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yetskimama
Walterboro, SC
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@ big Guy maybe you can tape it??? Try Ok
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thebigugly0
Kent, OH
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Not even gonna lie, Ski. I am sick to death of people whining over politics. I have no interest in it.
I am living a decent enough life. Nobody getting fired or elected or going out of office has hurt me or mine.
If people are happy enough, then leave it go as the status quo. If they want change, revolt. Stop b*tching and do something or accept it.
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yetskimama
Walterboro, SC
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Not b*tching big Guy... I'm good ,all my Friends 're good we live a comfy Life. .. and just can't take the Donald ....many years before he became the President. 
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thebigugly0
Kent, OH
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It's rampant, Ski. Ever peek in to the Politics thread? Madness.
I've noticed people since Jimmy Carter was president. I was only a grade school kid then, but thought to myself, "Don't people have anything better to do than complain he's a peanut farmer?"
Then Reagan was a "doddering old fool who loved Jelly Bellies" we shouldn't allow access to the button to.
Bush was a liar with his "No New Taxes" speech.
Clinton was a philandering pot headed cracker.
Bush pt. II was a bumbling coke head.
Obama was completely out of place as president, non birth right taking the U.S. into Islam and not worrying about his beloved Chicago being a murder haven.
Now the reality star mogul cum tax cheat.
It just gets tiresome.
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yetskimama
Walterboro, SC
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@BIG Guy , I think I agree with some of your saying, I just want for all the a**hole to know that my Husband and so very many man didn't fight for freedom overseas 3 times ' leaving Fam and everything behind . ... I'll stop
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uber_goober
Danielsville, GA
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I'll be working. And even if I wasn't, I have no tv service. Just Internet and Netflix etc. I am curious at what will happen when this first thread is tugged on out of this mare's nest tangle that the current president balled up. Time and future hearings will tell. Or not tell.
Yettenzie liebchen 
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yetskimama
Walterboro, SC
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I want to know why him and Son in law like Putin so much..
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M4mischief
Grand Prairie, TX
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Nahhhhhh...i'll just read about it after the fact.... 
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pento4
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Austin Petersen's Freedom Ninja Army
2 hrs ·
Can anybody give the best libertarian argument against the Paris agreement?
Arnt Rune Flekstad ,,,,,,Ayn Rand died in 1982, but she nailed the problem with the Paris climate treaty way back in the 1960s and 1970s when she wrote:
Now observe that in all the propaganda of the [environmentalists]—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature”—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the [environmentalists] envision—i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears . . . .
In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which means that he has to alter his background and adapt it to his needs.
Nature has not equipped him for adapting himself to his background in the manner of animals. From the most primitive cultures to the most advanced civilizations, man has had to manufacture things; his well-being depends on his success at production. The lowest human tribe cannot survive without that alleged source of pollution: fire. It is not merely symbolic that fire was the property of the gods which Prometheus brought to man. The [environmentalists] are the new vultures swarming to extinguish that fire.
And:
Without machines and technology, the task of mere survival is a terrible, mind-and-body-wrecking ordeal. In “nature,” the struggle for food, clothing and shelter consumes all of a man’s energy and spirit; it is a losing struggle—the winner is any flood, earthquake or swarm of locusts. (Consider the 500,000 bodies left in the wake of a single flood in Pakistan; they had been men who lived without technology.) To work only for bare necessities is a luxury that mankind cannot afford.
It’s not just the Paris climate treaty. It’s environmentalism itself. As Rand points out, anything that mankind does to better its own survival is considered “pollution”. Back in the 1970s, the focus was on smog. Smog eventually became less of a problem, because improvements in technology brought about by science and the market improved conditions.
Today the fixation is climate change. The obsession with climate change follows a warmer than average summer with cries of “global warming” and a colder than average winter with cries of “new ice age”. Leaving aside our inability to accurately predict the weather three days ahead, much less three centuries ahead, we’re told to accept — uncritically, outside the boundaries of science — that all such problems are automatically and always man-made.
