Comey is screwed…
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Comey’s memo is being treated as a “smoking gun” only because the media and Democrats, likely prompted by Comey himself, are now peddling it that way.
Comey will soon testify before Congress about this and other matters. His memo will likely be produced pursuant to a subpoena. The words and the context will matter.
But by writing a memo, Comey has put himself in a box.
If he accuses Trump of obstruction, he places himself in legal jeopardy for failing to promptly and properly report it as is required by law.
If he says it was merely an uncomfortable conversation, he clears the president of wrongdoing and sullies his own image as a guy who attempted to smear the man who fired him.Either way, James Comey comes out a loser. No matter. The libtards will hail him a hero.
After all, he gave them a good story that was better than the truth. -
Nothing better for the neofascist brigade than trying to piss off Democrats, starting with name calling.
Comey is not in trouble. He has, in fact, nothing to lose but his reputation, whatever you think that might be worth at this point. Please point out where the fired FBI head has accused the infantile POTUS of obstruction. He has made a record of a conversation, maybe of many conversations, with the marmalade Moussellini. Accusations are another matter. Conclusions are another matter. He made a record and kept on keeping on doing his job.
As posted today in a variety of ways by my very own self, Comey is much admired and trusted by the FBI and has been for years. He has made many mistakes, but no one who knows him or who has worked with him thinks he is other than a perfect and an upright man. Buy-Bull believers will recognize the reference.
He keeps records. When pressure is applied, he writes it all down and passes it around so there is a contemporary record. He could have spoken out and resigned, thus allowing Il Douche to get away with a cover-up, but instead he kept on with the intensified probe he was conducting and telling Congress about on a frequent basis, and made particular efforts to make sure that no one actively investigating the ruble-rouser got even a hint of pressure.
Evidence suggests Trump was laundering money for Russian criminals to enrich himself and family. And that he and manymany others were colluding with Putin et Cie. to get those inconvenient Obama sanctions lifted so they can all exploit billions and billions of petrobucks currently barred because Putin was (and still is) actively subverting the US government and its Weakest Link.
He has been mobbed up for decades as part and parcel of his real estate ventures, which sometimes (cf Turkey) even he has said compromise his independence. He has allowed a paid foreign agent access to top level US secrets even after knowing – because he was specifically told repeatedly, even by his own team-- the danger. Meanwhile, the transition team was running around with confidential documents and taking them out of safe places as if they were so many Tinker Toys.
He is on the record saying that you cannot deal with some of the countries making him rich unless you pay bribes. If he or his agencies paid bribes, he is personally and specifically guilty of a crime.
He demanded Comey swear fealty to him, but was thwarted. He demanded Comey return to Hillary e-mails and seek out leakers (hint: since everyone hates him, everyone leaks from every pore of this out of control maladministration). He suggested reporters should be locked up.
Attacking the press with the kind of "useful idiots" spreading his lies on this site, attacking independent courts, independent investigators, and most major US allies (but not Russia! not a single negative word about Russia!) still does not make the bastard competent or lift his poisonous popularity numbers. Up next: financial collapse, because we already have "responsible" Republicans and Trump minions calling for a one-party shut down of the government they hate and have no ability whatever to operate as a governing mechanism.
The Wall St. Journal today says tax "reform" now seems off the pig party agenda. Thanks, Obama.
Do not be distracted by trolls. They may chortle that Comey is dead meat, but someone said you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Today it has set Chelsea Manning free. And a remarkable array of "conservative" opinion spouters are jumping ship, from Andrew Sullivan (HIV+ barebacker) to George Fucking Will, and even elected politicians watching their career evaporate in a puff of smoke as flames leap higher.