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Comey’s Last Moves: Spying on a President, Setting the Trap, Lying About It
American Thinker ^ | 12 Aug, 2025 | M. Walter

Posted on 08/12/2025 4:34:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber

From January to May 2017, James Comey moved from covert scheming to open warfare against the incoming president — misleading Congress, trapping Michael Flynn, renewing surveillance on Trump, and leaking to spark the Mueller probe.

Thus far, James Comey’s activities have been largely confined to his duties, however corrupt, within the FBI, or inward-looking. From January 2017 onward, his activities become dramatically darker, arguably illegal, and more forward-looking.

On January 5, 2017, a bit more than two weeks before Inauguration, Obama met with Biden, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, and Assistant Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval Office. Comey did not disclose this meeting to Congress when asked about how many times he met with Obama. "Twice," he said, under oath. It was actually three times. This omission is a “tell” as to how sensitive the discussions were in this now infamous meeting.

The very next day, January 6, Comey went up to New York to tell Trump about the “salacious and unverified” material in the dossier. This was the first time Comey had met Trump, and he had a “goal.”

We now know his “goal” was to launch the dossier portion of the scheme. His meeting with the president-elect was the news hook they needed to get the dossier into the legacy media bloodstream, and within hours, it was everywhere.

Even while Comey was briefing Trump on the garbage dossier, his malign machinations were about to bear fruit elsewhere. Via Fox News:

“FBI Director James Comey considered an anti-Trump dossier compiled by a former British intelligence officer so important that he insisted the document be included in January [6th]’s final intelligence community report on Russian meddling in the U.S. election, [the I.C.A.]…”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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To: MtnClimber

I would like to see him cut down from 6’7” to about 5’7”.


21 posted on 08/12/2025 5:59:24 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: MtnClimber

I laugh at all these articles now these days... How long has this been getting pimped by everyone!?? and STILL not a single person is being arrested for anything swamp related... we havent even seen a single person hauled in for fraud yet!!

So how much longer do us impatient, instant gratification types, have to wait for the first person to be indicted for ANYTHING!!??


22 posted on 08/12/2025 6:03:54 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Comey wasn’t just a “bad cop”. He was very aggressively doing really bad things, like a criminal mastermind who plots a major heist.


23 posted on 08/12/2025 6:04:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: healy61

He’s actually quite wealthy.


24 posted on 08/12/2025 6:04:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: eeriegeno
That is not anywhere near adequate punishment for a traitor who was seditious.....

Who recruited multiple bad actors like Strozk et al and tarnished an entre federal agency.

25 posted on 08/12/2025 6:05:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

General Milley should be returned to the Military and summarily court-martialed, and given a Dishonorable Discharge.


26 posted on 08/12/2025 6:16:19 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: MtnClimber

Did OBAMA know of the HILLIARY stell dossier before this big meeting of the COUP PLOTTERS?


27 posted on 08/12/2025 6:39:11 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: cuz1961

SVE DEMOCRACY MEANS SAVE DEMOCRATS.....PERIOD.


28 posted on 08/12/2025 6:40:38 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: cuz1961

The GOP could simply co-opt the “Save Democracy” line which is the only line the Dems have and all parrot. It would be hilarious.

“We’re indicting Schiff and James in order to “save democracy” from Dem abuse of power.


29 posted on 08/12/2025 6:42:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: silent majority rising

FIRING SQUAD?


30 posted on 08/12/2025 6:43:24 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

Book ‘em,Danno...Treason 1


31 posted on 08/12/2025 7:19:21 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: cuz1961

It drives me nuts when I see those people demonstrating with signs “Save our Democracy”.
Kamala main presidential idea was to do just that.
Totally hypocritical!
At least since 2017, they are trying to destroy it.
Shame on them!


32 posted on 08/12/2025 7:22:23 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Henchster

In 2001 it was just childish action of some stupid staffers.
(Makes one wonder, about the idiots in charge?!)
2017 was an orchestrated insurrection by the top echelons.
Those people were in charge, they were the tops!


33 posted on 08/12/2025 7:28:30 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: AZJeep
It was a LOT more than just the petty stuff. Paul Begala had an evil smile as he said "We've left them some land mines."
34 posted on 08/12/2025 8:02:51 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: MtnClimber

This slimey mookabooker belongs in prison


35 posted on 08/12/2025 8:06:13 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: MtnClimber

There should be a Wall of Traitors erected at the FBI/DOJ and CIA with all of their pictures on it, for eternity, when the prosecutions are over.


36 posted on 08/12/2025 8:26:43 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: sit-rep

Actually, someone involved in the Crossfire Hurricane attacks on Trump has been arrested - Charles McGonigal:

Former top FBI official Charles McGonigal arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
ABC News ^ | January 23, 2023 | Luke Barr, Aaron Katersky, and Alexander Mallin
Posted on 1/23/2023, 1:00:53 PM by Navy Patriot

A former top FBI official in New York has been arrested over his ties to a Russian oligarch, law enforcement sources told ABC News Monday.

Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who has been sanctioned by the United States and criminally charged last year with violating those sanctions.

McGonigal retired from the FBI in 2018. He was arrested Saturday afternoon after he arrived at JFK Airport following travel in Sri Lanka, the sources said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com


37 posted on 08/12/2025 12:24:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

thatsa pretty good stretch but I wont outright reject it. there have been several arrests involving state level agents but no one from DC/the swamp.


38 posted on 08/12/2025 1:30:32 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: ghost of nixon
Mr Comey damaged the FBI, law enforcement in general, and the United States of America more than any man before him! Embarrassment and humiliation are the least of punishments that could be bestowed upon him! He deserved to be toted back to DC tribal style and given one last dinner before his punishment for treason was administered!

And Mrs Clinton should have been required to watch as Mr Comey was receiving his just deserts since there was complicity between the two.

39 posted on 08/13/2025 5:23:12 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: eeriegeno
Agreed - Comey deserves way more punishment. Very frustrating for conservatives - HOWEVER - very difficult to adequately respond to criminal acts like Comeys because of

1) the sheer volume of crimes and criminals has made it difficult to focus

2) maybe 95% of politicians, judges, and other government officials are either opposed to Trump, neutral, or neutralized due to their own failings.

40 posted on 08/13/2025 8:35:11 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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