Facts Matter: Let's not advance Trump's agenda re: Comey

[Sculpin Beauregard]

Everyone, left and right, is on the 'Comey is a partisan hack' bandwagon, a big ol' hatefest from both sides. Trump is tweeting anti-Comey tweets as of last night. I wonder why...

Remember, Comey, back in the summer, wanted to go public about the fact that there was/is a Trump-Russia investigation. Obama admin WOULDN'T ALLOW IT.

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.newsweek.com/fbi-director-james-comey-russian-tampering-election-576417%3Famp%3D1

[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. And here is Trump's tweet

Link to tweet

[ElementaryPenguin]

2. I agree. Comey is taking Trump down!

[Sculpin Beauregard]

3. This is a good thing. Also, 2 grand juries confirmed.

[okieinpain]

4. i would have imagined people would have made

Obama/comey the super conspiracy of the year if the Russia/trump hack had been reported during the 2016 election. it seems to be damned if you do, damned if you don't

[Sculpin Beauregard]

5. That's sort of the theme. But Comey is being

unfairly scapegoated, and it would benefit Trump for him to get fired.

[WinkyDink]

6. Nothing precludes Comey from being a partisan hack for Republicans and yet anti-Trump. Hello, PENCE?

[Sculpin Beauregard]

7. Pence is in it up to his neck. He will go down too.

Remember how he pretended not to know about Flynn's issues when there is a letter from Elijah Cummings, to Pence, confirming Pence was told about Flynn? OBSTRUCTION.

Facts matter.

[okieinpain]

8. true. n/t.

[okieinpain]

9. unfairly i'm not sure, but for me a lot of what

happened to Clinton got explained. like it or not some of her and her families doings came back to bite her in the butt.

[L. Coyote]

10. Always check what the trolls are up to.

Gives a really good idea of what narrative is being pushed: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=comey

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[world wide wally]

11. People keep talking about how "something" could have been found in Clinton's emails...

Can ANYBODY tell me what this something could possibly have been that would have been so "catastrophic"?

[NewRedDawn]

12. Wrong!

Comey & the FBI did NOT want to say Russia was involved in hacking. It was the other Intelligence Agencies who were first on the record. And Obama wanted a Bi-Partisan response but Comey, McConnel, & Ryan refused. I know you linked to the above article, but the news media had reported previously otherwise.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

13. Links?

According to this Politico article, it looked like 'top WH officials blocked it because it wasn't bipartisan. They didn't want to 'do Russia's job for them' by sowing discord. McConnell wouldn't cooperate.

This was a WH call.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/obama-russia-hacking-trump-214976

[NewRedDawn]

14. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/james-comey-election.html?_r0

Mr. Comey and other senior administration officials met twice in the White House Situation Room in early October to again discuss a public statement about Russian meddling. But the roles were reversed: Susan Rice, the national security adviser, wanted to move ahead. Mr. Comey was less interested in being involved.

At their second meeting, Mr. Comey argued that it would look too political for the F.B.I. to comment so close to the election, according to several people in attendance. Officials in the room felt whiplashed. Two months earlier, Mr. Comey had been willing to put his name on a newspaper article; now he was refusing to sign on to an official assessment of the intelligence community.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

15. Read the politico article. The order came from WH.

[L. Coyote]

16. trump's worried and wants to delegitimize Comey and investigation.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Sculpin Beauregard]

17. Giuliani is a dirty scumbag, and is complicit in TrumpRussia.

[LaydeeBug]

18. I'll believe it when I see it. nt

[Nevermypresident]

19. Sorry but I saw Comey's (it's all about meeee) and the

sanctity of the FBI spiel today.

What's more important... our democracy or Comey's selfrighteousness and the FBI?! After all, he said today that Russia posed the greatest threat to our country.

Whether it was his summer emails press conference and/or the "letter" 11 days before the election, he made a serious error in judgment.

Therefore, I hope for the best but fear the worst.