Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Thursday slammed ex-FBI Director James Comey for his denials that he leaked a memo to an FBI consultant to give to the press, calling him a liar.
"All of it is a lie," Lewandowski told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" about the comments Comey made Wednesday night, during a CNN town hall.
"This is the most important thing that the American people have to remember. When you are an FBI agent, not just the head of the FBI but an FBI agent, you sign a form that says I will not leak any information I've obtained as a member of the FBI without the written authorization of my supervisor."
Comey's written authorization would have had to come from his supervisor, either Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, or President Donald Trump, said Lewandowski.
"Jim Comey has now admitted both under oath and in public that he has taken information he received as the director of the FBI and gave it to a media outlet with the explicit indication that he wanted that in the public domain," said Lewandowski. "There has been no accountability for Jim Comey whatsoever. For not at minimum breaking FBI protocols but very likely he gave away classified information when he wasn't allowed to do it."
Comey's explicit goal, said Lewandowski, was to make sure information about his meeting with Trump was put out into the public domain in order to put pressure on Sessions to recuse himself. After that happened, special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to examine Russian activities during Trump's election.
Meanwhile, Comey interviewed several people in connection with Hillary Clinton, said Lewandowski, but never took any memos from those meetings.
"All of a sudden, he feels such a compelling incident where the first time he supposedly meets with President Trump," said Lewandowski. "He relays information about a false dossier, forgets to remind the president it was actually paid for by the president's political operatives, opponents here, and says that really wasn't my job. I'm going to go back and take a memo and write this for future use. Look, Jim Comey is a bad guy. What is he doing right now is profiteering off his tenure in the government."
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