James Comey's Book Is Out - "Comey describes Trump as a congenital liar and unethical leader, devoid of human emotion and driven by personal ego."
James Comey’s memoir: Trump fixates on proving lewd dossier allegations false
President Trump, center, shakes hands with then-FBI director James B. Comey during a law enforcement reception at the White House in January 2017. (Andrew Harrer/European Pressphoto Agency)
The nation’s intelligence chiefs had just finished briefing Donald Trump on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election when FBI Director James B. Comey stayed behind to discuss some especially sensitive material: a “widely circulated” intelligence dossier contained unconfirmed allegations that Russians had filmed Trump interacting with prostitutes in Moscow in 2013.
The president-elect quickly interrupted the FBI director. According to Comey’s account in a new memoir, Trump “strongly denied the allegations, asking — rhetorically, I assumed — whether he seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes. He then began discussing cases where women had accused him of sexual assault, a subject I had not raised. He mentioned a number of women, and seemed to have memorized their allegations.”
The January 2017 conversation at Trump Tower in Manhattan “teetered toward disaster” — until “I pulled the tool from my bag: ‘We are not investigating you, sir.’ That seemed to quiet him,” Comey writes.
Trump did not stay quiet for long. Comey describes Trump as having been obsessed with the prostitutes portion of the infamous dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, raising it at least four times with the FBI head. The document claimed that Trump had watched the prostitutes urinate on themselves in the same Moscow suite that President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama stayed in previously “as a way of soiling the bed,” Comey writes.
Trump offered varying explanations to convince Comey it was not true. “I’m a germaphobe,” Trump told him in a follow-up call on Jan. 11, 2017, according to Comey’s account. “There’s no way I would let people pee on each other around me. No way.” Later, the president asked what could be done to “lift the cloud” because it was so painful for first lady Melania Trump.
Then, on May 9, 2017, Trump fired Comey, leading to the Justice Department special counsel’s Russia investigation.
The discussions about the Steele dossier — which Comey recounts for the first time in his book — are among a number of explosive revelations in “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,” a 304-page tell-all in which the former FBI director details his private interactions with Trump as well as his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
The Washington Post obtained a copy of the book before its scheduled release on Tuesday.
In his memoir, Comey paints a devastating portrait of a president who built “a cocoon of alternative reality that he was busily wrapping around all of us.” Comey describes Trump as a congenital liar and unethical leader, devoid of human emotion and driven by personal ego.
FBI Director James B. Comey appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2017. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Comey narrates in vivid detail, based on his contemporaneous notes, instances in which Trump violated the norms protecting the FBI’s independence in attempts to coerce Comey into being loyal to him — such as during a one-on-one dinner in the White House residence.
Interacting with Trump, Comey writes, gave him “flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the Mob. The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.”
The result, in Comey’s telling, is “the forest fire that is the Trump presidency.”
“What is happening now is not normal,” he writes. “It is not fake news. It is not okay.”
Comey describes a Feb. 14, 2017, meeting in the Oval Office where Trump asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to clear the room so he could bring up the FBI investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn directly with Comey — a key event in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of whether Trump sought to obstruct justice.
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump said, according to Comey’s account of the meeting, some of which he first shared in Senate testimony last year. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
Comey writes that he regrets not interrupting Trump to explain that his plea was wrong. He recalls later confronting Sessions, whom he describes as “both overwhelmed and overmatched by the job.”
“You can’t be kicked out of the room so he can talk to me alone,” Comey told Sessions, according to the book. “You have to be between me and the president.”
Comey also recounts new observations: “Sessions just cast his eyes down at the table, and they darted quickly back and forth, side to side. He said nothing. I read in his posture and face a message that he would not be able to help me.”
Then- FBI director James B. Comey appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2017. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
A lifelong Republican until recently, Comey delivers an indirect but unmistakable rebuke of the GOP’s congressional leaders as well: “It is also wrong to stand idly by, or worse, to stay silent when you know better, while a president brazenly seeks to undermine public confidence in law enforcement institutions that were established to keep our leaders in check.”
Comey stops short of outlining a legal case against the president, explaining that because he does not know all the evidence he cannot determine whether Trump intended to obstruct justice by firing him and by asking him to back off the FBI’s investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“I have one perspective on the behavior I saw, which while disturbing and violating basic norms of ethical leadership, may fall short of being illegal,” he writes.
