What Bothered Me Most About the Comey Hearing

RUSH: Now, there was something gnawing at me yesterday while watching all of this that has to do with the fact that Trump was not under investigation, that Comey had told him three times, starting way back in January. And that the first meeting between Comey and Trump was requested by Comey. Did you know that? Comey tried to make everybody believe yesterday that Trump wanted to speak with him alone, and he thought, “I don’t know!” “Don’t leave me alone in the room with him,” he told Sessions. “It’s just not normal.” It was Comey who asked for the room to be cleared at Trump Tower on January 6th.

It was Comey who requested a solitary meeting with Trump. Now, Trump had invited him up there. Comey was with a bunch of other people in the intel community. It was when that endless parade of people was going in and out of Trump Tower. But it was Comey who requested a lone meeting, a private meeting and ushered everybody out of the room. Now, the point of that is, imagine you’re Trump, and here comes the FBI director, and you know what he’s doing — he’s investigating this, investigating that — and he requests the room. He asks everybody be cleared out of the room so he can have a one-on-one with you.

If you’re Trump, could you be blamed for thinking that’s how the FBI director wants to meet with you? So when you ask on February 14th for another meeting with the FBI director, you ask him to come up to the White House for dinner ’cause this is how it happened last time. It’s all there in the testimony yesterday. The first time (I think it was January 6) was where Trump was told he was not under investigation, and that gnawed at me all day yesterday. That’s a long time. And now if… This goes beyond just the fact that, of all the things leaked, that wasn’t.

The great point made by Marco Rubio was that everything in the kitchen sink has been leaking except that. That didn’t leak. And that’s the only thing that’s really mattered in all of this. The only factual, true thing about all these leaks is the one that didn’t leak, that Comey told Trump he was not under investigation. As I say, it was gnawing at me all day yesterday. So I got back home yesterday, I took my chill period, and then delved back into show prep — and I ran across a literally great piece by Dan McLaughlin at National Review, and it perfectly explains why I was unsettled, why something was bothering me about all this yesterday.

RUSH: What bothered me yesterday that Dan McLaughlin at National Review brought into focus is that all of these people… Comey had told everybody in closed session up on Capitol Hill — he had told them — that Trump was not under investigation. Do you realize the entire Senate and House intelligence communities have known since January — since Comey’s first appearance up there, whenever it was — that Trump was not under investigation? Every damn Democrat for the last four months has known this. So have a lot of Republicans.

But it didn’t stop Chuck Schumer from saying, “We need to stop the hearings on Neil Gorsuch until the Trump investigation is over.” Schumer said that, despite knowing Trump was not under investigation, because James Comey had told people. He just had not leaked it. Many Democrat members of the Senate knew that Donald Trump was not being investigated, and yet they continued to make those charges in the media, and it was most visible with Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren using it as a card to try to get Trump’s nomination of Gorsuch killed.

Dan McLaughlin, National Review: Just think how many times Schumer made the charge while knowing all along it wasn’t true. All these Democrats charging Trump, alluding to it, alleging. Some of them saying they haven’t seen any evidence of collusion. They were honest about that. But they did not divulge that they knew Trump was not under investigation. This is one of the biggest scams. Call it hoaxes, whatever you want to call it. It is outrageous! Trump did not know until Comey told him, and I think Trump probably fired Comey because Comey would not announce this.

He couldn’t wait to exonerate Hillary Clinton, and he couldn’t wait to read Hillary Clinton’s mind when he said, “I can’t find any intent on her part to share classified data, and therefore no prosecutor would do so.” Everybody was shouting, “Petraeus! Petraeus! It’s the same thing. Petraeus was trafficking in classified data, and you sure as hell prosecuted the hell out of him.” More on that in a minute, too, because that is a great contrast, what happened to Petraeus and what could happen to Comey. Comey and Petraeus. You are not allowed to traffic in conversations about national security you’ve had with the president.

Petraeus was prosecuted for writing his own memos recounting conversations with people higher up the food chain. They were called his “black books.” There were eight of them, and his biographer — who he ended up having an affair with. He shared them with her, and he kept them in her house, which was not a secure location. Comey has gotten close to doing the exact same thing, memorializing conversations with the president. They’re not gonna charge Comey, don’t misunderstand. But when you are reminded of the Petraeus story, your blood will boil.

So you have all these Democrats out there continuing to obstruct and oppose Trump on the basis of this investigation. All the while, they knew Trump was not being investigated. All the while, they knew it was Comey who made the original request for a private meeting with Trump, and he did so at the suggestion of that hack from the Obama administration, James Clapper. And he based that first conversation with Trump on that silly, totally fake dossier featuring the golden shower story. You understand Trump’s frustration? He in the White House every day. He’s been told three different times by the FBI director he’s not a target.

He watches a lot of news — which I think he should stop doing. He watches a lot of news, and he sees Schumer and all these other guys running around talking about how, “We need to suspend the Gorsuch nomination for a while. We can’t move forward on the Trump agenda until he’s cleared in the investigation,” and they knew he wasn’t even being targeted. And I’m gonna tell you this: If Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren and Dianne Feinstein and all these others knew, so did the media. So did the media. I don’t believe for a moment that that wasn’t leaked.

I think that was leaked, and it wasn’t published by the Drive-By Media. That didn’t serve anybody’s purpose. “Trump’s not a target? That blows the whole story up! That blows every contingency to shreds, that Trump is not being investigated.” So that’s why they’ve dropped the “collusion” aspect and now they’re on to “obstruction. ” Newt Gingrich has treated that the Republicans had better get their act in gear and get rid of this independent counsel as quickly as they can because he thinks this is a total screw job. Comey and Mueller being best buds.

