Originally Posted by TampaToker

Memo leaked to ny times on may 11 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/u...g.html?mcubz=1


May 12 Trump tweets about tapes https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/...07411132649473


Now here is Comeys testimony:

COLLINS: Finally, did you show copies of your memos to anyone outside of the department of justice?

COMEY: Yes.

COLLINS: And to whom did you show copies?

COMEY: I asked — the president tweeted on Friday after I got fired that I better hope there's not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night because it didn't dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation. There might a tape. My judgment was, I need to get that out into the public square. I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons. I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. I asked a close friend to do it."