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Comey memos reveal (surprise!) Republicans have blundered again [Jennifer Rubin]
washingtonpost ^ | April 20, 2018 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 04/22/2018 5:52:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

If you didn't know better, you’d think House Republicans were trying to sink President Trump.

We had the fake “unmasking” scandal, including a clandestine visit to the White House by Rep. Devin Nunes. It turned out to be a dud, revealing that Nunes was a dull-witted cohort of the president.

Then came the Nunes memos. Hey, we’ll create a scandal by pretending that the Justice Department and the FBI lied to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about the origins of the Steele dossier!

Then the dopiest idea of all — threaten to subpoena the James B. Comey memos and then charge Rod Rosenstein with contempt when he refuses. Did it dawn on them that he would hand them over and that they would match almost identically with everything Comey has said or written? Apparently not. This crowd has blown itself up more times than Wile E. Coyote.

Bob Goodlatte, Trey Gowdy and Nunes, for reasons known only to them, thought the memos’ release would be helpful to Trump. Wrong.

To the contrary, Comey’s attention to detail and perspicacity bolster his own credibility. It is all there — the president’s rambling monologues, obsession with the alleged “pee tape,” attempts to lean on Comey to let Michael Flynn off the hook, demands for loyalty and so on.

Unrelated to the Russia investigation but equally interesting is Trump’s obsession with leakers and his expressed desire to lock up reporters.

Release of the memos confirm (at least) four things: Trump tried to lean on Comey in inappropriate ways designed to interfere with the normal operation of the criminal-justice system; Trump is every bit as irrational and unhinged in private as we suspect; Trump is frightened that the salacious dossier allegations might be proved true; and Trump cares not at all about protecting American democracy.

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To the contrary, Comey’s attention to detail and perspicacity bolster his own credibility.
1 posted on 04/22/2018 5:52:45 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Comey will go down with the rest of them. It has already started and nothing will change that.


2 posted on 04/22/2018 5:54:55 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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Because Comey wrote something on paper makes it true? Rubin should shorten her name to Rube.
3 posted on 04/22/2018 5:55:31 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Soon as I saw her name I knew it was a ridiculous article.

Notice how they harass Trump with the dossier, then say he’s “obsessed”with it.


4 posted on 04/22/2018 5:55:57 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: MarvinStinson

This woman is a fraud. Terrible “conservative” and foolish


5 posted on 04/22/2018 6:03:15 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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“”To the contrary, Comey’s attention to detail and perspicacity bolster his own credibility.””

Isn’t that what she said?

Incredible that he wrote the same things down that he’s been saying makes it all true now! Is that how her brain works?

Let’s make sure someone tracks her so we’ll know where she is when she has to eat crow for dinner!


6 posted on 04/22/2018 6:03:44 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: shalom aleichem

Agreed. She’s a plant. Calls herself “conservative” but clearly is nothing of the sort.


7 posted on 04/22/2018 6:07:52 AM PDT by browniexyz
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To: MarvinStinson

The memo reinforces the idea that Comey was trying to blackmail the President.


8 posted on 04/22/2018 6:11:34 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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Bet she loves the rat parties. Think she’s a player?

Proggie women...arghhhhhhh.


9 posted on 04/22/2018 6:12:23 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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Who the Hell is Marvin Stinson?


10 posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:29 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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Rubin is deranged and has been for some time.


11 posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:45 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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>>> We had the fake “unmasking” scandal <<<

Fake? The unmasking scandal hasn’t been fully uncovered yet, and is sure to indict senior Hussein officials including the former president himself. Jennifer Rubin is just displaying the anti-Trump bias shared by most of the DC Swamp dwellers - folks like McConnell, Flake, McCain, Ryan etc.


12 posted on 04/22/2018 6:16:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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“Agreed. She’s a plant. Calls herself “conservative” but clearly is nothing of the sort.“

A hallmark of proggies is their deceitfulness. They do taqiyya just like muzzies. A proggie praising perspicuity is like an slut praising chastity.


13 posted on 04/22/2018 6:20:52 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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Trump Jennifer Rubin is every bit as irrational and unhinged in private as we suspect;
14 posted on 04/22/2018 6:21:51 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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Jennifer Rubin: The liberal's idea of what a
Republican conservative should be.
15 posted on 04/22/2018 6:23:04 AM PDT by StormEye
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Good.


16 posted on 04/22/2018 6:23:41 AM PDT by MarvinStinson (<B>)
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To: MarvinStinson

I need one of them thar Washington Posts for my dog in the front yard...


17 posted on 04/22/2018 6:28:31 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: StormEye

In the history of this rotten affair this has to be the most fatuous article written. The whole damned DOS/FBI hierarchy is going down thanks in large part to the Republicans in the House.


18 posted on 04/22/2018 6:29:34 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: MarvinStinson

So when Comey, a known liar with a vendetta against Trump, writes something on paper that can’t be verified we are all supposed to believe it? This is absolutely laughable.

The more detail, the bigger the lie. If Comey’s notes are full of detail it’s likely he is using his imagination to fill in the blanks of his memory. He was not recording things as they happened. He did it at a later time. Unless Comey possesses a perfect eidetic memory, it’s impossible to have that good of recall hours or days later. IMO, Comey wrote the notes as a weapon against Trump to be used when the time was right, not as a record of the meeting.


19 posted on 04/22/2018 6:40:19 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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“Soon as I saw her name I knew it was a ridiculous article.”

Me too. Her credibility is next to zero in my book.


20 posted on 04/22/2018 6:50:11 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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