What could tRump have possibly promised the FBI hierarchy to get them to campaign for him?

[Augiedog]

[underpants]

1. I think it's internal

There are a lot of Republicans there. They are pissed that Comey didn't recommend indictment even though the agents reviewing it voted unanimously not to indict. Comey is getting a lot of resignation letters and moral is bad.

That's my assessment from reading various articles.

[Raster]

3. I agree. There is a "civil war" mentality at the FBI.

[enough]

2. It's not about Trump. It's Clinton-hatred, and it is not new. With some white-supremacy

thrown in, which also is not new.

[roamer65]

4. Are they really this scared of having a woman president?

Wow...I just cannot comprehend how they live in such fear. I guess it's just foreign to me.

[monmouth4]

5. I don't think it's fear of a woman, it's the name Clinton..n/t

[Skittles]

7. no, it is both

[ronnie624]

9. Lots of fascists in law enforcement,

which includes strong elements if racism and misogyny.

[bettyellen]

11. It's fear of a woman who is smarter than you. That's powerfully scary to a lot of men.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Fear of a Clinton in the White House,

a really tough Attorney General that will clean house once and for all. There will be many going down the road with less than honorable reports in their files.

[JI7]

8. a racist white man in the white house

[Upin]

12. The simpler solution is more likely to be the correct one...

Comey knows he won't stay on after the election. He is getting replaced no matter what.

He had three choices. All bad...

a) Ignore the new information and keep the case closed. It's virtually guaranteed that the information would leak at some point and the FBI is put into a compromising position.

b) Wait until after the election to restart the investigation. This also looks like bias or favoritism. Also takes the chances of a leak at any time prior to that and then he doesn't get to frame the conversation or context. FBI looks bad for different reasons depending on who wins.

c) Release now with the ability to frame the conversation. No chance of leaks.

There is no way that he pleases everyone so he picks the one with the least blowback for the FBI in the long term. He can point to all the correspondence and back and forth that we saw for the last year plus as precedent.