I despise Comey for what he did 11 days before the election, but this cnn report that

[still_one]

Comey knowingly used fake news does not pass the smell test

This report really smells like fake news to me

[Else You Are Mad]

1. I agree.

It doesn't seem legit to me. As much as we like to demonize him, he is way to smart to fall for it.

[PubliusEnigma]

2. Muddy waters

[luvMIdog]

3. I'm still waiting for the full story to form my opinion. I want to hear his testimony.

[still_one]

12. That is the rational way to approach it

[democratisphere]

4. I don't believe it is true. Russian or WH fake news would be my bet.

Comey would not indulge in sh*t like this.

[murielm99]

5. They are trying to discredit Comey

for the things he has said since the firing.

This is another distraction.

They were stupid enough to think the Democrats would cheer the Comey firing. They have no idea about nuanced thinking. They think everyone has an attention span and memory as short as trump's. Sorry, we are not going to forget his role in putting 45 in the White House. If he helps get 45 out of the White House, that is good. But Comey is still a dick.

[MiddleClass]

10. Bingo

Managing his own supporters, throwing a lifeline for them to not abandon him.

They are not trying to discredit Comey with the government, the voters, even the Republicans.

This is a total base play, muddy the waters, or his minions on TV or not.

Preemptive attack because of what's happening this week. "Testimony"

how childish

[virtualobserver]

6. it isn't fake exactly......it is mis-stated

He gave it as one of the two reasons that he announced the END of the investigation, it wasn't that he used it as evidence against anyone.

1. that they had uncovered a fake email that stated that AG Lynch was compromised.

2. he did not want anyone to think that AG was compromised after Bill Clinton talked to her on the tarmac.

[furtheradu]

7. I agree! From the 1st minute I heard it..😒

Stinks to hiiiigh Heaven.

He testifies tues, right? I am sure he will address THAT, as soon as he takes the oath!

[moonscape]

20. I don't believe a date has been set. Mueller is involved now, and

they undoubtedly are coordinating on the parameters of his testimony.

[furtheradu]

22. Thanks!

You're right about the Mueller coordination..
I plan to rearrange my schedule so I can listen LIVE, on cspan radio.

[yallerdawg]

8. On the other hand...

his final testimony as FBI Director 'revealing' how Huma Abedin sent her despicable husband emails containing classified information for him to print - testimony under oath! - a wholesale fabrication of misstatements that had to be corrected by the FBI the day Comey was fired?

If Comey ever made a lick of sense - last summer, in October or just a few weeks ago, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.

But he has really stunk up the place, so....

[virtualobserver]

13. he mis-stated the NUMBER.....not that she forwarded emails, or that they were classified

those things were true.....

[yallerdawg]

16. "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."

What Comey says and does has no impact on anything, and he really is a good man - and, by the way, it's all Hillary's fault anyway.

Oh, I hear you.

[virtualobserver]

18. he is a good man

show me your evidence of exactly what Comey said that you believe was untruthful and your evidence to support that.

[yallerdawg]

21. One example.

"He misstated the NUMBERS."

Are we giving passes to all the White House associates who misstated their contacts with foreign representatives, like Flynn, Manafort, Sessions and Kushner?

Let's have a little consistency here, shall we?

[virtualobserver]

23. the problem is that we are talking semantics here

the numbers of emails forwarded, were more likely backed up.....

Huma's emails were still moved to her husbands laptop.
She did actually literally forward them a number of times and some of them were classified.

No material difference, just semantics.

Nothing like the Trump gang.

[Kahuna7]

9. The stench of trump will attach to Comey in the history books. nt

[MiddleClass]

19. Shortest paragraph in the history books

President Donald J Trump
2016 – resigned 2018.
What was American thinking? James Comey
Fantastic – Failure



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[Control-Z]

11. Those were my exact first thoughts

about this particular story. "does not pass the smell test" I don't know that I've had the same kind of reaction to any other story since this all started.

It doesn't fit. He finds out that Lynch is not going to allow the investigation to go any deeper and he runs to be the first to clear Hillary? It makes no sense. Nothing about it fits. And how could it have been a game changer, as I've heard said?

[BigmanPigman]

14. I thought it was only me who was confused. Colbert tried to explain it

and even he had a hard time since it doesn't make sense.

[still_one]

15. It really doesn't make sense

[yallerdawg]

17. When do more of us start doubting Comey's honesty?

[Igel]

24. As far as I'm concerned, it's all fake news.

The initial "leak" that he had the report; the leak that the report was disinformation; the leak that he knew it was fake.

No "leak" has any greater grounds for trust than any other leak, apart from our awesome ability to know what is true and false using our olfactory receptors.

We don't need logic; we don't need evidence; we don't need verification; we don't need critical thinking. We don't need anything but our awesome knowses. He knows this, she knows that, I knows what I knows.