The Paris treaty is a war against human mastery over the environment and, as Rand pointed out, against man himself. It’s also a war against the United States, since the United States has the most to lose from such a treaty, which it will follow, while nations such as China and Russia will never follow it.
Rand presciently labeled the early ecology/environmentalist movement “the anti-industrial revolution”. That’s precisely what environmentalism was — and still is.
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BAM,,DROP's MIC
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cherisays
Bloomingdale, GA
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Damn right P2P, while I am not a bible thumper I do believe oil and everything that comes from it is a gift to us from God. Yes we need to be stewards of the earth but these libtards want to deny us our gifts! F**k them..
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yetskimama
Walterboro, SC
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I have many thoughts on this one.
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pento4
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Humans are not the stewards of the planet, we are the Cancer/Virus/C*ckroaches. All we do is multiply & destroy everything we touch. The very definition of cancer/virus/c*ckroach
I (as a libertarian that leans way over to the conservative side) think Oil & coal are totally & completly outdated & nasty. Completely useless when we have the technology to harness the sun & wind. But human nature is to exploit it until it is completly depleted. And Capitalism big money wont let it until the sun is more profitable.
But all arguments are mute,,With what Japan is pumping into the Pacific the oceans will be dead in 25 years. And with no oceans there is no eco systems, ALL LIFE DIES, OUR FATE IS SEALED!!!!
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cherisays
Bloomingdale, GA
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Well damn I totally mis-read you...at least now you know my thoughts. And No, we are not parasites on the earth..we are living the dream given to us by God. Sorry you see it different.
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pento4
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All arguments are mute,,With what Japan is pumping into the Pacific, the oceans will be dead in 25 years. And with no oceans there is no eco systems, ALL LIFE DIES, OUR FATE IS SEALED!!!!
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stl1
Saint Louis, MO
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Yours are always my favorites!
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bumblebee7
Fort Payne, AL
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Hillary and Obama called Russia the enemy publicly several times. Which I didn't like, because the cold war and the Berlin wall and the surrounding countries that Russia took as a reward for their help in WW11 that formed the Soviet Union was finally abolished in the '80's.... and could all resurface if we continued to look at them that way...the enemy..
I think Russia simply favored Trump, because he didn't want that to happen, thus didn't refer to them as the enemy and they didn't want to be looked at in that way.
We had peace finally with Russia after all those years of fear of a nuclear war and the cold war and they were fine, until Obama criticized them over something he should have kept his nose out of....and that started a few of the problems that came up after Obama did that.
So to me, that's what the deal is, they simply favored Trump over a President that would consider them the enemy....maybe they just want peace too.
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bumblebee7
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The other thing about Russia is, they are about the second largest producers of oil in the world today.
If something happened in the middle east that cut off our oil from them, and Russia was considered our enemy again...and they wouldn't send us any oil....then we would be up shit creek without a paddle.
We don't have all this secret oil like people think...if we did, they wouldn't be out in the ocean drilling for it.
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yetskimama
Walterboro, SC
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I know Putin plays the Donald[ don't know about the Russian People]] But like That Murderer told us ... DON"T WORRY >>>> BE HAPPY> SCREW PUTIN AND HIS FRIENDS""
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stanleyzee
Dayton, OH
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The other thing about Russia is, they are about the second largest producers of oil in the world today.
If something happened in the middle east that cut off our oil from them, and Russia was considered our enemy again...and they wouldn't send us any oil....then we would be up shit creek without a paddle.
We don't have all this secret oil like people think...if we did, they wouldn't be out in the ocean drilling for it.
Herbert Armstrong predicted in 1978 that WW3 would be over oil
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yetskimama
Walterboro, SC
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Hillary and Obama called Russia the enemy publicly several times. Which I didn't like, because the cold war and the Berlin wall and the surrounding countries that Russia took as a reward for their help in WW11 that formed the Soviet Union was finally abolished in the '80's.... and could all resurface if we continued to look at them that way...the enemy..
