Posted on 06/11/2017 7:53:42 PM PDT by Enlightened1
"I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter – didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons – but I asked him to, because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”
This statement is tremendously important because it completely delegitimizes Robert Mueller’s so-called independent investigation and reveals it as poisoned fruit.
Think about it: Comey was the top law enforcement officer in the nation before he was fired on May 9. Had he felt a special counsel was necessary to investigate possible Russian influence in the 2016 election, he could have requested one from Congress at any time. If he felt his conversations with President Trump warranted additional attention, he could have approached Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about it.
But instead he decided to do nothing. Comey apparently didn’t think there was need for a special counsel until the Monday after he was fired, according to his testimony. In a clear act of retaliation, Comey went outside the system and shared secret information with the media via a college professor-friend, in a calculated attempt to inflict pain on the Trump Administration. Further, he said he turned all his memos about his conversations over to the special counsel upon his termination – so Mueller’s investigators already had all they needed to make their own decisions.
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So, what we have here is a fired FBI director, who leaked private material to the press, so he could get his friend appointed as a special counsel in order to take retribution on the President – with the aid of a department full of federal lawyers who would have rather seen Hillary in the White House. And we are supposed to believe this will be an objective, unbiased investigation?
The Republicans in Congress ARE the Deep State.
It’s just too bad Trump hasn’t found a place for Newt.
McCabe, Rybicki, and Baker are Comey's inner circle. Rosenstein is a Trump pick who was brutally critical of Comey in a historical letter that justified firing Comey.
I agree, I’m not feeling food about this now as you can indict a ham sandwich if you have bad intentions and I don’t trust a friend of Comey’s, namely Mueller.
Good - It’s way past time to go after real crimes.
The DNC knows that when Obama and Hillary, et al, go down for what they actually did, it is the end of the Democrat party.
Hence, this ridiculous insurgency.
I dunno... We all on FR thought during the Clintooon 90's that it signaled the end of the Democ🐀 Barfy...
There are billionaires and very rich elites that will risk their fortunes to push a Dem autocracy. 😩
If, by some miracle, some of the key players were to be behind bars, it would slow down much. In this country, but the world would still be the world, as you say.
There’s no doubt James Comey is a Clinton Foundation operative and with Mueller stacking up with Democrats, we’re witnessing a coup (again) in this country.
Democrats pumped-up on 8 years of constant lies by Obama and the MSM. These are mindless zombies on the loose.....
✅ I have been posting on FR for a few months that we are in a civil war - but thank God it has not morphed into a shooting war...
***Democrats pumped-up on 8 years of constant lies***
...and today we see the results of all that Stalinist lies and propaganda! I hear whoops, sorry about that from democ🐀s, but have heard very little of condemnation - let's stop all this hate-mongering. They thought Hillary would win and appoint the last SCOTUS judge needed to cancel the Constitution - and now they are crazy to overcome this defeat and get their program to establish a Dem autocracy back on track.
I meant to add the lies of Hillary Clinton. It seems (per Drudge) that today’s liberal/Democrat kook was a Bernie Sanders fan who I call Crazy Uncle Bernie.
Because he also told lies. And then took a payoff from Hillary.
Stay alert, FReepers.
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