The Comey Congressional testimony was supposed to be a shocker. Instead, it turned out to be a big yawn with Democrats’ dreams of obstruction charges dashed.
Senator McCain who was supposed to ask tough questions apologized for not being coherent due to lack of sleep from watching a late Diamondbacks game.
Headlines range from vindication to impeachment. They both cannot be correct.
How to Play the Game
The Intercept says JAMES COMEY, A WASHINGTON OPERATOR, KNOWS HOW TO PLAY THE GAME.
James Comey cut an impressive figure during his sworn testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. His presentation was poised, low-key, and almost cold-blooded as he laid out what amounted to a meticulously constructed case against President Donald Trump. Two overflow rooms and multiple live network broadcasts suggested that Comey’s mastery of public relations and the theater of government rivaled that of his former boss. The image of a decent government man dutifully saying his piece stood in defiant contrast to the atmosphere of vulgarity and naked self-interest that Trump has brought to the Oval Office.
Comey Hearing Good For Who?
If Comey knows how to play the game one ought not find a Wall Street Journal opinion piece entitled Comey Hearing: Not Good for Comey.
The Hill reports Trump lawyer accuses Comey of ‘improperly’ leaking memo to press.
Marc Kasowitz, the president’s outside attorney, said that Comey “admitted” to sharing the contents of memos recounting the fired director’s private interactions with Trump with a friend, who then leaked them to the press.
“Today, Mr. Comey admitted that he unilaterally and surreptitiously made unauthorized disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the president,” Kasowitz said, suggesting Comey may have committed an offense.
“We will leave it to the appropriate authorities to determine whether these leaks should be investigated along with all those others being investigated,” the attorney said.
Trump Celebrates
Is that playing the game well? So well that Trump cheered?
CNN’s Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta made this Tweet.
Acosta says “I believe in #realnews.” It would be refreshing if CNN would practice that motto too.
Comey Slams NY Times’ Fake News on Russia Probe
ZeroHedge reports Comey Slams NY Times’ Fake News On Russia Probe: “Story Was Almost Entirely Wrong”
For those of you who continue to consume anonymously-sourced news from the likes of CNN, NYT, WAPO, etc, as pure fact and a perfect substitute for actual, unbiased journalism, while blindly ignoring the overwhelming evidence which continues to suggest these outlets are simply pushing a sensationalized narrative aimed at bringing down an administration of which they disapprove, please consider Comey’s testimony from earlier today in which he describes a February NY Times story, which alleged numerous contacts between Trump associates and Russia, as “almost entirely wrong”
[Senator Tom] Cotton [to Comey]: “On February 14 the New York Times published a story, the headline of which was “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence.” You were asked earlier whether that was an inaccurate statement and you said you said ‘in the main.’ Would it be fair to characterize the story as ‘almost entirely wrong?'”
Comey: “Yes.”
Back on May 9th, the White House released the letter that President Trump sent to former FBI Director James Comey informing him that he’d been relieved of his duties at the FBI. Within that letter, Trump awkwardly inserted a sentence thanking Comey for informing him “on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation.”
Here’s the full sentence “While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.” (full post: Trump Fires Comey)
Not surprisingly, this statement set off alarm bells at CNN and other MSM outlets because, if true, it would put a real damper on their “Trump colluded with Russian hackers to stage a coup” narrative. Therefore, those outlets set out on a mission to ‘prove’ that Comey never made those statements and that, by definition, Trump clearly lied about his past interactions with the former FBI Director.
And not long after setting out on that mission, courtesy of those infamous ‘anonymous sources’, CNN and ABC struck gold when they confirmed that “FBI Director James Comey is reportedly set to testify he never told President Donald Trump that he was not under investigation.” Here is a summary of CNN’s reporting from their primary echo chamber, HuffPo: “Former FBI Director James Comey is reportedly set to testify he never told President Donald Trump that he was not under investigation in connection with Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to CNN and ABC News”
And here is the original CNN reporting:
Fake News Dilemma
Acosta says “I believe in #realnews.”
It seems like Acosta should resign and find another outlet. But where would he go?