Still, the book is an indictment of Trump’s presidency as well as of his character. Each chapter can be interpreted as an elaborate trolling of Trump, starting with the title, “A Higher Loyalty,” a subtle reference to the loyalty pledge that Trump sought and did not receive from Comey.
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There will now be a long parade of bad press and bad news for Donald Trump.
And there hasn't already been a long parade of negative news for Trump? I don't know where you've been, but since the day Trump was nominated at the GOP convention there has been an all out daily assault on Trump.
My interest in POS Comey's book would be on anything he has to say about POS Loretta Lynch. Interesting how she tried to get out in front of the book release a few days ago to say that Comey never raised any concerns to her about anything.
The best thing that could happen for the Republicans and conservatives would be for Trump to resign immediately and they take their chances going forward with Pence. Trump is not qualified to be president, and he has never been remotely qualified to be president. It will never get better for him in terms of his approval from the majority of Americans. Yeah he has 35-40% of the people behind him because they hate liberals. That is not going to get it done going forward.
People that think that Trump's only problem is that the liberal media picks on him and is out to get him are delusional. Trump is his own worst enemy. He can't shut up and he can't stop lying. Bad combination.
If Trump stays in office for three more years there won't be anything left of the Republican Party.
Perhaps if he could go a day without saying something retarded, telling bald-faced lies, or acting like a 15 year old girl on twitter he wouldn't have so many issues.
Why would someone resign without reason? Because the left is having a fit for 14 months?
Trump is not qualified to be president, and he has never been remotely qualified to be president.
Says you! I'm very happy with what he is doing. It's the antidote for the past decade
It will never get better for him in terms of his approval from the majority of Americans.
His approval rating has risen dramatically, even in the CNN poll - up by 8 points. You've hit him with everything but the kitchen sink and his approval rating is actually no longer a talking point. Your'e still grasping, huh?
People that think that Trump's only problem is that the liberal media picks on him and is out to get him are delusional.
If you were honest, you'd have to admit it yourself. Would you care to deny that if the dems capture the House in November, that they wont immediately go for impeachment without even a decision by the Mueller probe?
The problem isn't with who the people elected, it lies with the progressives and the deep state.
Prepare yourself for more of the same.
He lies to the public every day. Usually multiple times a day. And you are happy? I guess that says something about you.
Trump's approval rating in the Gallup weekly poll is 41%. It has only been that high or higher for three weeks out of the past 65 weeks. All the rest of the time it has been lower than 41%.
It is absurd to claim that Trump is popular.
Even if that were true, it would mean nothing to me, I'm only interested in what he is doing.
Trump's approval rating in the Gallup weekly poll is 41%. It has only been that high or higher for three weeks out of the past 65 weeks. All the rest of the time it has been lower than 41%.
What do you do, search for the poll that has him lowest? The latest CNN Poll now has him at 42%, a rise of 8 points :
As for Rasmussen:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
Any way you slice it his approval rating is rising - along with the economy and wages!
Even if it wasn't, Presidents don't resign because of low approval ratings. I guess you never thought it would rise, did you? And you still want him removed by any means possible. Any thoughts on the raid of his lawyers office? Where is your liberal concern for civil liberties? Where is the biased, phony ACLU?
It is absurd to claim that Trump is popular.
You are now down to a stawmans argument.
Again, for the millionth time....35 years old and a natural born citizen of this country. There are NO OTHER REQUIREMENTS for being President. Maybe you and the 10 clueless that upvoted should read the Constitution. You know, the founding document liberals hate....
Obama had a lower rating this time during his presidency. I wonder why John did not squeal for him to resign?
Bugsy, you are talking qualified by quantity and I am talking qualified by quality.
It's like that old saying, "you know the words but not the music".
You seem like a nice guy Vic, but your political outlook is delusional.
Yup, and look at the kind of media coverage he got! They fawned over him, he was always presented in the best possible light. Time to give Trump some credit
Doesn't matter what you are "saying". The Constitution lays it out very clearly what it takes to be qualified to be President.
Even if you went by your definition of qualified, you would agree Obama should never had been president.