I think Russia simply favored Trump, because he didn't want that to happen, thus didn't refer to them as the enemy and they didn't want to be looked at in that way.
We had peace finally with Russia after all those years of fear of a nuclear war and the cold war and they were fine, until Obama criticized them over something he should have kept his nose out of....and that started a few of the problems that came up after Obama did that.
So to me, that's what the deal is, they simply favored Trump over a President that would consider them the enemy....maybe they just want peace too.[/quote
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scoobs78
Kansas City, MO
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I want to know why the Donald fired the FBI Director and why Putin feels the need to protect this President. [ Putin told all of us ..DON't WORRY BE HAPPY"" }
He already said to that NBC reporter that he fired him for not shutting down the Russia investigation (obstruction of justice btw!)
Btw yes I will be watching it I have the day off Thursday! We may see the final nail in the coffin of trumps presidency! Not holding my breath tho since the republican heavy congress is allowing this bs and not getting thier top legislative things passed like healthcare, infostructure n tax reform!
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scoobs78
Kansas City, MO
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Tell you the trues, I'll sorry for the people working for him it has to be a Nightmare to go the work in the Morning. 
Wouldn't u love to be part of his communications staff? All yesterday they tried to tell people to ignore the tweets because it's not policy and trump tweets out this morning saying that yeah what I say is real I meant it!
Poor Shaun spicer I kinda feel sorry for him and that Sebastian guy trying to spin things with Chris cuomo on CNN yesterday mornining
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yetskimama
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Wouldn't u love to be part of his communications staff? All yesterday they tried to tell people to ignore the tweets because it's not policy and trump tweets out this morning saying that yeah what I say is real I meant it!
Poor Shaun spicer I kinda feel sorry for him and that Sebastian guy trying to spin things with Chris cuomo on CNN yesterday mornining
Yes, I do feel sorry for Spicer and many of the other good people ... I have never liked that guy long time he became a President.Glad you 'll be watching we can exchange our Thoughts afterward. Have a good day
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yetskimama
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As of today I'm on Bed Rest again::rolleyes So Thursday 'll be a perfect Day to watch the Hearing. 
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hissykissflips
New York, NY
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Nah I think I'll just pay my taxes and keep it pushin'
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yetskimama
Walterboro, SC
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Yah, 2 things we must do,pay or Taxes and Die...
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stanleyzee
Dayton, OH
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Yets
It's on now
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stanleyzee
Dayton, OH
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Guess Trump will be tweeting
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criminal_1
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/08/live-stream-james-comey-testimony-before-senate-intelligence-committee/102593866/
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criminal_1
FPO, AP
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Ding ding
Trump tried to bribe him to let him keep his job.
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Olaf_the_german
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No, I'll watch or read the highlights in the evening or throughout the day..some of us have to work for a living!
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stanleyzee
Dayton, OH
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Ding ding
Trump tried to bribe him to let him keep his job.  and Germany me worked for 27 years
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criminal_1
FPO, AP
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He says without a doubt the Russians influenced our elections. !00%.
Why did "they" want Trump?
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stanleyzee
Dayton, OH
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He says without a doubt the Russians influenced our elections. !00%.
Why did "they" want Trump?
Revelation13.netur welcome
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Olaf_the_german
Houston, TX
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He says without a doubt the Russians influenced our elections. !00%.
Well so did many things...But lets not assume simply because a disgruntled ex employee says something it must be true 
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kandykayn
Clarksville, TN
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Russia is the bear in Revelations.
America is the Eagle
Europe is the Lion
Middle East Muslim countries are the leopard.
Trump is building an allegiance that he can use even after his presidency. The next President will cut this off given the allegations of foreign tampering and influence in our elections and may bring WW3.
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Olaf_the_german
Houston, TX
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Russia is the bear in Revelations.
America is the Eagle
Europe is the Lion
Middle East Muslim countries are the leopard.
so who are the 4 horsemen?
