Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks it's "weird" that former FBI Director James Comey would leak memos recounting his conversations with President Trump. "It sounds very strange when the head of the security services writes down a conversation with the commander-in-chief and then leaks it to the media through his friend," Putin said Thursday during a live call-in show, as he dismissed Comey's assertion that Russia definitely interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Comey, during his congressional testimony last week, admitted that he'd passed memos recounting each of his one-on-one conversations with Trump along to a friend to leak to the media. He said he leaked the memos because he "thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel"; the Justice Department appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller not long after the Comey memos surfaced.
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