It’s a real dilemma.
Comey Testimony Clears Trump
The Hill reports Dems’ dreams dashed as Comey testimony clears Trump.
The much-anticipated day had finally arrived. Democrats breathlessly awaited the testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey, certain that his testimony would topple Trump. But high hopes turned to dashed dreams when Comey’s testimony cleared President Trump.
1. There was no investigation into President Donald Trump.
Not only did the testimony vindicate the commander in chief, it included a startling revelation that Obama-era Attorney General Loretta Lynch attempted to influence the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton.
2. The mainstream media accusations of Russian collusion were inaccurate.
On Feb. 14, The New York Times reported based on infamous anonymous sourcing “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts with Russian Intelligence.” Today, we learned that story “was not true,” in the words of Comey.
In fact, the story so upset Comey that he surveyed the intelligence community to see if there was something he was missing. He took the extra step of seeking out Republican and Democratic senators to say that the article was not factual.
Comey went further in his testimony pointing out the problem with the media’s anonymous source reporting. “The people talking about it often don’t really know what’s going on,” he said, later adding, “[T]here have been many, many stories reportedly based on classified information … especially about Russia that are just dead wrong.”
3. No one ordered Comey to stop an investigation.
Sen. Richard Burr bluntly asked Comey, “[D]id the president at any time ask you to stop the FBI Investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. elections?” “No,” Comey replied. Comey then went on to confirm that no one working in the administration asked him to stop the investigation either.
Comey’s admission that he was not ordered to drop the investigation aligns with Wednesday’s testimony from NSA Director Mike Rogers and DNI Director Dan Coats. Rogers testified, “I have never been directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate.” Coats likewise said, “I have never been pressured” nor have I “felt pressure to intervene.”
4. No votes were altered in the 2016 election.
5. Attorney General Lynch tried to influence the Clinton criminal investigation.
Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch rightfully came under heavy fire for secretly meeting Bill Clinton on a tarmac just days before his wife, former Secretary of State and presidential contender Hillary Clinton, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the FBI. Today, we learned Lynch tried to influence Comey by asking him to call the criminal investigation a “matter,” not an “investigation.”
The request “confused me and concerned me,” said Comey, who saw this as an effort to ask the FBI to coordinate its messaging with a political campaign.
Taken together, when pushed on providing evidence of Russian collusion over the past few months, Democrats like Sen. Dianne Feinstein were forced to admit they had none. “Newspaper stories,” she cited last month to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. The same newspaper stories Comey called into question today.
McCain Make Bumbling Statements
Senator McCain, not a fan of Trump, was supposed to ask tough questions. Instead, McCain was not coherent.
At one time, McCain referred to Comey as president Comey. It was so bad McCain was forced to Clarify Bumbling Statements.
Although much of James Comey’s testimony Thursday offered new insight on his interactions with President Trump, the hearing ended with a whimper rather than a bang. Sen. John McCain, the last senator to question the former FBI director, pursued a line of questioning connecting the Russian meddling investigation to Hillary Clinton’s emails, leaving much of the public confused.
“I think there’s a double standard there to tell you the truth,” he said.
McCain said that he still had a lot of questions about the matter, and suggested at one point that Clinton had been investigated for involvement with Russian interference, rather than her usage of a private email server.
The longtime senator stumbled through his words at points, and referenced Comey as President Comey, presumably confusing him with Trump.
Some social media users said that the slipups may be the result of age, though McCain, 80, later blamed a lack of sleep.
“I get the tense from Twitter that my line of questioning today went over people’s heads. Maybe going forward I shouldn’t stay up late watching the Diamondbacks night games,” he said in a statement.
The Other Side
Those wishing to hear the “other side” of the story can easily find it.
Richard Wolffe writing for the Guardian says Comey’s testimony shows the impeachment machine is warming up.
“Make no mistake: Comey’s testimony was effectively the first hearing into what will surely become the impeachment of Donald J Trump,” says Wolffe.
My comment: Please be serious unless your goal is to perpetuate fake news or imitate The Onion.
Sure Impeachment? Really?
