait until I find
out what the facts are before
commenting,” Sen. John
Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters.
Asked if it would be obstruct-
ing justice for Trump to have
asked Comey to drop the Flynn
investigation, Cornyn said: “You
know, that’s a very serious
charge. I wouldn’t want to an-
swer a hypothetical question.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-
S.C., emphatically said he’s not
commenting on news stories
anymore.
“Let’s get to the bottom of
what happened with the direc-
tor. And the best way to get to
the bottom of it, is for him to tes-
tify. ... I’m not going to take a
memo, I want the guy to come
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President Donald Trump listens as Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White
House in Washington on Tuesday.
report.
‘While the President has re-
peatedly expressed his view that
General Flynn is a decent man
who served and protected our
country, the President has never
asked Mr. Comey or anyone else
to end any investigation, includ-
ing any investigation involving
General Flynn,” the White
memo that Trump told him was in the Oval Office that day
Flynn had done nothing wrong, with other national security offi-
But Comey did not say anything cials for a terrorism threat brief-
to Trump about limiting the in- ing. When that ended, Trump
vestigation, replying, “I agree he asked everyone to leave except
is a good guy.” Comey, and he eventually
The newspaper said Comey turned the conversation to
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Charleston, but he did not allow
copies to be made for viewing
outside the courthouse.
The videos reinforced Roof’s
quirks — his abrupt changes in
conversation topics, jokes made
with no changes in tone or facial
expression to indicate he was
kidding and his insistence there
was something physically wrong
with him even after doctors
ruled it out.
The videos also show Roof’s
struggles with empathy.
During a visit just before his
trial began, Roof told his father
he was thinking about doing
something even worse than the
church massacre. His dad, who
mostly joked about the govern-
ment wasting money and the
media coverage of the case,
teared up.
“Please don’t do anything
stupid. You’ve already done
enough,” he said, walking away
from the video camera. He
stepped back, adding “You know
that everything you’ve done is a
reflection on us as a family.
Don’t be a (expletive) dumbass.”
Psychiatrist Donna Maddox,
in one of four evaluations of
Roof, noted that he turned to the
internet to solve his problems
and shape his worldview.
By Jeffrey Collins
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A
week before the sentencing
phase of his trial, Dylann Roof
got a visit in jail from his mother,
who pleaded with him to recon-
sider his decision to act as his
own lawyer in the fatal shootings
of nine black worshippers at a
South Carolina church.
But Roof was more con-
cerned with the clothes he
would wear to court. Since he
could not have his first choice of
his comfortable jail jumpsuit, he
wanted two-tone gray pants, in-
seam 29, not 30, so they
wouldn’t hang over his shoes.
He also wanted thicker sweat-
ers. And he wanted his lawyers
at the defense table for one rea-
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In this Saturday, Lil Miss Hot Mess compares outfits with 2-
year old Eva Mclnnes after reading to a group of children dur-
ing the Feminist Press’ presentation of Drag Queen Story
Hour at the Park Slope Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library,
in New York.
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Dylann Roof enters the court room at the Charleston County
Judicial Center to enter his guilty plea on murder charges in
Charleston, S.C., on April 10.
Drag queens, kids
join for story hour
On the videos, Roof did not
mention anything about the
nine people he killed in the 2015
massacre at Emanuel AME
church in Charleston, where he
fired 77 shots in the fellowship
hall after spending 45 minutes
in a Bible study.
He was sentenced to death in
January on federal hate-crime
and
charges. He did not want the re-
cordings made public and fired
his lawyers to prevent them
from presenting the videos to a
jury as part of his defense.
The conversations took place
at the Charleston County jail on
a video conferencing system
similar to a Skype call. Roof
could see his family and they
could see him on small screens.
They spoke into a phone receiv-
raved about the grits for break-
fast and the chicken breast for
dinner and complained that he
got the high-protein tray for din-
ner and had to eat meatballs for
40 days in a row.
The tapes were presented by
Roof’s attorneys in a closed
hearing as they unsuccessfully
argued that he was not compe-
tent to stand trial.
U.S. District Judge Richard
Gergel ruled they could be
watched at the courthouse in
“So I can abuse them,” Roof
said with an awkward laugh in
one of four jailhouse videos re-
leased Tuesday by federal court
officials.
In the nearly three hours of
footage from family visits, Roof
laughed at his dad’s jokes, tried
to trick his mom into thinking
he had tinsel and a stocking in
his cell for Christmas and told
his half-sister he would invite
her to his execution.
He also upbraided his mom
for feeding his cats too many
treats and told his dad not to be-
lieve all of Donald Trump’s
promises now that he’s presi-
dent.
putting on an outfit that includ-
ed a silver sequin dress with
rainbows, blue and silver glitter
eyeshadow and an enormous
wig of curly blond hair. The As-
sociated Press agreed not to use
the performer’s legal name be-
cause of fears of harassment.
“It’s great that it teaches them
self-acceptance in a very general
way,” she said of the program,
which got its start in San Fran-
cisco.
By Deepti Hajela
Associated Press
NEW YORK - It takes a
certain something to be a good
storyteller: enthusiasm, timing
and a flair for the dramatic. Per-
formers at a children’s story
hour at a New York City library
have all that and then some —
they’re drag queens.
About once a month since
last fall, the Brooklyn Public li-
brary has been presenting Drag
Queen Story Hour, where per-
formers with names such as Lil
Miss Hot Mess and Ona Louise
regale an audience of young
children and their parents.
There’s even a drag-queen ver-
sion of ‘Wheels on the Bus” in
which lil Miss Hot Mess sings
of hips that go “swish, swish,
swish” and heels that go “higher,
higher, higher.”
“Drag queens and children
don’t usually get together, which
I think is a shame and one of the
benefits of a program like this,”
lil Miss Hot Mess said while
obstruction-of-religion
At the most recent story
hour, children ranging from in-
fants to preschoolers heard
about Penelope the hippo, the
main character in You’re Wear-
ing THAT to School?! by Lynn
Plourde, which explores ideas of
fitting in versus standing out.
Kesa Huey and Sarah Baratti
were among the parents who
brought their children to the
event, and they were glad they
did. “I think we’re just looking
for exposure to positive role
models in as many forms as pos-
sible,” Huey said.
He even cried, convinced he
had syphilis despite extensive
examinations by doctors. Re-
cently released court papers in-
dicate that the 23-year-old told a
psychologist that he never had a
girlfriend.
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