-—He said he thought maybe he should ask me to i :vestiga to the whole thing to prove it was a lie. I did not ask any questions.i replied; that it was up to him. but i wouldn?t want to create a narrative that we were investigating him, because we are not and worried such a thing would be misconstrued. I also said that it is very difficult to disprove a lie.-—
His memo is above, my interpretation is below.
Trump said he thought maybe he should ask me to investigate the whole thing to prove it was a lie. I did not ask any
questions. i replied; that it was up to him. but i wouldn?t want to create a narrative that we were investigating him, because we are not and I worried such a thing would be misconstrued. I also said that it is very difficult to disprove a lie.
—His concern is touching... but untrue since they used the dossier to get a fisa.
Wondering if these were written in early 2017 or were they written very recently. Because they read as the opposite of what Comey's actions have been, as if they were written by him after the fact as CYA.