I have no idea what alternate universe Wolffe lives in, but opportunities clearly await someone of his obvious talent at CNN or the Onion. In retrospect, the Onion might be a better choice.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Oh no, Mish is opining on politics again…
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His opinions seems pretty well on point, so let him opine.
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Is your mother holding a gun to your head to make you read it?
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I didn’t think Mish was giving an opinion. I believe he was stating the facts as they were presented under sworn testimony. The rest was “feelings” and smoke of comey trying to salvage his reputation. He may wanna check with Clive Cussler for that sort of recovery job…
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Isn’t the big story gridlock despite a majority? Presidential soap operas are par for the course.
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Yawn…
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Comey is a proven liar.
Trump is only an accused liar.
I’ll take the word of an accused over the proven liar any day of the week.
So Comey leaked alleged statements from a private confidential conversation with the POTUS?
What makes him different from Reality Winner?
Lock him up!!!
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Comey was smart enough to declassify his memo before leaking it to a friend to give to the NY Times. Comey’s legal background came in handy, while Reality Winter was a lower level player not so skilled in the game. Had Susan Rice first declassified it, Winter would have been in the clear. This does show that the DNC, Deep State players and Mainstream Media Propaganda Whores are peas connected in the same pod. Cooperation or Conspiracy?
What I found particularly interesting is that Comey, who like Mueller is a long-time Schumer friend (the likely brains behind this soft coup attempt), correctly calculated his leak to get the special prosecutor (high on Schumer’s wish list). Deep State is heavily DNC oriented, as is the Mainstream Media. No doubt Erdogan in Turkey faced similar, and I now more clearly see the reason for the Gullen Deep State purges in Turkey. As to Comey, one swamp creature down, how many hundreds of thousands to go?
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Isn’t it strange that Comey apparently never made a note about when AG Lynch asked him to publicly refer to the Clinton criminal investigation as a “matter” NOR did he ever leak THAT even though that made him feel “creepy”… or made notes of any conversations with anyone other than Trump?
And when has “hoping” about something been a criminal act? Is “I hope you drop dead” attempted murder?
For a detailed history on Comey, see “The Truth About FBI Director James Comey: You’re Fired!” by Stefan Molyneux on YouTube. One whole hour of nothing but facts.
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Comey is a member of the Deep State and takes his marching orders from the swamp dwellers. And he has performed as instructed. A good soldier.
In spite of his firing, Comey will experience a very soft landing. They’ll take very good care of him. Somewhere there’s a very nice 7 figure cushy job waiting for him in the swamp land.
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Not until the Trump administration starts prosecuting all that can be, will the swamp draining begin.
This is also a good way to protect himself and family. I have no doubt husband assignation is being plotted by the leftist from both parties. Ryan and McAin want him gone as much as the Dems and Soros.
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I bet there have already been back room discussions with Mueller re: orchestrating trumped up charges on DJT.
Mueller was appointed by Bush2, right? The Bush family hates Trump with a passion.
Mueller was also good friends with Comey at the Bureau.
Mueller is Deep State without a doubt.
Even if Trump did nothing wrong they’ll spin it so he did.
Where were these hacks during Fast ‘n Furious or Solyndra or the IRS political audits on the conservatives?
Why wasn’t Jame Clapper investigated after he lied under sworn oath to congress re: NSA domestic eavesdropping?
Those of us who pay attention saw this coming way back when. It’s open season on Donald Trump.
What a dirty nation we’ve become.
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As Janet Tavakoli says, to understand why something’s happening note the news you’re not hearing. Justice Kennedy apparently is making noise about retiring very soon. Why are the ruling elites so hurried to eliminate Trump? Because soon the Supreme Court status quo balance of power: four libs, four conservatives, and one tie breaker will be altered by Trump. Job one is to preserve the status quo balance of power among our elites. It’s a perfect time to panic.
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You should have included more of Wolffes article.
“James Comey wants you to know a few things. First and foremost, that James Comey is a liar. Second, that Russia attacked the local snack nar during the 2016 election, and will do so again. Third, that you really shouldn’t laud the reputation of James Comey and the FBI without expecting some payback.
