Posted on 12/13/2017 9:01:43 AM PST by davikkm
When James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, he would not actually say that he believed President Trump obstructed justice when he said he “hoped” the investigation of Michael Flynn would end. But Comey said he clearly believed Trump was trying to influence his decisions.
Poor Comey said he was confused about why Trump really fired him. He complained "the administration chose to defame him and more importantly the FBI" by claiming that he had failed to be a competent leader. In fact, Comey testified, Trump never suggested to him that his performance was anything but great. Comey said he believes he was fired for the way he handled the investigation into Russian influence.
If I remember correctly, apparently Comey does not, Comey was fired for his failed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of highly classified information. Comey wrote Clinton off as not guilty before he had even finished the investigation. No one seems to care about that; however, he is clearly a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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If he doesn’t, he will make one up, just to put Trump on trial.
Q.E.D.
And as we have seen come out of the investigations... Come was not just a partisan hack, he was totally incompetent.
Trump had every reason to fire Comey..
Former FBI Director Comey was the head of HSBC, a huge British banking scandal involving drug cartel money.
Don’t worry Mueller hired 26 prosecutors while wearing a political blindfold and it was just by the rules of chance that he hired 26 left wing democrats who consider it their professional duty to bring down the president.
Oh yes there is. They are investigating the wrong person, however. The Obama Administration has committed a crime greater than Watergate and the criminals are investigating themselves! It’s a comedy, if it weren’t so pathetic.
There was never any RUSSIA COLLUSION, and everybody knows it.
The purpose of the investigation is to manufacture process crimes that have nothing to do with RUSSIA COLLUSION.
Yes he does and he keeps it locked up in a safe at his unicorn ranch.
Trump’s decision ostensibly came at the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who laid out the case for sacking Comey in a memo that detailed his mishandling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
According to quotes from TIME magazine:
“I cannot defend the Director’s handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clinton’s emails, and I do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken,” Rod Rosenstein said. “Almost everybody agrees that the Director made serious mistakes; it is one of the few issues that unites people of diverse perspectives.” “The FBI,” Rosenstein added, “is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a Director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them.”
From the White House, this decision: “You are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately,” Trump wrote to Comey in a letter released by the White House. “While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau.”
In other words, Trump listened to the people down there in charge and made a call based upon their recommendations, even though their opinions were not lined with his. But that’s what a good president does. If that is against the law, then the entire business network in the US should have been locked up 200 years ago, at least.
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The president cannot obstruct his subordinates.
“Comey was the head of HSBC, a huge British banking scandal involving drug cartel money.”
HSBC was -literally- started as a dope cartel bank. It was started to fund the trade when the Brits were forcing opium into China at gunpoint.
How is it possible that firing one subordinate in the Executive Branch turns into obstruction of Justice? It could only be so if Comey was so indispensable as to be the end to end all regarding justice in the FBI. Only egotistical, bellicose, delusional Comey would think his firing was obstruction.
Britain has been a communist country since the Peterloo Massacre.
Thanks! I had never heard about that. Interesting that the average British soldier in WWI had no right to vote, but the average German soldier could.
This was the war to make the world safe for democracy of course.
Interesting how our own government doesn’t want to count the soldier’s vote.
The charges are incorporated into articles of impeachment and voted on by the House.
In reality, Comey completely lied about the substance of his private meeting with Trump
Comey specifically testified that Trump asked Comey about Andrew McCabes integrity and impartiality . Comey twists the conversation to make it out like Trump is asking if McCabe will be a rubber stamp yes man who will cooperate in a cover up.
Comey testified in sworn testimony he told Trump that Andrew McCabe was a career professional FBI agent who was impartial, highly ethical and would never let personal feelings or political partisanship affect his job
Just like all the the rest of the non biased, non partisan professional
FBI agents
Comey also testified under oath that McCabe did not have any feuds or axes to grind with Trump or members of his administration
We now know that Comey was lying through his teeth to the President and that McCabe was a corrupt member of Hillary's FBI fixer team who was actively working to undermine Trump and set him up for impeachment
We also know McCabe wanted revenge on Gen Flynn for his support of a female agent who was being harassed and discriminated on by McCabe and McCabe was trying to cover up the investigation
Trump had every reason to fire Comey based on Comey’s lies about the Presidents questions on MCCabe
. . . because, being inevitably based on intelligence estimates - read, “assumptions” - about Russian behavior, they would be laughed out of court by the judge before trial. No possibility of being proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
For one federal courts have no role in impeachment proceedings. The prosecutor is the House and the judge and jury is the Senate. One would hope that due process and reasonable doubt would win the day, but in our butt hurt political environment, power and animosity hold sway. I for one believe Trump to be innocent of collusion and obstruction, but I am sure there are enough uniparty members in Congress that would be happy to see the President gone.
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