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kandykayn
Clarksville, TN
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Im not 100% in the know on that one.
Z???
Who do you feel are the four horsemen??
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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It was kind of obvious that Russia was involved in the elections because on Facebook and Twitter you would always see a bunch of fake accounts that were obvious Russians constantly pushing Trump supporting articles that came from Russia sponsored news sites.
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gdaddy47
Columbia, TN
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He says without a doubt the Russians influenced our elections. !00%.
Why did "they" want Trump?
No he didn't. He said they tried to do everything they could to interfere. He said
"They will be back". "Russia is Republican or Democrat"
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uber_goober
Danielsville, GA
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Gonna have to do some reading on the recaps of today's hearing. And listen to some news on the radio on my way home. The tiny thumbnail sketch so far does not look good.
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scoobs78
Kansas City, MO
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Ding ding
Trump tried to bribe him to let him keep his job.
Pledge loyalty to Trump not the constitution! He didn't even raise his hand to his heart on Easter Sunday during the national anthem! His freakin Slovenian wife had to nudge him! As a president that's kinda disrespectful to his country and the fact that he doesn't know much about our history and who we bombed! He said we bombed Iraq but a "fake news" media reporter had to remind our groper_in_chief that the MOAB bomb hit an airbase in seria 
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scoobs78
Kansas City, MO
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It was kind of obvious that Russia was involved in the elections because on Facebook and Twitter you would always see a bunch of fake accounts that were obvious Russians constantly pushing Trump supporting articles that came from Russia sponsored news sites.
Flynn got $45,000 for doing a speech on Russia Today! While conservatives were crying: "pay for play Clinton foundation was illegal!"
Kushner n trump families are definitely enriching themselves while poppa trump in da White House trying to undo a few hundred years worth of laws n checks n balances!
Trump boys were just in Dubai a month or so ago opening a new "trump" labeled golf course of course with taxpayer paid secret servicemen n I'm sure we paid for thier trip too!
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pento4
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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Comey vs. Trump: Obstructing the Truth
A thorough review of Comey's testimony, its background, and why it's important.
Nate Jackson · Jun. 9, 2017
As you would expect, our editorial team has thoroughly reviewed the statement released Wednesday by former FBI Director James Comey, as well as his subsequent testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday.
As we anticipated, Democrats picked up plenty of additional fodder for media collusion to propagate the fake news Trump/Putin conspiracy theory and claim that Trump obstructed the FBI investigation of his former national security advisor, Mike Flynn. The sole objective of the DemoMSM charade is to obstruct Donald Trump’s conservative agenda, but as Mark Alexander wrote Wednesday, there is “no smoking gun.”
Indeed, as Barack Obama’s former CIA director, Michael Morell, said of the Trump/Putin connection, “There’s no little campfire, there’s no little candle, there’s no spark. And there’s a lot of people looking for it.”
That notwithstanding, depending on which side of the political aisle you’re on, Comey’s testimony was either much ado about nothing, or proof of the most corrupt and heinous administration in the history of the Republic.
Before getting into the details of Comey’s testimony, in our editors meeting this morning, Mr. Alexander offered this brief analytical summary of the Trump/Comey dispute:
“In May, Trump bushwhacked Comey by firing him shortly after his testimony before Congress, in part because he would not say publicly what Comey confirmed he told Trump privately on three occasions — that Trump was not a target of the Russia investigation. Clearly, DemoMSM propaganda consortium are using their cooked-up Trump/Putin conspiracy to impede Trump’s agenda, and by extension that of the Republican Congress, by undermining the legitimacy of his election.
"Trump then fumbled his explanation of why he fired Comey, first insisting it was based on his malfeasance in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s clear and deliberate lies about concealing her communications. Most notably, after his surprise public comment about the FBI’s investigation of Clinton, a week later Comey declared her not guilty just prior to the 2016 election. (Though Clinton has reiterated her claim that Comey hurt her campaign, ‘clearing Clinton’ undoubtedly helped her.)