Trump’s Twitter web may be a complicated contraption, but the firing of Comey is a much simpler matter.
James Comey stepped back hard – and put Trump’s truthfulness centre stage.
In a devastating opening statement, delivered without notes, Comey explained how confused he was. After all, Trump had told him he was doing a great job and wanted him to stay. Then Trump fired him, either for the Russia investigation (as Trump said), or for the Clinton emails (as the Justice department said), or simply for bad management.
It was that last smack to the face that gave Comey all the motive he needed to go public. “I was lying, plain and simple,” he told the senators and the world. “And I am so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear those lies , and I’m so sorry that the American people were told those lies .” ”
Etc.
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“I have no idea what alternate universe Wolffe lives in, but opportunities clearly await someone of his obvious talent at CNN or the Onion. ”
Wolfe writes for The Guardian. What more needs to be said? It is its own alternate universe.
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Richard L. Wolffe (born 17 September 1968) is a liberal British-American journalist, MSNBC commentator, and author of the Barack Obama books Renegade: The Making of a President (Crown, June 2009) and Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House (Crown, November 2010). Richard Wolffe is a US columnist for The Guardian. He was most recently vice president and executive editor of MSNBC.com.[1][2] wiki
“During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama himself told veteran political reporter Richard Wolffe, ‘You’ll get more access than anyone else’.”
Favs.
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If you don’t understand that Wolfe is part of the establishment, that is hell bent on bringing down Trump, then you are living in the establishment’s universe. Impeachment is a political process, not a criminal one, and the process will continue, even if it can only thwart Trump’s agenda and clog the drain of the swamp with a few bodies.
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Why are Donald Trump and Jared Kushner such A**holes?
It is very simple, they are both SUCCESSFUL New York City Real Estate Developers, exactly the wrong experience for political office as they are of necessity BRIBERS. That is they have to BRIBE people to succeed.
This requires one-on-one personal meetings so that they have personal deniability.
Why are the Clintons also criminal?
It again is very simple, they are all BRIBEES. That is they take BRIBES.
This also requires one-on-one personal meeting so that they have personal deniability.
Both the Trump organization and the Clinton organization belong behind bars.
May they all share housing at Camp Fed.
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Along with the rest of Congress. Drain the swamp!
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They learned to bribe in the private sector, using their own money. Most politicians learn in the public sector, using the taxpayer’s money.
We weren’t electing a saint, just the better option.
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1. I’d rather you did not read nor quote fake news.
2. Our government was designed for internecine conflict between the branches of government in order to hobble oppression of the People.
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Trump is a liar – end of story
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Your attitude sums it up. Mish is wrong, both sides are right. There is no evidence against Trump but let’s impeach him anyway because you don’t like him.
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Sure got everyone diverted from silly trivialities like the Budget Standoff, and the ME/NA wars. It’s like governance has become a big reality tv show.
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It’s easier for TV to sell ‘Trump is the devil’ than a complicated war in the Middle East. And it aligns with their bias too.
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Comey basically called Trump a lying piece of shit. You can spin it all you like- it’s bad for Trump. We need him gone and a lot of Americans feel that way. That’s going to make things happen.
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it’s bad for Trump.
Please be serious.
Odds of impeachment plunged.
Calling that bad for Trump is absurd
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You want to see a real lying POS you need look no further than Killary, you moron.
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Has democrats done anything in the past 5 months besides chasing the ‘Russian story’? Enough is enough.
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It took 5 years investigating Hillary’s email server before we found out she was reckless with classified information. 5 months investigating Russian hacking and Trump Inc financial ties? That’s nothing. The investigation will not end and will be an issue in the 2020 election.
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Correction to your erroneous comment:
It took Comey the incompetent 5 years to investigate Hillary’s illegal email servers, even though Comey was operating from within the USA and with full subpoena powers.
It took “Guccifer, the hacker” less than a month to convict Hillary while operating from a nerd cave in Romania with zero support from the US legal system.
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I see you get your facts from Russia Today and Infowars.