So you're saying that Trump isn't DOING anything when he LIES ad nauseam. Wow...
Skirting the CoC [ph]
Have you watched Fox lately? It's should be renamed Trump TV.
Mr Comey a life long rock solid Republican wrote his book which he has amply documented and he was there after all. In any case, the multitude of Trump lies and as you call them, "Exaggerations", exposed by Comey should be shocking and should enrage people but lies are what we have already come to expect from this President. If you have no problem with a lying President then that is on you. I believe most of us expect more from a sitting US President than we are seeing out of Trump and his misbegotten administration. Directly following the cleanest most ethical administration in history, Obama's had zero ranking campaign or administration officials ever indicted for malfeasance in office, Trump and his band of outlaws stands in stark contrast. The voters will have their say on November 6th and I expect that will change the political playing field and not in Trump's favor. So, hold on to you seat because it looks to be a bumpy ride coming for Trump. I am confident the American People are fed up with all of Trump's lies...
Comey is a Republican. So is Mueller. So is McCabe. However they all have one fault. They won't lick the toe jam out from between Trumps toes or that smelly stuff the gathers between his balls and his inner thighs before he takes a shower like the Republicans that really love him. Anyone who won't do that is not a "true" Republican. All of the rest of the Republicans who take shots at people like Comey and Mueller and MaCabe including his followers in the Congress and all of the ones on this website are more then happy to lick the toe jam from between Trump's toes and the smelly stuff from between his balls and his inner thighs before he showers because that's how much they worship their dear fucking leader.
How can a lie be based on truth, that doesn't even make sense.
Just because he met the requirements does not mean he is qualified.
So you can list this daily "bullshit"? By all means, give us a list of all those fake stories from the left... We'll wait.
Um, yes it does. What you posted makes absolutely zero sense.
Bugsy, you approach the meaning of the word "qualified" with the perception of a child.
Qualified | Define Qualified at Dictionary.com
Qualified definition, having the qualities , accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function, office, or the like. See more.
Age, place of birth, etc. are not "qualities".
Intelligence, judgement, demeanor, morals, etc. are "qualities".
Bugsy, if one were to accept your idea of what it takes to be qualified to president of the United States, someone who was literally an idiot would be qualified to be president if they were over 35 and born in the U.S.
Yet if you asked people if they thought a literal idiot is qualified to be president, what do you think they would say?
A plumber has 2 hands, 2 feet, 2 eyes, and therefore is "qualified" physically to perform surgery on you. Would you hire that plumber to do that surgery?
"Just because he met the requirements does not mean he is qualified."
And they purposely set the bar really low for their candidates for the last election, and still wound up with the least qualified.
It looks like even his big supporters on Fox are beginning to find fault with him.
"Trump supporters slam decision to launch strikes against Syria"
"Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham both questioned Trump’s decision Friday to launch strikes in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack last weekend that the U.S. has attributed to the Syrian government.
Carlson noted the move was inconsistent with the president’s message during his 2016 campaign, and Ingraham said she found that intervention in other countries could be risky, as shown in the Iraq War, according to the Daily Beast .
Michael Savage, a prominent conservative radio host and author, tweeted that “sad warmongers hijacking our nation” following news of the strike.
Infowars’s Alex Jones broke down in tears while speaking out against the military action.
“If he had been a piece of crap from the beginning, it wouldn’t be so bad,” Jones said of Trump. “We’ve made so many sacrifices and now he’s crapping all over us. It makes me sick."
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter also shared her opposition to the strike, retweeting a series of other conservative or right-wing figures who condemned the move and resurfacing Trump's own past tweets against military action in Syria.
And far-right figures Mike Cernovich and Laura Loomer also ripped Trump over the military strike in Syria.
Trump announced Friday that he had ordered “precision strikes” against Syria over an apparent chemical weapons attack by Syrian leader Bashar Assad's forces. The strikes targeted areas linked to Syria’s chemical weapons program."
These are all avid Trump supporters until today. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Congress is seeking a full explanation of Trump's plan for strikes on Syria.
This is getting very interesting by the minute.
Now that's funny!
Well, that was expected to be stupid....and was.
That's right, John. Even you can be president.
Can I be president?
