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Comey Delivers Political Gut Punch to President Trump
MSN News ^ | March 20, 2017 | Mark Murray

Posted on 03/20/2017 4:20:11 PM PDT by detective

At the outset of a pivotal week in Washington, FBI Director James Comey delivered a political gut-punch to President Donald Trump Monday — and the news possibly could get worse for the president in the days and weeks ahead.

In sworn testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey said there was no evidence to Trump's claims that Barack Obama wiretapped him and Trump Tower, as the current president alleged in a series of tweets earlier this month. And he confirmed that his agency was investigating the 2016 Trump campaign's links with Russia's effort to intervene in the presidential election.

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To: detective

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveillance-powers-his-way-out


41 posted on 03/20/2017 4:39:20 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: detective

The headline should read “Comey delivers gut punch to MSM.”

They reported the surveillance and wiretapping over and over for months.


42 posted on 03/20/2017 4:39:26 PM PDT by kabar
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To: detective
omey Delivers Political Gut Punch to President Trump


Comey did no such thing.

He verified that they have nothing on President Trump.

He and Adm Rodgers both defended their own agencies by testifying that they have no evidence as of yet that anyone in their organizations was responsible for abusing FISA or spying.

So either it was some other agency, i.e. CIA, DIA or Team Obama that broke the law, or some rouge agents in their own organizations were on the hook.

Basically , Comey and Rodgers testified that they were personally clean, Trump was clean and President Obama was clean as far as they could tell.

Next step is unmasking the perps.

43 posted on 03/20/2017 4:39:40 PM PDT by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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To: detective
In sworn testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey said there was no evidence to Trump's claims that Barack Obama wiretapped him and Trump Tower ...

He said he saw no evidence. That doesn't necessarily mean it didn't happen.

Either he might not be telling the truth or another agency might have been recording calls.

It's also possible that they listened in to Trump staffers calls to people they were wiretapping.

I don't know what happened, but people who believe something happened aren't going to unbelieve because of anything Comey said, so it's hardly a "gut punch."

44 posted on 03/20/2017 4:40:49 PM PDT by x
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To: detective

Yeah, right...that’s why President Trump has been tweeting part of Comey’s testimony all day long. People are so dumb.


45 posted on 03/20/2017 4:40:50 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“Comey has the goods on the Clintons AND the Obamas..and the Obamas and the Clintons have the goods on Comey which is why he never filed any charges against her..”

Agree.

I also caught a peculiar look on Comey’s face during the hearing when the press was discussed. It gave me a gut feeling that he leaked this crap to the press.


46 posted on 03/20/2017 4:40:54 PM PDT by LouisianaJoanof Arc (Proud horrible deplorable)
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To: detective

Comey should not only be relieved of that post... he should be investigated.


47 posted on 03/20/2017 4:40:58 PM PDT by theDentist ( qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Timpanagos1

No. Come back and tell us when you’re proven wrong.

Trump and Sessions are not as dumb as you evidently think.


48 posted on 03/20/2017 4:42:24 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: detective
...Comey said there was no evidence to Trump's claims that Barack Obama wiretapped him and Trump Tower, as the current president alleged in a series of tweets earlier this month. And he confirmed that his agency was investigating the 2016 Trump campaign's links with Russia's effort to intervene in the presidential election.

So, to rephrase that, Comey said; "There was no surveillance of Trump, we have been investigating Trump but we did it without surveillance."

I for one am glad that the FBI has stopped using surveillance to conduct its investigations.

During Congressional testimony Nathan Comey denies being a weasel!

49 posted on 03/20/2017 4:46:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (We all have a stake in MAGA! We all need to contribute our efforts.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Comey has the goods on the Clintons AND the Obamas..and the Obamas and the Clintons have the goods on Comey which is why he never filed any charges against her..anyone else would have gone to prison for what that witch did but Clinton, she doesn’t spend a day in jail.

That's one possibility. Another is that indicting a major party presidential nominee during a campaign would bring down a massive firestorm of rage on the head of anybody who tried to do it. Yet another possibility is that as part of the permanent government, Comey preferred Clinton to Trump.

50 posted on 03/20/2017 4:47:34 PM PDT by x
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To: detective

Comey: Crime is only crime if committed by Republicans.


51 posted on 03/20/2017 4:48:40 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: detective
"Comey Delivers Political Gut Punch to President Trump"

Yeah, he's so affected, he's off attending a huge rally in Louisville with his supporters.

52 posted on 03/20/2017 4:49:53 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: rdcbn

Or it was the Brits as Judge Napolitano claims.


53 posted on 03/20/2017 4:49:55 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: detective
Sleep well Comedy! President Trump will be there, watching over you!


54 posted on 03/20/2017 4:51:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Remember during Trump Tower Spydgate, there were No American fingerprints; just Obama's...!!!!:))
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To: detective

Comey should be fired!


55 posted on 03/20/2017 4:52:30 PM PDT by Herman Ball
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To: detective

I think Comey is royally screwed up. The DOJ’s role in the election needs to be investigated. And Mexico’s.


56 posted on 03/20/2017 4:52:45 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

They can’t. Hilldog won the popular votes which should make it plain that if the russkies helped anybody, it was her.


57 posted on 03/20/2017 4:53:04 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Sarah Barracuda

You are too short sighted in accusing the media. It is the worldwide socialist movement that wants Trumps movement gone, at any and all means.

This movement includes Democrats and Republicans, republicans like McCain, Bush, Linsey Graham.


58 posted on 03/20/2017 4:54:13 PM PDT by stockpirate (FIRE ALL OBAMA & BUSH APPOINTEES NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: detective

Trump said his team was spied upon, Comey said they spied upon his team. OK


59 posted on 03/20/2017 4:55:58 PM PDT by heights
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To: Sarah Barracuda
And Comey said REPEATEDLY that there is NO Trump/Russia connection..END OF STORY..PERIOD..but the media wants Trump gone, they want him kicked out of office and put in jail, that is their end game..actually their end game is someone assassinating President Trump

Sad but true, they are just practicing the big lie:

Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.

It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

The left's foundation is so full of big lies but their enemy, the truth, is slowly coming out. It's funny, I just read a thread about a leftist author was calling on leftists to buy guns to protect themselves from this nazi fascist movement led by Trump.

If these fools only knew, the people that pull their strings, use Goebbels nazi tactics against them. I try to remember to pray every day for President Trump's safety and for the continued truth to come out.

CGato

60 posted on 03/20/2017 4:56:23 PM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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