"Remember how I said that the hopeless confusion Tyler Lemons exhibited in his response to Comey's motion to dismiss for vindictive and selective prosecution showed why Comey was right to request a Bill of Particulars? In that filing, Lemons played games with transcripts, confused what was a Clinton investigation, what a Russian investigation not yet focused on Trump, and what was, instead, inaccurate propaganda from John Solomon?"
"After Lemons spent 15 pages of last week's vindictive prosecution response - laying out (A) November 2016 communications between Jim Comey and Dan Richman leading to this story, (B) February 2017 communications with Chuck Rosenberg leading to this story, and (C) May 2017 communications between Dan Richman and Mike Schmidt leading to this story, as well as presenting (D) a wildly misleading story about the "Clinton Plan," the Gabriel[s] spent five pages throwing half that out."
Tyler Lemons' filing showed confusion and mischaracterization regarding communications and investigations tied to Comey. Lemons conflated Clinton-related materials, an early Russian inquiry not focused on Trump, and inaccurate John Solomon propaganda. Loaner AUSA Gabriel Diaz filed response memos that removed or discarded significant portions of Lemons' prior assertions. Items (B) and (C) were omitted, possibly because Dan Richman had left the FBI before those communications or because of a potential attorney-client breach. Lemons had argued that publicly available transcripts contained minor inaccuracies; the filing notes non-substantive transcript corrections to Senator Grassley's and Senator Cruz's questions and answers.
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