Posted on 06/12/2017 1:04:53 PM PDT by Rockitz
Following countdown clocks on cable outlets and dramatic claims in the media about what devastating testimony to expect, James Comey sat down before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week. The hearing ended up being a bit of a let-down for critics of President Trump who hoped to get him impeached (or removed via the 25th amendment!) as soon as possible. Comey admitted that Donald Trump had told the truth when he wrote that the former FBI director had thrice told him he was not under investigation in the Russia meddling probe. Comey admitted that Trump had twice encouraged him to get to the bottom of the Russian meddling issue.
But the media chose to run with a dramatically different narrative. That narrative was if James Comey had not proven obstruction, he came pretty darn close.
“Is Trump Guilty Of Obstruction Of Justice? Comey Laid Out The Case,” was the big takeaway from NPR’s Domenico Montanaro.
“Comey Bluntly Raises Possibility of Trump Obstruction and Condemns His ‘Lies’,” exulted the New York Times, describing his testimony as “a blunt, plain-spoken assessment” by a man who was “humble, folksy and matter-of-fact.”
The New Yorker was even more breathless. “Comey’s Revenge: Measuring Obstruction,” wrote Evan Osnos. “[T]his was not a political partisan tossing off a criticism of a rival; this was a career prosecutor, who served Republican and Democratic Presidents, presenting a time line of specific statements from the President that he described as either untrue or potentially criminal.”
MSNBC agreed. And I watched an hour of CNN the night of the hearing with the sober legal analysis of Jeffrey Toobin, who declared repeatedly that he’d never seen such obstruction of justice in the history of the world. I’m only slightly exaggerating.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
I imagine his ego got in the way, but Trump should never have met privately with Comey. This guy is a Washington back alley knife fighter.
Yep. He is the Deep State’s hit man.
Comey-the-Clown wrote memos on Trump (AND APPARENTLY NO ONE ELSE) for the purpose of using them against Trump later in the hopes the Deep State could change the results of the election and get Trump removed from office.
Have you ever met someone at work who you said something to because you THOUGHT you could TRUST THEM, only to find out they RATTED ON YOU BEHIND YOUR BACK and got you in trouble?
COMEY IS A BACK-STABBER MASQUERADING AS A TRUSTWORTHY PERSON!
COMEY IS A BACK-STABBER MASQUERADING AS A TRUSTWORTHY PERSON!
COMEY IS A BACK-STABBER MASQUERADING AS A TRUSTWORTHY PERSON!
COMEY IS A BACK-STABBER MASQUERADING AS A TRUSTWORTHY PERSON!
COMEY IS A BACK-STABBER MASQUERADING AS A TRUSTWORTHY PERSON!
Bears repeating!
Yep, worth the read. What a total jackass Comey is. He needed to be fired. As corrupt as he is, it’s no surprise that he was appointed by Obama. No surprise that democrats are singing his praises. Mr. Fishing Expedition.
Comey is nothing more than a DIRTY COP who has finally been exposed.
“He is the Deep State’s hit man.”
He is the reason the leakers and NeverTrump gang felt safe. They knew with him at the helm of the FBI nothing would happen to them.
No serious leaks since his firing, and the arrest of the dimwit NSA contractor has hundreds sleepless and worried. Maybe thousands.
Good times.
No doubt about it.
Rotten prosecutors (of BOTH parties) have destroyed our freedom. And they almost NEVER pay a price. Usually, they are rewarded with the power they crave.
This punk should’ve been fired twice by W. Instead, he parlayed the Martha Stewart lynching into a big promotion. Then, he went from GOP hack to Obama hack.
He’s a sociopath.
Thanks for this great article!
THAT is a most interesting fact, the flow of leaks seems to have stopped suddenly with Comey’s firing. Let’s hope the deterrence effect is not merely temporary, and also that the scumbags are rooted out, fired, and prosecuted soon!
Comey is NOT a clown...he is CORRUPT!! A Clown can be funny...there is NOTHING funny about trying to bring down the President of the US...and Mueller is CORRUPT ALSO!!
Comey has NEVER been a GOP hack!! He has been the Clintons FIXER!!!
Comey had a lot of fellow travelers at the FBM (federal Bureau of Matters), and so there are more to FIRE, President Trump!!
Read the article. He climbed to power in the Bush II years. He made his name railroading Martha Stewart. He would've gladly been Trump's fixer, but Trump fired him.
OMG!! Just because he went after Stewart does NOT mean he was a Bushie!! geesh. Do you not know he;s been a Clinton FIXER for DECADES???
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