Unintended Admission- James Comey’s Pathetic Last Act
On the eve of his formal book launch, former FBI Director James Comey’s pre-launch circuit of media appearances are having a most ironic consequence- the unintended admission by Comey that President Donald Trump was right in firing him last May.
In a self-serving, self-righteous and altogether churlish interview with former Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos on ABC Sunday Night, Comey revealed a personal hatred of the president- one which is all-consuming and innately visceral from the depths of his soul (assuming he has one), and one that would effectively disqualify him from being in any law enforcement position.
Comparing the president to a mob boss and assailing Trump’s character in a way that transcends political and professional differences going right to the core of vengeful animosity, Comey essentially told a watching audience that he was and is incapable of impartiality- towards Trump and towards former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
While claiming that he personally didn’t vote in the 2016 Presidential election, even though his wife and all of his daughters did so and that they all marched in protest on the day of Trump’s inauguration, Comey effectively admitted that he “put in the fix” on Hillary Clinton’s exoneration in July of 2016. He said he did so because he believed in the certainty of her election and wanted to avoid the “delegitimization” of such an election by clearing Clinton of scandal resulting from her illegal use of a private e-mail server and distribution of classified e-mails to unauthorized personnel, including the pedophile husband of her aide Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner. When it became apparent that classified information was in fact on Weiner’s laptop, as a result of this illegal distribution, he re-opened the investigation and said so in a letter he sent to Congress, on October 27, 2106- a fortnight prior to the election.
What Comey was really trying to do with the release of that letter was to cover his hind quarters in the unlikely event that Trump would win the election, by getting in good graces with Republicans on the House Oversight Committee.
Comey’s double-dealing did not end there.
It is recalled that while Comey mentioned the information contained in the Clinton-funded dossier, when he conferred with the newly-elected president in January of 2017, he stressed that there was no evidence that the information was credible, and that it was deemed to be salacious and without merit. At the same time, Comey never told the president the origin of the information, that it was a dossier funded by Clinton, and he never told the president that this dossier was used to obtain FISA warrants to surveil Trump campaign operatives.
Four months later, he leaked information contained in his notes following his meeting(s) with Trump to The New York Times through a third party, knowing that it would prompt the appointment of a special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to investigate Trump and knowing that Rosenstein would appoint his mentor and friend, Robert Mueller, to that post.
Never in the history of the FBI has there been a more corrupt, more dishonest, more partisan and more vindictive director than James Comey, and Trump was absolutely correct in firing him when he did. Not even J. Edgar Hoover (whose own battles with President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy became the stuff of legends), would ever stoop the depths that James Comey has exhibited in his actions at the behest of Hillary Clinton, and at the targeted detriment of a duly-elected president, one Donald J. Trump.
When it becomes evident (not to mention acceptable) to the mainstream media that an FBI director can play fast and loose with the law, to benefit one presidential candidate over another he deems to be “unworthy” of the office the candidate seeks, and when that FBI director is hailed to be some kind of “patriot” who seeks to prevent the election of someone he personally despises, we have arrived upon a time when there are no longer the maxims of fidelity, bravery and integrity at the highest levels of a law enforcement bureau which once stood for such principles.
In his egregious effort to bring down a duly-elected president, by engaging in a churlish attempt to disparage Trump’s character all the while doing so to promote the sales of his own book, former FBI Director James Comey has unwittingly vouchsafed Trump’s decision to fire him, at very least. Comey has also unwittingly likened himself to a lady of the street, plying her trade to anyone willing to fork up the dough, and this is simply the kind of individual who never should have been appointed to the directorship of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the first place…
…advantage, Trump.
-Drew Nickell, 16 April 2018
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