The article says that the purpose of Comey's testimony was to plant the seeds of obstruction of justice for Mueller and the Democrats to use against Trump.
The fake Russia investigation creates the confusion and Mueller and the Democrats start impeachment proceedings.
Ain’t happening. Quite the contrary, Trump now has good reason to cancel the special investigator. Case is closed.
These idiots don’t have any chance of kicking Trump out of office.
What a stupid swamp-dweller column.
Unless, President Trump made Comey check his Blackberry in the microwave, there are “tapes” of the conversation. Listen to what George Webb has found.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3559435/posts?page=2
Matthew Incontinetti.
No it won’t. False premise and wishful thinking.
Did you know Comey SUPPORTED waterboarding and a few other methods. Caution: See Wiki
Someone is trying to sell newspapers. What POTUS said was nothing near obstruction. On top of which, there is no proof anyone said anything to anyone. Heck, they are memos that no one has seen.
Additionally,the POTUS has the right to fire anyone in the executive office for any reason or no reason. He was also fired on the recommendation of the deputy attorney general for poor performance handling the Clinton email scandal.
This brought to you by the party / paper that murdered Seth Rich.
No there’s no proof of that either, but both statements get attention.
What a crock.
I’m sure there are tapes, because I would not be surprised to learn that the Oval Office is bugged. Probably the only place President Trump can hold a private conversation is one of his own golf courses.
This one reply may lead to Alexandra Daddario taking me out for drinks tonight.
Let’s say to Coup is successful. Who is going to clean up all the corpses?
The owner is a uniparty hack and hates Trump .
Absurd. The insanity must come from a hallucinogen in their lattes
The Democrats can’t “start impeachment hearings” except on a street-corner.
Sometimes a little perspective can be helpful. The left has been trying very hard to make the case that Trump = Nixon.
So, what do we have so far?
Trump (on Flynn): “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go”
Hmmm...sounds pretty bad. How does Nixon compare?
Nixon (articles of impeachment):
Article 1
On June 17, 1972, and prior thereto, agents of the Committee for the Re-election of the President committed unlawful entry of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of securing political intelligence. Subsequent thereto, Richard M. Nixon, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his close subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of such illegal entry; to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities.
The means used to implement this course of conduct or plan included one or more of the following:
making false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States;
withholding relevant and material evidence or information from lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States;
approving, condoning, acquiescing in, and counselling witnesses with respect to the giving of false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States and false or misleading testimony in duly instituted judicial and congressional proceedings;
interfering or endeavouring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, and Congressional Committees;
approving, condoning, and acquiescing in, the surreptitious payment of substantial sums of money for the purpose of obtaining the silence or influencing the testimony of witnesses, potential witnesses or individuals who participated in such unlawful entry and other illegal activities;
endeavouring to misuse the Central Intelligence Agency, an agency of the United States;
disseminating information received from officers of the Department of Justice of the United States to subjects of investigations conducted by lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States, for the purpose of aiding and assisting such subjects in their attempts to avoid criminal liability;
making or causing to be made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that a thorough and complete investigation had been conducted with respect to allegations of misconduct on the part of personnel of the executive branch of the United States and personnel of the Committee for the Re-election of the President, and that there was no involvement of such personnel in such misconduct: or
endeavouring to cause prospective defendants, and individuals duly tried and convicted, to expect favoured treatment and consideration in return for their silence or false testimony, or rewarding individuals for their silence or false testimony.
Articles 2 & 3 can be found here:
http://watergate.info/impeachment/articles-of-impeachment
Trump did not say there were tapes.
He said there were “tapes”. Quotes were intentionally placed there by Trump.
Even if Trump had demanded that Comey shut down the investigation and fired him for that reason alone, there is no violation of the law. Trump had the absolute right to both shut down an investigation (especially one involving national security) and fire Comey and everyone currently involved in the investigation. Frankly in light of all the leaks, he should shut down the whole investigation and demand the resignations of every agent that refuses to take a lie detector test to confirm they were not the source of any leaks.