Yes you can. As long as you meet the requirements set forth in the Constitution.
Some posters on here (sounds like Don Brussel) don't believe in the Constitution
Coming from you means it totally does.
It was a rhetorical question. I won't be running for POTUS in this lifetime
“It is also wrong to stand idly by, or worse, to stay silent when you know better, while a president brazenly seeks to undermine public confidence in law enforcement institutions that were established to keep our leaders in check.”
Well, he certainly stood by and essentially remained silent while giving the ex secretary of state a pass on breaking Federal laws. It's been downhill for the FBI ever since he failed to do his job which has certainly undermined the agency's credibility and stained its reputation.
It's been downhill for the FBI ever since he failed to do his job which has certainly undermined the agency's credibility and stained its reputation.
would be interesting to know the classified information he was worried would be used against Loretta Lynch if it became public during the investigation.
I think it's more of a "grasping at straws".
Exactly. Conservative Republicans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours in more than 8 partisan investigations of Hillary Clinton and came up with nothing, not a single indictment. Mueller already has six of Trumps campaign team either indicted or pleading guilty along with 13 Russian operatives indicted, but all conservative Republicans can think about is Hillary and her non-crimes they fantasize about. They can't even specify what they believe Hillary was supposedly trying to hide with the handful of classified emails she carelessly sent on her private email server and they have no evidence her server was ever compromised thus they can't point to any harm actually being caused by her carelessness. In fact, it appears Hillary's private email server was the only one at the State Department that wasn't hacked by the Russians.
"Overlooked in the controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server , is the fact that suspected Russian hackers have bedeviled State Department's email system for much of the past year and continue to pose problems for technicians trying to eradicate the intrusion. Federal law enforcement, intelligence and congressional officials briefed on the investigation say the hack of the State email system is the "worst ever" cyberattack intrusion against a federal agency. The attackers who breached State are also believed to be behind hacks on the White House's email system, and against several other federal agencies, the officials say."
Why is fox propaganda always 'explosive'?
Fox has explosive diarrhea
That's rich, considering some of the memes you post.
1.3 proves your point quite nicely.
That's actually the one I had in mind, too, but there are so many from which to choose.
"Fox has explosive diarrhea"
He who eats his own feces is bound to smell twice as bad.
FBI under Comey's leadership.
So, Comey ended up going easy on his olde boss? He could have really piled it on but he wound up practically praising Trump. /S
America, we have a problem. A HUGE PROBLEM...
Well that has been obvious for decades. He essentially embodies all of the worst human qualities with none of the redeeming ones.
Trump did not earn the sobriquet of The Original Short Fingered Vulgarian for nothing...
Yeah, it's been obvious for decades, but when the former head of the nation's premier law enforcement agency says it , it gets a little added weight.
Congental liar? Comey intentionally recycling the description famously applied to Hillary Clinton in the 90s by the New York Times? Quite a slam.
Remember when Schumer said, "Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," That sounds like the KGB. We were on our way and this might just be a bump in the road with Hillary losing, but the old saying, "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." Schumer probably didn't realize he was giving it away when he said that, but he told the truth and that's what the World Wide Left is all about.
One thing about Trump is he has everyone trying to get on the money wagon. It seems everyone who gets near him finds a way to make money from it. Now you take Comey. What would he be without Trump? An old washed up FBI Director who has a long history of incompetence to live on, but then Trump came along, let him ride on the money wagon and gave him the opportunity to write a book that would be a top 10 with the frayed wired society and he would make a lot of money.
And this Stormy. If she took the $130,000 she probably needed it and with age taking its toll and the hole getting bigger and bigger, sagging watermelons don't do a whole lot for most men. She jumped on the money wagon and will probably make a lot of money from the idiots who will be buying her book. Plus she will probably get a movie deal with Hollywood as well. They'll prop her up, make her stand out in the cold or the ice box, shoot the scenes and the poor idiots will spend all their money on the movie. And then she will disappear with a pocket full of Liberal money, all because Trump let her ride in his money wagon.
The man has those Lefties fooled. They are hard wired, although you can tell those wires are pretty frayed and are shorting out a whole lot these days, but they are hard wired to think in the box and Trump keeps them shorting out every day and bouncing around in the box while he goes along and appoints some more judges, carries along making a lot of sane people happy with their newfound income and benefits they never received during the gloom and doom years of that last fellow, where we were going to lead from behind. He probably knew quite a bit about that kind of thing.
