It’s looking more and more like Comey was acting as a firewall to run out the clock on investigating Obama’s people - not necessarily the top people (although they’re included), but the hundreds, maybe thousands of people who were the enablers and figured Hillary and others would protect them.
Those people are the ones that enabled Hillary, Obama and others to break the law - and given George W. Bush’s “new tone” back when he took office - where Bush simply refused to investigate what went on under Clinton, these tweebs had every reason to believe that they would always be above the law and that ANY REPUBLICAN that may come to power would simply leave them alone.
And they were almost right...16 of the 17 Republican candidates would have left them alone and, in most cases, not even want to go there, or in one or two cases (like Cruz), would have dipped a toe into investigating, but IMMEDIATELY backed off, as Deep State roared back at them with a vengeance. Trump, of course, is fearless, but I suspect that Comey anyway tried giving him an ‘offer’ to shut down Deep State in exchange for calling off the goons. Trump said ‘no dice’ and recorded it.
Comey was part of The Swamp.