[palmer]

Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude

Well, no. That's the opposite of the truth (as Mark Levin pointed out tonight). The FBI inserted agents into the Trump campaign and, with the DoJ, colluded with the Hillary campaign, the Brits and even the Russians in a variety of efforts to extrap and subvert Trump campaign staffers and develop a Russian collusion narrative to use as October surprises and insurance policies.

By the time Trump fired Comey, Comey was up to his eyeballs in the resultant mess of illegal domestic spying based on fraudulent FISA warrants, etc and would not stop. Comey was out of control along with the rest of the corrupt FBI like McCabe, Strzok and on down the list. The FBI did nothing, and still has done nothing, to clean up their ranks.

The NYTimes is perfectly fine with that. Banana republic corruption of the highest law enforcement agency has to be celebrated and lied about. "Agents" were suspicious? Like Strzok? Those agents? Try corrupt and seditious.

[an amused spectator]

I foresee trees in their future.

And the people putting them up in the trees ain't gonna get backshot by the fibbie yellowbacks, this time.