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Vanity Fair / Joel Simon / Aug 28, 2024
“In February 2017, just a month into his presidency, Donald Trump asked to meet alone with FBI director James Comey in the Oval Office…[Trump] floated another idea: Why not jail journalists who leak classified information? ‘They spend a couple days in jail, make a new friend, and they are ready to talk,’ Trump supposedly said, according to Comey’s notes on the conversation. Comey laughed. But Trump wasn’t joking.”
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