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keep day dreaming about impeaching Trump. After the Comey sh!t show, even your MSNBC friends are telling you to give it up
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The FBI told Hillary we are investigating your unsecured emails, you must preserve the evidence. The Hillary team promptly destroyed the evidence, even using hammers. Comey’s FBI ignored that. Even so they found enough evidence that Hillary using unsecured email servers for secret US documents was a violation of law, but they ignored that, even though others have gone to jail for the same thing but much less serious. The FBI interviewed Clinton in the course of the investigation, but took no notes? I could go on and on, but ~
Who can really believe Comey was an objective investigator?
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Comey inadvertently screwed HRC while trying to save her. It was an easy peasy set up: plea to lesser charges (a misdemeanor), get one of her inner circle to take the blame, Obama gives complete pardon. Rule of law would have been satisfied (barely) and the media would be selling it as ‘no big deal’…….similar to Trump getting sued so much.
Fortunately HRC was too proud to take that option, or Comey and Lynch were too stupid to suggest it.
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Democrats are going to hound the President with lies and intimidation for the next four years. Just like the Republicans did to the prior President. This is America. It’s how we roll.
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What democrats are doing is outright malicious and treasonous. Their only goal is to impeach the POTUS by all means. This is totally un-American and unpatriotic.
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Your timeline is way off. Obama came into office and was given a chance.
Then he said things like ‘if you like your doctor…..’ and ‘tort reform is in the bill’. Further, the Democrats went on to pass Obamacare even after plenty of democratic feedback said stop: Christie wins blue New Jersey governorship, McConnell wins purple VA governorship by 20 points, Brown wins Kennedy Senate seat.
Trump, on the other hand, had an impeachment attack team of media and Democrats arranged against him BEFORE HE EVEN TOOK OFFICE. How does that work, anyway?
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This is how the establishment rolls, which has rolled the economy to the cliffs edge. You are missing the fact that the establishment Republicans are also sabatoging Trump.
It could be argued that the self-serving establishment has already pushed us off the cliff, and everyone thinks all is fine because they haven’t hit the ground yet, even though the hopium is nothing but foreign capital flows into US assets.
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The political war between the Democrats and the Republicans appears to be the story.
In late 2018 we will know the next great battle between them.
But for now, POTUS is increasingly looking like a LAME DUCK.
Not good as it means the “Status Quo” continues as the criminals in DC only want to protect themselves.
True Tax Reform? No.
True reduction in regulation on small business? No. Big business has the money to prevent that.
Only a crisis that the average voter recognizes can cause true change (for the good or for the bad).
But the average voter “believes” the lies told him, thus little hope.
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By simply enforcing existing laws that are already on the books, Trump already reduced illegal immigrants entering the US by 70%. He did that before a single brick of his “wall” was considered. That isn’t lame duck, rather it is more effective than any president in the last several decades.
Trump got China to start taking the mess in North Korea seriously — something Obama failed to do for eight years. Again, Trump succeeded in months where Obama failed for years.
Unlike Obama, who attacked Libya on orders from France, and attacked Syria on orders from the CIA, and launched a coup in Ukraine on orders from Soros — Trump has managed to stay out of Syria (so far) and hasn’t hired out the US military to political donors like Obama did.
Trump has pretty much reduced the unprofessional media outlets to a sniveling mess. Many people had gut feelings the media was biased before — but now the public knows not to trust WaPo or NYTimes or CNN. NYTimes is good for sudoku and crossword puzzles only.
While middle class Americans were suspicious of the criminal organizations manipulating Washington DC — Trump has exposed the system like Ross Perot never could. Sunlight gets rid of cockroaches, but its not instant gratification.
The extremist left wing cults indoctrinating students into debt slavery have been exposed (this might be more Peter Thiel than Trump, but its happening none the less). People are starting to question whether those graduation certificates are really worth the obscene inflation schools have charged. Education and wisdom are priceless — being indoctrinated into a cult for $80k a year is stupid.
I do wish Trump would repeal the fraud known as Obamacare. Outsourcing that to Paul Ryan was a mistake; all the criminals in Congress (including witch Pelosi) exempted themselves. They have no idea how bad the scam is. meanwhile, 8 million poor people have access to health insurance, but they still can’t afford health care.
