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ecstatic

(32,685 posts)
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 11:53 AM Nov 2017

James Comey's response to Twitler's latest smear

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:




James Comey
@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.
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James Comey's response to Twitler's latest smear (Original Post) ecstatic Nov 2017 OP
Considering g hes the main reason SirBrockington Nov 2017 #1
And Mueller is quietly...persisting. WinkyDink Nov 2017 #2
Comey was deliberately trying to destroy the Democratic candidate. He may not have liked Trump, StevieM Nov 2017 #3
I disagree. He made a mistake but I don't believe this. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #5
I agree with StevieM. What Comey did was more than a "mistake". He set out to hurt her TWICE lunamagica Nov 2017 #9
I understand your opinion but I disagree on some of it. At this point this investigation matters Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #10
Everything matters lunamagica Nov 2017 #19
to me. to me! Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #22
Congratulations on post #6666. And, yes, Comey's actions were satanic. (eom) StevieM Nov 2017 #12
I agree with Stevie M. Comey deliberately threw the election to Trump. With the help of Putin. Irish_Dem Nov 2017 #15
I don't believe he deliberately did such thing. Also he is not part of Trump/Russia collusion. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #16
We don't know that lunamagica Nov 2017 #17
yep, JMO. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #24
I agree that he is probably not part of the Trump/Russia collusion. Irish_Dem Nov 2017 #28
But not in a colluding with trump way. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #29
Comey's biggest problem was that he was trying to protect HIS reputation sweetloukillbot Nov 2017 #6
I hate what he did but I agree with you about Comey. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #11
I don't think Comey seriously believed that Trump could win. woolldog Nov 2017 #13
Also I think Comey is horrified & repulsed by Trump. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #14
True that. Glamrock Nov 2017 #32
And if Clinton hadn't had the server it wouldn't have been an issue mythology Nov 2017 #23
Clinton's fault was nicely exaggerated & Comey overdid his actions. But still don't see him as evil Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #26
Commey has never got a pass from me, and I will never acknowledge him as an honorable man, even still_one Nov 2017 #30
He cannot be tougher. He is a witness. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #4
For a current witness, he always gives the best response. Sunlei Nov 2017 #7
GOOD! Actually, trump was way tou kind. I hope they eat each other. lunamagica Nov 2017 #8
DITTO! BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #18
ICAM with every word. Comey is not stupid, and he has been in the game long enough. lunamagica Nov 2017 #21
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2017 #20
STOP COVERING FOR SCUMBAG COMEY Podkayne K Nov 2017 #25
We see him differently. He did wrong but I don't think he did what some want to attribute to him. Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #27
And thankfully... Podkayne K Nov 2017 #31

SirBrockington

(259 posts)
1. Considering g hes the main reason
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 12:17 PM
Nov 2017

Hillary lost and as a result a big creator of “all this shit”. I think he’s 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.

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
3. Comey was deliberately trying to destroy the Democratic candidate. He may not have liked Trump,
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 01:47 PM
Nov 2017

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.

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
9. I agree with StevieM. What Comey did was more than a "mistake". He set out to hurt her TWICE
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:24 PM
Nov 2017

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)
10. I understand your opinion but I disagree on some of it. At this point this investigation matters
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:26 PM
Nov 2017

more than anything. JMO.

Irish_Dem

(46,924 posts)
15. I agree with Stevie M. Comey deliberately threw the election to Trump. With the help of Putin.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:37 PM
Nov 2017

What does that make Comey?

Irish_Dem

(46,924 posts)
28. I agree that he is probably not part of the Trump/Russia collusion.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:08 PM
Nov 2017

But he did help throw the election in a very public way. There is no doubt about that.

sweetloukillbot

(11,008 posts)
6. Comey's biggest problem was that he was trying to protect HIS reputation
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 01:53 PM
Nov 2017

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.

 

woolldog

(8,791 posts)
13. I don't think Comey seriously believed that Trump could win.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:32 PM
Nov 2017

If he had believed that was possible, he would've acted differently.

Glamrock

(11,795 posts)
32. True that.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:47 PM
Nov 2017

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)
23. And if Clinton hadn't had the server it wouldn't have been an issue
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:03 PM
Nov 2017

If you blame Comey I think you have to hold Clinton responsible too.

 

Madam45for2923

(7,178 posts)
26. Clinton's fault was nicely exaggerated & Comey overdid his actions. But still don't see him as evil
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:06 PM
Nov 2017

Nice to bring it back to HRC's horrible OMFG original sin!!! THEM EMAILS, right????





still_one

(92,140 posts)
30. Commey has never got a pass from me, and I will never acknowledge him as an honorable man, even
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:11 PM
Nov 2017

though I hope he is instrumental in bringing trump down


Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
7. For a current witness, he always gives the best response.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:05 PM
Nov 2017
tweet more Mr. Trump.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
WS

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)
8. GOOD! Actually, trump was way tou kind. I hope they eat each other.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:12 PM
Nov 2017

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)
18. DITTO!
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 02:42 PM
Nov 2017

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)
21. ICAM with every word. Comey is not stupid, and he has been in the game long enough.
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:01 PM
Nov 2017

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.

Response to ecstatic (Original post)

Podkayne K

(145 posts)
25. STOP COVERING FOR SCUMBAG COMEY
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:04 PM
Nov 2017

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.

Podkayne K

(145 posts)
31. And thankfully...
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 03:30 PM
Nov 2017

we both still have the right to voice our own opinions. (Though how long that will be true is, at best, problematic.)

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