Maxine Waters: ‘This Country Is in a Crisis — We Have a President That’s a Liar’

Friday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was lying about his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey.

Waters said, “Well, I do think that Comey has a tendency to fumble, and it seems as if he has a difficult time really making a decision and using the best judgment. However, the president is lying. The president absolutely asked him to discontinue his investigation into Flynn in the way that he did. Also, I don’t believe that there are any tapes, and that’s why the president is saying he is willing to come and testify and to tell his version of what went on.”

“But don’t forget in that one meeting, he put everybody out of the room, and he did that for a reason,” she continued. “He didn’t want other people to know exactly what he was saying, interfering in the investigation. And so if there are tapes, you can believe they won’t see the light of day because now what the president is setting up is a he said/he said. And it’s a matter of trying to get to who is telling the truth. But I believe on this one, Comey is telling the truth, and the president is absolutely lying that he tried to get him to back off of the investigation of Michael Flynn. I believe that.”

See added, “I’ve got to have hope that we’re going to get to the bottom of this. This country is in a crisis. We have a president that’s a liar, that cannot be trusted, who is causing a lot of heartache to many Americans because they’ve never seen anything like this man before.”

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