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Fedwatcher, are you aware that The Donald wrote an Executive Order that for each new federal regulation, they have to cancel 2 old ones? If your information sources are places like CNN or MSNBC, I can understand why you have not heard that.
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And Sessions has ended the practice of the guilty corporatons making donations to political cronie to escape prosecution, which of course is why the establishment is trying to take down the AG – http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/07/sessions-ends-settlement-pay-outs-to-special-interests/.
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Don’t pay attention to the MSM ‘scoring’. The only thing they’ve gotten right is the success of Obama at winning elections (when he’s running). But they don’t get that they did that by accusing his critics of racism. I think the people deserve a mulligan, particularly the Obama voters in 2008. The racism charge is powerful, even 150 years after the end of slavery.
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What’s sad is that supposedly grown men, waste even one second of their lives giving half a toot about what this idiot or that idiot “said.” And then, just to make sure they double down on over the top idiocy, speculating and quarreling, like a gaggle of unusually developmentally challenged teenage girls, about what some idiot may have “meant” when he supposedly “said” something….. Even by the non existing standards of our pathetic, progressive dystopia, this whole farce has got to be about a new low point.
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+1000
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Sorry, lower lows are ahead, as the establishment loses its grip on the economy they built to serve themselves.
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All the MSM buzz is designed to disrupt the new administration from dismantling the deep state’s status quo and it’s intended direction. MSM is the deep state’s narrative and very few people believe any of it.
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Doesn’t matter much whether people believe it or not. It gets rammed down your throat like Iraq War II. Just needs legal justification to protect those orchestrating the witch hunts. Mueller is a pro, and will interview every person who had any contact with the Trump campaign or entered Trump Tower, call every phone number of every Trump campaign cell phone, pore over lists of those attending Trump rallies, etc. for Russian connections. No crimes are even alleged. This search for something to prosecute will go on for 4-8 years with selective Comey-style leaks to aid Democratic candidates and harm GOP candidates. It is Hillary’s 2016 campaign dream, now made permanent and institutionalized within USA.gov. When Mueller was hired by the NFL to investigate a domestic violence charge against football player Ray Rice, millions of documents and emails were reviewed, every person entering the building was investigated, thousands of phone numbers were called to interview every person possibly linked to the case. Imagine a political campaign: Mueller/Schumer can deconstruct millions of campaign contributions, emails, phone calls, tweets, Facebook posts, etc. looking for Russian connections. Meets the definition of witch hunt. Hatched by Schumer and DNC so Deep State operatives can deter 2020 GOP contributions (who wants to be investigated?). Every GOP campaign with a Trump White House link could be a Russia conduit. NSA archives of every phone call and email can be searched for Russia links. Schumer is a superb student of Leninist tactics. Neo-Bolsheviks and War Party minions who could not take power for the next 100 years via Hillary now have their campaign permanently institutionalized Spanish Inquisition style with a special persecutor. Salem witch hunts and McCarthy commie hearings will be surpassed, perhaps not by Mueller, but by his successors in the office of special persecutor with unlimited powers and budget to look for Russia connections in the GOP ancestry. A grand plan, worthy of another National Socialist party on another continent in a past century. Mises saw it coming, the totalitarian face of socialism, whether it be Lenin, Stalin, Schumer or Castro.
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Excellent analysis, Joelg5.
Amazing that with all the scandals (like domestic spying by NSA) under the Obama administration that an attack dog like Mueller was not called in to do an exhaustive investigation on the culprits involved.
Mueller is Deep State and has orders to bring Trump down – one way or the other. And the gov will provide any resources needed to get the job done.
This witch hunt is about as dirty as it gets.
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greg, I agree with everything in your post except the the last seven words.
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And Comey is part of the deep state and gang of four with a shady past that will do ANYTHING to protect their sociopathic state of mind and lifestyle.
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So Comey “leaked” the substance of his conversations with Trump. The same way Trump leaked the substance of his conversations with Comey: “While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation..”
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The POTUS has that privilege.