Mueller being a classic Washington, D.C., insider. All those times that Schumer and Elizabeth Warren were running around savaging and attacking Trump and advocating delay? The media was used to push the lie that Trump was under investigation, and they had to be totally willing in this. They knew it. I don’t believe for a moment people in the media did not know Trump had been cleared, and all of that falls apart yesterday, and not one place in the Drive-By Media are you hearing this interpretation of events.

Not a single place. This illustrates to a degree that I don’t think a lot of people even quite believe possible just what a bunch of reprobates — real, genuine reprobates — the Democrat Party has become, as well as the Drive-By Media. James Comey refused to end all of this. He could have stopped this madness. He says he cares about America. He wants us to all come together. He thinks we need to work together to stop the Russians from trying to tamper with our precious system.

For crying out loud, it was Comey and the Democrats and the media that were trying to tamper with our precious system and blow it to smithereens — and Comey allowed it to continue by refusing to end it by announcing that Trump wasn’t even being investigated. How does that square with everything you’ve thought you’ve known since last November? Trump was never under investigation! The next question to ask: Then why the hell is this investigation still going on, seemingly interminably?

RUSH: We start on the phones in Sonora, California. This Irene. I’m glad you waited. I appreciate that. How are you?

CALLER: Wonderful. I love you, Rush. Anyway, my point is this: In the beginning with Comey, everybody was saying what a principled man he was.

CALLER: Yesterday was a fiasco. This investigation should stop. Trump has no connection with Russia. This is my point. Why in the world did they select Mueller as this counsel, this investigator, when they knew he’s a friend of Comey? Is this man out to make a name for himself?

CALLER: Could you imagine? He would be the man who brought Trump down. And my question to you, Rush, is this.

CALLER: Is there a possibility there is a collusion going on between Comey, Mueller, and the establishment? They hate Trump so bad. They’re gonna go to any length to destroy this ma, who is trying to make this county prosperous and to bring America to where it should be: Prosperity and no poverty — as much as we can have no poverty. My thought is, “Why Mueller? Can he be unbiased, especially when his friend is concerned? Can he use his judgment and not be clouded by this friendship?” Something stinks.

RUSH: Yeah. I understand why you have the suspicions that you do. You know, all you have to do, the only… Look, the fact that Trump was never being investigated, and that we’ve got an independent counsel? Whisky Tango Foxtrot, folks. Whisky Tango Foxtrot? What the heck is going on? Why is there a…? Because they’ve moved the special prosecutor now. They’re hoping to move it to investigation of obstruction, now that there isn’t any collusion. Look, with Comey not leaking the only thing that matters, I can understand why you think there might be some grand alignment here. I can’t blame you for thinking that.

But it was Comey who requested a lone meeting, a private meeting and ushered everybody out of the room.

Tells me everything I need to know.

Not that Comey's history with the Clinton's doesn't say enough but that was a telling move on Comey's part.

He was trying to set up The President.

Maybe this explains why Comey said
“ no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”

Maybe Comey was trying to send a message and in his own way obstructing justice to protect who he thought was going to be president.

5 posted on 06/09/2017 1:26:35 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)

I agree. If you accept that the President is in charge of the executive branch and all law enforcement, as Dershowitz has been arguing persuasively the last few days, then he should have the right to fire the special counsel and tell the DOJ that the Russia investigation is phony, and to pursue real crimes instead. There would be an outcry, but it would be the absolute truth. The Supreme Court would be his backstop, but I’d feel better with one more conservative.

6 posted on 06/09/2017 2:05:10 PM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)

He should just do it. There will be an outcry anyways from the uniparty and the MSM no matter what he does.

The Supreme Court would be his backstop,
Like they were with Obamacare and gay marriage.< /sarcasm > but I’d feel better with one more conservative.
I'd feel better with 9 honest men...Yes, MEN. Women let emotions cloud their logic.

I asked FRiends today whether they knew a timeline on this very issue. Thanks, Rush for coming up with this. Apparently all of DC and the media knew this. The Dems kept making accusations, and the MSM refused (apparently) to exonerate the president.

Much of what I saw yesterday bothered me, but two things stood out. First, like Rush said today Senators have known for a long time that Trump wasn’t under investigation yet the Dems kept up the pretense knowing he wasn’t and THE REPUBLICANS LET THEM! Secondly, the stunning assertion generally accept by those in attendance that the FBI needs to be independent, as if it is worthy of being an independent branch of government. Scary!

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>> “ Secondly, the stunning assertion generally accept by those in attendance that the FBI needs to be independent, as if it is worthy of being an independent branch of government. “ <<

The new Gestapo, or the “FGB”
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11 posted on 06/09/2017 3:51:25 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)

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>> “Yes, MEN. Women let emotions cloud their logic.” <<

Leftist men are no better; they’re all potential purse carriers.
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12 posted on 06/09/2017 3:53:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)

If Comey is Mueller best bud, the Dep AG Rosenstein knew that.

That means:

1. Rosenstein is part of the swamp. 90% likely.

2. Trump & Sessions are running some kind of sting through Rosenstein. 10% at best.

13 posted on 06/09/2017 4:42:01 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)

If you accept that the President is in charge of the executive branch and all law enforcement, as Dershowitz has been arguing persuasively the last few days, then he should have the right to fire the special counsel...............

Nixon fired Archibald Cox.

14 posted on 06/09/2017 4:56:10 PM PDT by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)

15 posted on 06/09/2017 5:02:27 PM PDT by Kaslin ( The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)

That means: 1. Rosenstein is part of the swamp. 90% likely.

I choose #1 because Rozenstein named Mueller right after the Comey memo's leaked. He didn't wait to find out if it was true. Comey got fired and couldn't continue setting up President Trump to take him out. The fix was in and Rozenstein's action was Plan B.

17 posted on 06/09/2017 6:14:05 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU)

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