It's difficult watching these red diaper babies lose their poop everyday, but in a way it's kind of fun too. Trump keeps doing what they think is wrong and then he keeps getting it right at the same time. Meetings with North Korea, China talking about reducing tariffs, Russia finally meeting someone they can't coward down last that last wussy. The Left thinks we're only days from WWIII. LOL!!! Psychology can't be taught in Liberal schools. The Professors ideology gets in the way of common sense reasoning. That may be the source of the illness. I don't know. We should hope for the best for our fellow citizens that they are able to overcome what ails them.
It is a little humorous to see you leap off the deep end into the arms of Donald Trump, I have to admit that Sixpick.
I'm not jumping into the arms of Donald Trump. I've said I didn't really care for him, but I have to admit, he is keeping the Left jumping and bouncing off the walls. And you in particular have gone bonkers in my opinion. No insult intended, but I think you'll look back on this as somewhat like a mental breakdown.
Lol, he is also keeping the RIGHT jumping and bouncing off the walls. How is that working out? And you say you don't care for him, yet you can't help jumping in and defending even the indefensible.
Is that what your support of trump is all about...keeping the left jumping? I know you care about your country, so that comment is very strange coming from you
That's such a mean girl attitude. It's like saying "Hey, I can't stand Daniel, he's totally gross, I only slept with him to piss you off...".
Conservative Republicans banged Trump just to give America an STD to make the liberals and progressives angry, real smart. Now the Presidency has forever been tainted by this incompetent disease riddled buffoon.
LOL. You've said a lot of dumb things in your time but that is right up there. tens of millions of people oppose Trump and Trumpism, including some here on NT. There is nothing unusual about it whatsoever.
It is the people defending this abomination that are going to look back with regret.
You NAILED it!
DP tends to do so regularly.
Get a grip Six! Without Trump , Comey would be the current director of the FBI, with 7 or 8 more years of his term in front of him.
Yea, but now he won't have to work those 7 or 8 more years. He'll make a bunch of money and in the end after he's taken the Left's money, he'll be exposed and remembered in history for the fellow who exonerated Hillary Clinton before he even interviewed her.
Yeah, sure, try again, you may not remember this about Comey but, I do.
The states listed in the bolded part happen to be states that Trump won by a slim margin, they would have gone to Hillary if Comey hadn't given that letter to Congress so, saying that Comey helped Hillary is only half the story, you should be saying, "Comey helped Hillary lose."
And who did they project to win the election? They were wrong then. I don't know anyone who changed their votes and I bet you don't either. Five thirty five six or seven doesn't know either.
Do you know when Hillary was supposed to turn all that government material including the hard drives into the government? Let me tell you. The day she stopped working for the government. How many years was that before they discovered she still had all of it?
What do you think would happen to you if you destroyed evidence after it was requested by the government?
In other words, Hillary brought every bit of the problems she had on herself. No one else is responsible for her incompetence at the very least or what we all know was her plan to keep her communication out of government hands in order to build up her pile of cash.
None of what you posted has anything to do with the Comey letter. What you have posted about is all speculation on the part of the Rightwing of what Clinton had or, had not done, whether she turned in all the "evidence". If you will remember, two days before the election Comey came out and, pulled a Gilda Radner.
Put yourself in Comey's position, Hillary is going to be the next president, you'll be FBI director for another eight years and the new FBI headquarters building will be named after you, but your candidate did something criminal and all your plans will go down the tubes, so you work around the facts to exonerate her, so now you're in a good spot with the next president, oops another problem, she will not have the congress or senate, questions are going to be asked about his premature exoneration, so he takes a calculated risk, come out with something on her almost too late to change anything, which will put him in a better position with the republicans. If Hillary had won and then he came out with that letter there would have been never ending investigations and his removal as director, if he hadn't came out with that letter and Hillary won and his exoneration of her before he even interviewed her would have triggered investigations and his removal as director. So the way he played it with Hillary the next president, both you and JR agree the new FBI building would be the James Comey Building.