The FBI Director who reports to the POTUS doesn’t.
Why isn’t Loretta Lynch under investigation for demanding Comey to stop using the word “investigation” when referring to Hillary and instead use the word “matter”.
That’s a clear attempt to interfere with a criminal investigation.
Why no special counsel?
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What law did he break? He revealed no classified information, and he is not Trump’s attorney revealing privileged client information.
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Comey reported to the POTUS, as a government official.
He leaked proprietary and confidential information allegedly obtained during private conversations with the POTUS.for national dissemination.
He did this as a means for retribution because his head was on the chopping block.
Why no public release of the statement by Lynch demanding Comey to drop the word “investigation” re: Hillary and replace it with “matter”?
That was just as serious as his allegation of what Trump said.
You’d have to be blind not to see the obvious double standards.
If we can just all agree this is an obvious witch hunt against Trump – then we can begin on an honest premise and work our way forward.
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“He leaked proprietary and confidential information allegedly obtained during private conversations with the POTUS.for national dissemination. ”
Those are not legal terms, not when applied to government workers. It was not protected information.
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Then why do former FBI agents who author books on their experiences w/ the Bureau have to obtain strict government reviews and clearance authorizations through proper channels before their books are published? If that requirement was ignored don’t you think the legal hammer would fall on the violator?
Comey reported to Trump. Trump was his boss. Don’t you think it should be Trump’s prerogative what portions, if any, of an alleged private confidential conversation with a subordinate should be disseminated to the entire world?
Without some semblance of trust in private communications between high-ranking officials organizations would literally fall apart. Progress would be impeded or even compromised.
Trust is the glue that keeps organizations intact.
Comey claimed that Trump defamed him and the FBI.
Yet what did he do to Trump?
Comey is a hypocrite and a member of the Deep State determined to bring Trump down.
There were other high officials who committed much more grievous acts than Comey accuses Trump of doing. Yet Comey never even laid a glove on them. Comey is taking orders from the swamp dwellers.
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Obviously all partisan politics, to take down Trump or at least make sure that Obamacare and the USA’s All War All the Time policy expands from Syria to Iran and Russia. Schumer is the brains behind this witch hunt. All the players are connected (Dem-DNC/Deep State/Media are conjugal cooperators). Schumer is a master power broker, having engineered removing Sessions from the equation. If the Deputy AG leaves, a Dem crony of Preet Bharara in Virginia takes over. Masterful orchestration.
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Why hasn’t Susan Rice been indicted under the Espionage Act for her role in unmasking of Republicans while eavesdropping the Russians?
Should that not be pursued with the same intensity as when Valerie Plame had her identity exposed during the Bush presidency?
The Trump campaign was being spied on. Obama and anybody else on the ground during those final few months knew Hillary was in trouble and likely would lose. Her live events did not receive a winner’s welcome. In fact, she did best when kept out of sight. People were literally sick of seeing her. Can you recall when she passed out and had to be whisked away in a limo? It was awful and all too frequent.
Nobody in the MSM was going to say as much, but Obama, and certainly Biden, had to know the Pantsuit Princess was going down in flames.
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Muh Russians (trying to choose our next President) was really just a cover up for muh government (trying to choose our next President).
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McCain not having enough sleep? I thought the devil never sleeps.
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McCain is obviously getting senile. Unfortunately he’ll be around a few more years before the next election for his seat. Sad. Especially sad that he occupies a seat formerly held by a great American: Barry Goldwater.
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What a waste of time, effort, and taxpayer money.
Welcome to the snapchat, facebook, twitter world of creationists.
Comey, did himself no favors here..
Lynch and the Clintons got banged in the end, legally..
