Vox: Comey's 'Damning Admission' that Polls Influenced His Hillary Email Probe

Newsbusters ^ | April 13, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Not all liberal media outlets are giving favorable coverage to former FBI Director James Comey's new book, A Higher Loyalty. One such media source is Vox which reminds its readers about why most liberals were clamoring for Comey to be fired...right up to the moment when President Donald Trump actually did fire him.

The reason for Vox writer Matthew Yglesias's ire towards Comey in his April 13 article is that Comey admitted in his book that he believed the polls that predicted Hillary Clinton was certain to win the 2016 election so he figured his re-opening of the probe into her email shortly before the election would have no effect on the outcome. Yglesias also admitted that he also believed Hillary was certain to win and provided a link to his November 7, 2016 article a day before the election that in retrospect is quite funny to read. 

An upset Yglesias reveals the "damning admission" in James Comey admits that his read of the polls may have influenced his handling of the Clinton email probe:

[gubamyster]

He was playing Pontius Pilate, letting the crowd decide between Barrabas and Jesus.

[norwaypinesavage]

The most astonishing parts of Comey’s public proclamations illustrate his utter stupidity in what he admits. The press hails him as “the greatest lawman since Elliott Ness”, yet he admits to sophomoric such motives as this. It’s like he is too stupid to recognize that what he says publically exposes his lack of intellect. He makes Wiley E. Coyote look effective in comparison.

[JGPhila]

The email investigation was never a serious investigation. The result always was a foregone conclusion as shown by Comey’s exoneration speech written months before Clinton was interviewed; by allowing Clinton to be interviewed without putting her under oath; by allowing Cheryl Mills, who had been given immunity, to sit in on Clinton's interview; and by not seizing the DNC computer for forensic analysis instead of accepting the conclusions of a company hired by the DNC. Comey may have believed that by “re-opening” the investigation after emails were found on Anthony Weiner’s computer, and then concluding this did not change his decision, he was doing Clinton a favor by removing the last question about her failure to protect classified information. Maybe he saw this as his barganing chip to keep his job in a Clinton Administration.

[vigilence]

What Hillary and her supporters are really saying is that she would have won if Comey had not reneged on his duty to let her off the hook a second time as he had done in July 2016. If she hadn’t done the crime there would have been no reason for him to influence the election. She thought the fix was in but Comey backed out of it. It’s like saying she was caught speeding but paid off the cop, only to have him stop her again before she was home.

[PJ-Comix]

In a weird way we can attribute Hillary’s loss to Anthony’s Weiner.