He investigated the private email issue and found the classified emails which should not have been sent via her private email, but on review found she wasn't trying to hide those emails, the emails had no incriminating content, there was no intent to deceive the FBI and he found her explanations of why they ended up there credible, and there was no evidence her server was compromised. Was she careless in allowing those handful of classified emails to go through her private email server? Yes. Is she some sort of ring leader of a deep state cabal using her power as Secretary of State to further some nefarious agenda? No, of course not, there was no evidence of anything like that. The "missing emails" were found and reviewed by the FBI, none contained anything that would amount to an intentional nefarious or subversive act. Much of this was clear two thirds of the way through the investigation which is why Comey began drafting what they knew so far in a memo which wasn't complete till after Hillary was interviewed and the investigation was completed.
So I put myself in Comeys position and I came to the same conclusion. Hillary Clinton did have a private email server (as several prior Secretary of States had) but she was careless in using it for a few classified emails, but none were indicative of any crime and there was no intent to deceive proven. Thus, he reported to all of us that she was "careless" but did not recommend any indictments of she or any of her staff. It all seems logical to me.
Why did you turn this into an all things Hillary? My post was about Comey and his rational. He was trying to guarantee his future in his job and his legacy, so he did everything to please the future president, but he also had to dodge the republicans and appease them to also insure his job. As JR stated above with Hillary as president he was assured the FBI director job for 8 years and the possibility of having the new FBI Headquarters named after him, Trump not so much and rightfully so he was fired.
When the email fiasco started, Comey's candidate was facing possible criminal charges, whichever way it went he did not know, but he started drafting and exoneration statement anyways.
You fell for it didn't you? When Comey exonerated Hillary you loved him, when he wrote the letter to congress you hated him, now that's he's mad at Trump and writes a book you love him again.
"Hillary is going to be the next president, you'll be FBI director for another eight years and the new FBI headquarters building will be named after you, but your candidate did something criminal and all your plans will go down the tubes, so you work around the facts to exonerate her, so now you're in a good spot with the next president, oops another problem, she will not have the congress or senate, questions are going to be asked about his premature exoneration, so he takes a calculated risk, come out with something on her almost too late to change anything, which will put him in a better position with the republicans. If Hillary had won and then he came out with that letter there would have been never ending investigations and his removal as director, if he hadn't came out with that letter and Hillary won and his exoneration of her before he even interviewed her would have triggered investigations and his removal as director. So the way he played it with Hillary the next president, both you and JR agree the new FBI building would be the James Comey Building."
You turned it into all things Hillary. I merely pointed out the real "rationale" for his decisions instead of using conjecture and assumption to claim he must have been doing it for some nefarious reason as you claimed. You injected more ridiculous opinion in your post than I could shake a stick at. You have zero evidence to back up even a single accusation but claim you know his "rationale". I responded with actual facts about how the investigation proceeded and concluded which any rational American would be able to see and understand.
I guess I should have said "all things Hillary's emails". But how else was I to write that without mentioning Hillary, when she was to be the next president and there was no one else running for president on the democrat side. This whole thing was thrown in front of him because of her negligence, purposeful or otherwise, and he had to find a way out to cover himself. Yes I know the horrors of it all I forgot an "e". Your second paragraph is because you love him again. Tell me why didn't he just wait until after the election to summit the letter to congress, oh that's right because if he had and Hillary won we would be looking at Hillary's impeachment by now, because republicans run the house and senate, see timing was everything, too late to change the election (Hillary was to win anyways), but early enough to show he wasn't in the bag for Hillary. Any rational American should realize Comey is a typical bureaucrat, looking out for himself.
Yeah, they probably didn't factor in the Russian influence.
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The other aspect of the prediction was that if Trump won it would signal the end of the GOP and at the very least cast it into the wilderness for the next several decades. We're seeing that happen now:
LOL. It wasn't just Comey's letter to Congress which was problematic, it was his July 5th press conference where he announced that there would be no charges....and where he editorialized and repeatedly denounced her for how she had handled emails. That latter part was grossly unethical and it's the only legitimate portion of the various reasons he was fired. All he should have done is announced that there would be no charges because the investigation found that no crimes had been committed.
James Comey decided not to charge Hillary Clinton because he felt that there was little to no legal precedent for doing so.
It's funny to watch the right try and rewrite history to claim that Clinton was obviously guilty of a crime with her e-mails. During the year and a half that Clinton was under investigation there were any number of legal experts that wrote about the topic.
ANALYSIS: No, Hillary Clinton Did Not Commit a Crime ...
Feb 01, 2016 · Watch video · ABC News legal analyst ... for Hillary Clinton to be charged with a federal crime stemming ... as 2011 that personal emails should not be ...
The Scandal Over Clinton ’s Emails Still Isn’t a Scandal
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ... in charge of maintaining security on Clinton ... Clinton ’s email arrangement was not some ...
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Petraeus prosecutor: Clinton committed no crime
Aug 30, 2015 · Flashback - Petraeus prosecutor: Clinton committed no crime . Unlike Petraeus, Clinton did not "knowingly" store or share classified information in violation of the law .
There were many legal experts who predicted, before Comey said a word, that Clinton would not be charged.
So how is it a scandal or a conspiracy when she was in fact not charged?
There is no end to the stupidity we see from the right on this topic.
Comey was not a Clintonite. He actually cost her the election in the opinion of many people.
Right.....you merely like to be spanked.
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I also liked Comey's description of Trump as living in a "a cocoon of alternative reality." That describes most of the right wing today.
If he's such a germaphobe, why would he have sex with a porn actress with no condom?
"Comey describes Trump as a congenital liar and unethical leader, devoid of human emotion and driven by personal ego."
But was there any other content we were unaware of?
Well there is the doorman's description, though it must be emphasized and unverified, of him as a father of an illegitimate child.
As far as him being a congenital liar, a Putin toy puppet, an unethical leader, devoid of human emotion an incredibly dangerous malignant narcissist, that is the worst threat to our national security in American history, well that's just sort of a given at that point now isn't it?
The simple truth is that Trump is the greatest danger to the United States of America since WWII. He will sell us out to Putin unless he is stopped.
It's sad that a former FBI Director who is a known liar and leaker felt the need to author a tabloid-style book as the way to salvage his tarnished reputation.
He probably did it hoping to make some money. That is the way of the world after all. Trump has "written" a number of books. His ghostwriter Tony Schwartz claims to have written every word of Trump's most famous book The Art Of The Deal.
Comey is not 'disgraced' in any way shape or form. This 'disgrace' is a fabrication of the loon right wing media machine.
The people who have a true right to be upset with Comey are the Democrats who wanted to see Clinton win. Comey was a tremendous help to Trump when he revived the email story, erroneously, 10 days before the election.
Comey lost all his integrity when he built a case to charge Hillary and then used intent as a lame excuse. If him and Obama's DOJ had done the right thing in the first place, he would not have had to re-open the case.
Comey is regarded as a fool by everyone. He has lost is job, integrity, permanently tarnished the FBI, and nobody wants to be associated with him.
All you right wingers are dupes to conservative media disinformation. It's a damn shame.
They will be hauling Trump's fat ass off to the country club prison facility where he will spend the rest of his life, and the NT conservatives will still be predicting that the "real truth" is just around the corner. Pitiful.
Chris Christie is going to prison soon for Bridgegate to, huh?
So which is it? Is he a liar or a leaker? If he lied about what the President said, then he didn't leak. If he leaked his conversation with the President then he wasn't lying.
It's amazing to me that this still needs to be explained. Comey lied under oath to Congress about Hillary Clinton, and he leaked classified info to his Columbia U law professor friend who then leaked Comey's classified info to the media. Do your own research.
Comey's personal notes are classified information? Seems doing your own research is indicated.
If they include any information received while working in his position as the FBI Director then he would be a leaker.
Not that difficult to understand.
When? Please cite the supposed lie to congress about Hillary Clinton.
Trump earned a "pants on fire" for his claim about that Hillary lied to the FBI as there is zero evidence of any lie.
Huh? How so? And how do you know that, exactly?
Wrong. They are PERSONAL notes. Not official. He can do with them as he pleases.
Did MSNBC tell you that?
Yeah, just read this:
Several law professors told us there are no laws prohibiting Comey from sharing conversations he had with Trump in an unclassified manner.
"It absolutely is legal for Comey to share his own private reflections that do not consist of closely held national security secrets with the press, whether by passing on the information himself or through a friend," said Heidi Kitrosser, a law professor at the University of Minnesota.
Don't you people think ?
Do You?
From your link:
Comey testified last month before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he considered the memos to be personal documents and that he shared at least one of them with a friend.
so because Comey said so it shall be?
The law says that.
"Don't you people think ? "
Huh? Remember....they're Trump supporters.
But.....but......I wasn't the one who said that.
Too funny....coming from the person who consistently blabbers about how people should be polite and make their arguments without personal attacks.
Knew it was bullshit.
You should try it sometime. It would be a nice change of pace.
BTW....I give as good as I get......and show respect where it is EARNED, not DEMANDED.
From your link:
I guess we can see why you chose not to post that tidbit...
what is the relevance? do you even know?
and she double downs on the attacks. nobody has to earn your respect.
who runs around quoting the COC?....just practice what you preach.
You use the Love heart as your avatar, but, your words don't speak what your avatar promotes.
And yes, I stand by what I say, unlike some who throw out their snark and insults as they think they make them look smart. I don't have to impress you or anyone else here. Least of all, those who only come here to throw their feces at others they don't agree with.
I am not here to earn your respect of anyone else's. NT is not my life, and I don't live for the respect of people here or not. Maybe that is important to you, but, not me.
Skirting the CoC [ph]I don't and have no interest at all in what you have to say.
It amazes me that y'all are still regurgitating that BS. It's been a year since Comey testified and yet not one peep from the DOJ about prosecuting him for any of the fallacious allegations y'all spew ad nauseam. Oh and BTW, did I miss the announcement about the Congress referring Comey to the DOJ?
Isn't it about time that y'all STOP whining about Comey/Hillary and START whining about Sessions and Wray failing to start the witch hunt y'all so desperately want? WTF are they waiting for? Why are y'all giving Trump's 'best people' a pass? The Congress BEGGED Session to start an investigation and he refused! Where is the outcry about Session not falling in line?
You always say that. Your only rebuke is the usual. You have perrie on your side and you think that is all you need. You support Perrie and she supports you. all you need....right?
NT is made up of more members than you. If you make a post and someone disagrees.....don't take it personal.
With perrie......on, I am part of her team, experimenting and stuff. Bully!
Get a life, Raven.
oH girl......you are sooo funny. Skirting the CoC [ph] Got any more good laughs?
I am not here to please you or anyone else. If you don't like what I have to say that is your right. But, do try, at least try, to say something that does not make you look so foolish while you are trying so hard to look so smart.
I am not the only one here n NT that helps Perrie when and where we can, so that does not make me one of her pets or have her on my side as you so unknowingly try to suggest.
And I have a very good life, with lots of good Friends here and elsewhere. Maybe you should take you won advice.
And thanks for the good laugh, I needed one today.
don't attack the avatar...lol.
you are too funny. you want to demand respect, but show none yourself.
have a nice day
Who every said I DEMAND respect from anyone? And don't put words in my mouth.
But, by all means do keep
I could care less.
I am laughing, also. He who protests!
For a fact.
Well gee Sun, YOU pasted this in bold:
I presumed YOU understood the relevance. My bad...
Perhaps you can suss that out from what I chose to quote from your comment. Sheesh.
Which means what?
Well, that let's Cohen off the hook.
what are you talking about? read the article.
It sounds like you are describing yourself. You do nothing but try to bully and intimidate anyone you disagree with, or who disagrees with you. However, your own aggression is anything but passive.
If you REALLY don't know what I'm talking about, I can't help you...
And, what you say is.....don't try to bully or intimidate me and don't talk to me ever again or something like that.
It is really you that doesn't know what they are talking about...I could care less.
How much less?
OK why this attack here? Raven was not talking to you, Sunshine. She was goofing with BF, which they enjoying doing. This was uncalled for.
Mags, I have no idea why you felt the need to jump into the fray and make a comment like that. No one here garners my favor. And because of this strange pile on from what seems like nothing, Raven ended up with two skirting violations. Since it looks like that was the goal here, well done!
Sunshine,
She was demanding nothing until you started in with her.
OK, this is beginning to look like an organized attack. Why are you involved Norman? