WaPo:
The world waited nearly a day before the tweet finally came.
All day Thursday, many people expected President Trump to weigh in but he had nothing to say — on his preferred medium of Twitter or anywhere else. He let others do his talking.
During James B. Comey’s extraordinary Senate testimony, it was Donald Trump Jr., the president’s 39-year-old son, who played his father’s usual role of Twitter foil, firing off snarky put-downs.
“Is this a joke?” Trump Jr. asked at one point.
It then fell to Marc Kasowitz, the president’s personal lawyer, to deliver Trump’s formal response: a scathing, pugnacious rebuttal declaring the president’s innocence, implying that Comey lied under oath and labeling the former FBI director a “leaker.”
Trump let Kasowitz have the last word — at least for the moment.
Friday morning he finally took to Twitter, posting, “Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication…and WOW, Comey is a leaker!”
Earlier in the week the president had been spoiling for a fight with Comey, but he was convinced by Kasowitz and his senior aides to stay cool and lie low, according to about a dozen White House officials and other Republicans close to Trump, some of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy.
“The best thing said on this is nothing,” said former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Trump friend and former Justice Department official. “Kasowitz, who is a fine lawyer, answered it — and I know from personal experience that he has the president’s trust.”
Kasowitz and White House advisers, including Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Counsel Donald F. McGahn, argued to Trump that they had a rapid-response operation in place Thursday to defend him as vociferously as he would defend himself, according to people familiar with the discussions.
“Kasowitz was able to persuade the president that he would not give a Washington-style, tepid defense,” said a top Republican figure who is close to the White House. “Trump’s big charge with his staff is that they don’t defend him aggressively. And Kasowitz convinced him that not only will I defend you, but I will attack Comey where there’s room to.”
Did you see President Trump at the US/Romanian joint press conference?
He didn’t pull punches at all.
He knows he’s won.
There is only one WH individual who is even going to be talked to by any investigators: Jared Kushner.
And Jared is NOT under investigation or even under suspicion.
They only want to talk to him.
No one else.
It was killing them lol