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Schumer is the brains behind this witch hunt. All the players are connected (Dem-DNC/Deep State/Media are conjugal cooperators). Schumer is a master power broker, having engineered removing Sessions from the equation. If the Deputy AG leaves, a Dem crony of Preet Bharara in Virginia takes over. Masterful orchestration.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/18/james-comey-trump-special-prosecutor-robert-mueller-fbi-215154
…To understand what they’re now up against, Trump’s embattled White House aides should spend the day reading Mueller’s 2015 report to the NFL, which recruited him to investigate the league’s culpability in Ray Rice’s domestic violence case. Mueller’s subsequent lengthy report oozes thoroughness and the unique gravitas of an experienced prosecutor—his team, some of whom will now be working alongside him in the Russia investigation, devoured millions of documents, text messages and emails; tracked down nearly every person who had been in the building; and called all 938 telephone numbers that called in and out of the league headquarters during the period in question. His rundown of the NFL headquarters’ procedures for receiving mail and packages alone runs to five pages—he almost surely learned things that the NFL’s own mailroom staff didn’t know about who signs for what packages when…
…What unfolds ahead will be territory all too familiar to both Comey and Mueller—the field of play where they have made their careers and risen to the highest levels of government—yet the way that a Washington scandal takes on a life of its own amid independent investigations and looming prosecutions is deeply unfamiliar to Trump and many associates around him. Few in Washington know this landscape better than Comey, who as deputy attorney general appointed his friend Patrick Fitzgerald as special prosecutor to lead the leak investigation surrounding Valerie Plame, a case that ultimately led to the dethroning of Cheney’s top aide, Scooter Libby. It is as if, after having an unrelated disagreement over movie trivia in a bar, Trump has challenged Usain Bolt to a 100-yard dash or John Cena to a cage match to the death…
…That hearing, purportedly into the politicization of the Justice Department and the partisan firings of U.S. attorneys by Ashcroft’s successor, Alberto Gonzales, was a carefully orchestrated yet seemingly spontaneous moment. The week before, Comey had carefully walked his former colleague Preet Bharara—then counsel to Senator Chuck Schumer—through the 2004 episode for the first time. “The hair stood up on the back of my neck, because I realized what a significant story this was, and I was sworn to secrecy and nobody knew about it,” Bharara told the New Yorker years later. The three men—Comey, Schumer and Bharara—kept quiet about the revelations in advance. “I was afraid that if the story got out of what Jim was going to say, the Bush administration would figure out a way to prevent him from testifying,” Bharara recalled later. “We needed to preserve the element of surprise.” Then, in the public hearing, they sprung the trap—with Schumer offering a leading but seemingly innocuous question, the congressional equivalent of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ famed “One last thing.”
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What I find both amusing and at the same time disturbing is that a century or two earlier the type of social interactions were of a religious nature with attendant biases and hatred but seem to be base on political beliefs, as if the latter superseded but without the pretense of moral dogma. When Niche opined that God was dead he was referring to the third estate in France being legislated our of existence in terms of political power. But political power has subsumed religion and become the ultimate search for that religious paradise as espoused by Milton and Marx. “Politics is a religion, Mr Beale, and I want you to teach this evangel.” “Why me?” “Because you are on the internet, dummy.”
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Shot: Comey saw his boss getting slandered in the press and did nothing………until he felt he was slandered by Trump and rushed to correct the record.
Chaser: Trump is bad because he asked for loyalty!
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How about someone ask Seth Rich how important loyalty is?
Oops! Never mind, I forgot, we can’t do that anymore.
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“How to Play the Game”
The Fake News game. Local news is the only MSM i watch any more.
Fortunately, i do not rely on even MSM local news for the truth. Even they are painting a false picture.
Objective news is being suppressed by the MSM.
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“2. The mainstream media accusations of Russian collusion were inaccurate.”
Deliberately inaccurate. Over 90% of media personal donations go to the Democratic Party. The MSM is suppressing the truth. The MSM is a propaganda operation.
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If you don’t think Wolffe’s dream of impeachment is real, you are living in the establishment’s universe. If you are thinking that the establishment and Wolfe are impotent in bringing on impeachment hearings, then you don’t understand the political nature of impeachments or their history. You also don’t understand how desperate and deranged the establishment is – https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/product/the-impeachment-of-donald-trump/
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Reblogged this on sentinelblog.
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Both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny
J.S. Mill
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Reblogged this on World Peace Forum.
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Reblogged this on John Barleycorn and commented:
Comey is a bit like Hillary, angry and unemployed.
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