And as a prelude to that event there has been a veritable tidal wave of breaking news stories which paint a very troubling picture for one Donald J. Trump.
First up, Trump's a liar.
Courtesy of CNN:
In his much-anticipated congressional testimony on Thursday, fired FBI Director James Comey will dispute President Donald Trump's interpretation of their conversations, according to sources familiar with Comey's thinking.
Trump has made a blanket claim that Comey told him multiple times that he was not under investigation.
But one source said Comey is expected to explain to senators that those were much more nuanced conversations from which Trump concluded that he was not under investigation. Another source hinted that the President may have misunderstood the exact meaning of Comey's words, especially regarding the FBI's ongoing counterintelligence investigation.
He misunderstood nothing, Trump simply lied. There is no longer any reason to give him the benefit of the doubt about anything.
And if Trump attempts to refute Comey's testimony he should know that the former FBI Director has back up:
One by one this winter, then-FBI Director James B. Comey pulled aside three of the bureau’s top officials for private chats. In calm tones, he told each of them about a private Oval Office meeting with President Trump — during which, Comey alleged, the president pressed him to shut down the federal criminal investigation of Trump’s then-national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Those three officials, according to two people with detailed, firsthand knowledge of the matter, were Jim Rybicki, Comey’s chief of staff and senior counselor; James Baker, the FBI’s general counsel; and Andrew McCabe, then the bureau’s deputy director, and now the acting director, following Trump’s firing of Comey last month. Comey spoke to them within two days of his Oval conversation with Trump, the sources said, and recounted the president’s comments about the Flynn investigation.
As noted by Vox all three of these men are lawyers so of course they took notes of the conversation.
But wait, there's more courtesy of WaPo:
The nation’s top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials.
Ouch!
But wait there is even more, this time courtesy of the New York Times:
The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mr. Comey confronted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and said he did not want to be left alone again with the president, according to current and former law enforcement officials.
Mr. Comey believed Mr. Sessions should protect the F.B.I. from White House influence, the officials said, and pulled him aside after a meeting in February to tell him that private interactions between the F.B.I. director and the president were inappropriate. But Mr. Sessions could not guarantee that the president would not try to talk to Mr. Comey alone again, the officials said.
The Times does not identify what it was about his meeting that freaked Comey out so much, but I think we can imagine.
So yes tomorrow is going to be a very interesting day, but just what we have learned in the last twenty four hours is more than enough to start a serious conversation about impeachment.
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