"Comey admitted Thursday that he, in turn, then bushwhacked Trump by leaking notes on his conversation with Trump about Flynn, to the New York Times. He affirmed that he did so in order to prompt the appointment of a special prosecutor to further investigate Trump.
"Got that – Comey did not think his conversation as FBI Director with Trump about Flynn warranted filing any concern or report with his superiors at the Department of Justice, but then leaked his notes about that conversation to the Demo’s chief MSM ally, The New York Times, hoping that leak would plague the Trump administration with an independent counsel investigation. That unethical, if not feloniously illegal subterfuge, established just how ‘political’ Comey actually is, which is to say he is at best, ‘power drunk’ on water from the Potomac, if not partisan.
"It is clear that Comey’s primary motivation for leaking those notes was not his devotion to our Constitution, but because he wanted to vindicate his reputation after being fired. Indeed, Trump recklessly used his dullard Twitter feed to defame Comey and the FBI, accusing him of mismanagement at the Bureau, and painting the agency as having lost trust in Comey, and being in disarray.
"Despite Comey’s assertion that Trump lied about that disarray, we know for a fact that there were and are divisive concerns among the FBI rank and file about the political implications of Comey’s actions, both with Clinton and now with Trump. But it was inexcusable for Trump to defame Comey by way of his now infamously absurd, sophomoric and boorish social media posts.
"That unforced error was followed by another — Trump’s asinine Tweet about "tapes” of his conversation with Comey: ‘James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!’ That was a failed effort to head off anything Comey might release to the press. This sequence was yet another example of why we have argued repeatedly, that Trump needs to “stop saying stupid sh-t,” as if he still controls his reality-TV show script. Apparently he — and his confidants who vetted those Comey posts — still errantly believe they control the script.
“It is not enough to excuse Trump’s communication disasters by suggesting he is ‘just inexperienced.’ The problem is not inexperience, but unmitigated arrogance.
"Again, the endless loop of DemoMSM Trump/Putin collusion conspiracy coverage is baseless and nothing more than a political diversion and obfuscation tactic. I do not believe anything Trump said to Comey about the investigation of Flynn rises to the level of obstruction of justice. I do not believe that Robert Mueller as special prosecutor, would have allowed Comey to testify if he believed there were grounds for an obstruction case against Trump.
"But, unfortunately for Trump’s agenda to restore some semblance of constitutional Rule of Law, he has carelessly and self-destructively fueled the flames of the DemoMSM diversion where there was otherwise not a puff of smoke. And the resulting cost to Liberty is enormous.”
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pento4
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On to the details of Comey’s testimony…
There are four key facets to Comey’s testimony: The obstruction accusation, Comey’s leaking information, Loretta Lynch’s obstruction of justice (and by extension, that of her boss, Obama) in the Clinton investigation, and the media’s lies. Let’s look at each one.
First, the most salient question: Did Trump obstruct justice? The Trump-hating Washington Post, which is dying to relive its own glory days of 1974 when it brought down a Republican president, says yes. Yet the story under the damning headline, “James Comey lays out the case that President Trump obstructed justice,” doesn’t quite live up to the hype. If, as the Trump haters allege, the president told Comey to drop the investigation into Flynn, fired Comey when he didn’t comply, and then lied about the reason for his firing, then that’s a plausible argument for obstruction of justice.
But if Comey’s written testimony is accurate, Trump fired Comey for refusing to acknowledge publicly that Trump himself was not being investigated. Again, Comey told Trump that privately three times, but would not go public. Given the 24/7 Leftmedia hyperventilation over the phony Russian collusion narrative, Trump’s request was understandable — he wanted to disperse the cloud hanging over his administration. It’s especially logical given Comey’s history of, ahem, exonerating Hillary Clinton after laying out how she in fact broke the law. So, if that’s the reason, even if Trump fired Comey in a less-than-desirable manner and then contradicted his staff on the reasons, it was not obstruction of justice.
