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Trump: "So you look at it, I mean, you have Brennan, you have Clapper and you have Comey," he continued. "Comey is proven now to be a liar and he is proven now to be a leaker."
Comey:
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@Comey
If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is light as a feather and a breath will carry it. Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855).
10:36 AM · Nov 11, 2017
Frankly, I think he needs to be a lot tougher in his responses.
SirBrockington
(259 posts)Hillary lost and as a result a big creator of all this shit. I think hes gotten a huge pass from the Left and MSM. I imagine Mueller at head of FBI would not have done any of the things Comey did.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)and he may have taken him on after the election, but Comey was not going to miss an opportunity to place someone like Neil Gorsuch on the court.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)His unprecedented and unecessary editorializing in the Summer, and then, when he saw she was unstoppable, threw a hand grenade ELEVEN days before election day.
The result those deliberate decisions he made are tragic. That scumbag will never get a pass from me.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)more than anything. JMO.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,924 posts)What does that make Comey?
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,924 posts)But he did help throw the election in a very public way. There is no doubt about that.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,008 posts)I don't think he was deliberately trying to sink Hillary, but I think his first priority was covering his own ass.
He should've dropped the investigation, but would've been accused of bias. Had he not editorialized after delivering the initial report, it would've been more proof, especially after the Clinton tarmac meeting. He was more concerned with shielding himself from criticism than he was from doing the right thing.
And I truly believe that the Comey letter nothingburger was a no-win situation. It would've come out regardless, Giuliani was smirking his way across cable news for days before the letter, all but gloating that they had the goods on Hillary and it would change the race. And if it had been leaked from the NYC FBI office, nothing could've been done. Comey tried to get ahead of it, and defuse it, but it blew up in his face.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)woolldog
(8,791 posts)If he had believed that was possible, he would've acted differently.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Glamrock
(11,795 posts)Can't imagine being in that situation. It was lose/lose no matter what he did. I wouldn't have slept for days.
Can't believe some of the smears he gets. This is the same guy who rushed to the hospital to block the Bush admin. from getting Armstrong to sign off on warrantless wiretaps while he was recovering from surgery and drugged the fuck up. He's shown to be nothing but an honorable man up until this episode, horrible as it was and as horrible as the consequences were, and has shown himself to be nothing but honorable since.
mythology
(9,527 posts)If you blame Comey I think you have to hold Clinton responsible too.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Nice to bring it back to HRC's horrible OMFG original sin!!! THEM EMAILS, right????
still_one
(92,140 posts)though I hope he is instrumental in bringing trump down
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
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lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:44 PM - Edit history (1)
BTW, Comey, that feather analogy? That's what you did to Hillary, you, hypocritical scumbag.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)She lost the electoral college vote for three main reasons in this order..Comey, Russia, Misogyny. She won the popular vote because she is the most qualified and experienced candidate who was professional and ran on issues, not insults.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)He knew EXACTLY what he was doing, and that it could only hurt Hillary and help trump. You don't throw a (false) bombshell ELEVEN days before the election unless you want to do the worst possible harm. His timing proves what an sleaze he is. He left no room for Hillary to recover. Meanwhile, he kept quiet about trump being investigated. What does that tell you?
If he had any remorse for what he did, he'd apologize both to Hillary and the nation. Instead he is being all-superior and self-righteous on twitter.
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Podkayne K
(145 posts)That POS had and has been after the Clintons for years. Comey and his band of New York Fascists in the FBI have shown their disdain for Democracy and true democratic institutions time and again.
Comey's big "academic" job--where the students are forbidden to protest him--and his firing have put him "in" with the MSM up to and including MSNBC--which I don't quite understand. Instead, he should be investigated in the Mueller probe--but won't be--and his actions and slimy tactics scrutinized meticulously.
He and his Klan have infested us with a very dark and dangerous disease. And now that we've been sickened, there is almost no way to completely purge all the perfidy that has begrimed us and our country.
SO PLEASE, STOP COVERING FOR SCUMBAG COMEY.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Podkayne K
(145 posts)we both still have the right to voice our own opinions. (Though how long that will be true is, at best, problematic.)