Read Comey's statement: Trump said, 'I need loyalty. I expect loyalty,' then awkward silence

[JamesBean]

@Sludge

Wow, that prepared statement reads like he’s being set up for Trump’s post-presidential Art Of The Deal sequel:

Playing Who Wrote it — Comey’s statement or Kazuo Ishiguro in The Remains of the Day?

1. “It turned out to be just the two of us, seated at a small oval table in the center of the Green Room. Two Navy stewards waited on us, only entering the room to serve food and drinks.”

2. “There was not a soul to be seen… apart from a hammering noise echoing from somewhere distant, and an occasional coughing in a room to the back of the house.”

3. “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. The conversation then moved on, but he returned to the subject near the end of our dinner.”

4. “The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. ’It’s rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,’ I said. ‘But I suspect it comes down to not removing one’s clothing in public.’”

5. “He said he had nothing to do with Russia, had not been involved with hookers in Russia, and had always assumed he was being recorded when in Russia.”

6. “By the very nature of a witticism, one is given very little time to assess its various possible repercussions before one is called to give voice to it, and one gravely risks uttering all manner of unsuitable things if one has not first acquired the necessary skill and experience.”

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