That said, in his spoken testimony, Comey asserted, “I know I was fired because something about the way I was conducting the Russia investigation was putting pressure on [Trump].” He added, “I was fired in some way to change, or the endeavor was to change the way the Russia investigation was being conducted.” As he said, that’s a “very big deal,” albeit not at all criminal.
And, regarding Trump’s “hope” that Comey would stop the Flynn probe: “I took it as a direction,” Comey said. “I took it as what he wants me to do.”
Yet in answering several variations of the question, Comey repeatedly said Trump did not ask him at any point to stop any investigation into Russian election interference, and Comey did nothing at the time to report or otherwise flag Trump’s improper behavior.
We’ll see what special investigator Robert Mueller — a good buddy of Comey’s, by the way — thinks soon enough.
Second, Comey made a stunning admission of his own vindictiveness: After his firing, he helped leak his own notes to the press specifically to undermine Trump and to prompt the appointing of a special counsel to investigate. Why? Because, the former FBI director alleged, the president is a liar. “I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting and so I felt it important to document,” Comey said when asked why he took notes from his meetings with Trump when he did not do so with Barack Obama or George W. Bush. He also said Trump’s tweet about having taped conversations prompted him to leak his notes.
On one point, Comey is correct: “The administration … chose to defame me and more importantly the FBI by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led,” he said. “Those were lies, plain and simple. And I’m so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them, and I’m so sorry the American people were told them.” Trump’s tweets were incredibly foolish and defamatory.
Sen. Marco Rubio, of all people, came to Trump’s defense, telling Comey, “The only thing that’s never been leaked is the fact that the president was not personally under investigation.” Isn’t that telling? Indeed, every leak — including those perpetrated by Comey himself (was he behind others leaks?) — has been designed to undermine and delegitimize the president. Any information that might benefit Trump was kept under wraps.
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Third, Comey had dirt on former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, too. As he testified previously, she told him not to refer to the Clinton “investigation” but rather the “matter.” He explained, “I don’t know whether it was intentional or not but it gave the impression that the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way the political campaign was describing the same activity, which was inaccurate. We had a criminal investigation open for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
The real obstruction of justice? Lynch’s clandestine tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton during the investigation into his wife’s illegal use of a non-secure email server to pass top-secret communications while she was secretary of state. Or perhaps Obama’s lie about when he learned of Clinton’s use of that server. Or perhaps his attempts to influence the outcome of that investigation by publicly downplaying Clinton’s willful lawlessness on more than one occasion. Or perhaps Clinton’s use of BleachBit to destroy thousands of emails after they were under congressional subpoena.
The Leftmedia largely ignored those very real obstructions, but perhaps Hillary has a new passenger for her blame train.
Finally, the New York Times published fake news, and the Left hung a narrative on it. On Feb. 14, the day after Flynn resigned, the Times published a story headlined, “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence.”
“In the main, it was not true,” Comey stated. Asked later if the story was “almost entirely wrong,” Comey answered, “Yes.”
Indeed, the story itself, in the third paragraph, noted, “The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that, so far, they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.” Kind of undermines the headline, doesn’t it? And yet the Times story became the centerpiece of the nascent narrative of collusion, which Democrats and their Leftmedia allies have only doubled down on since then. As Comey put it, the challenge for the intelligence community is not being able to correct the record on sensitive information. “[The] people talking about it often don’t really know what is going on,” he said. “And those of us who actually know what’s going on aren’t talking about it. And we don’t call the press to say, ‘Hey, you got that thing wrong about this sensitive topic.’ We just have to leave it there.” That’s why leaks are doubly damaging — which Comey ought to have taken to heart.
To sum it up, Comey emerged looking petty, vindictive and agenda-driven. Trump came out looking like a blundering and self-contradictory CEO who acted improperly at times — but, critically, one who does not seem to have broken any laws, or colluded with Russia. There’s no impeachable offense here. Just politically costly ones.
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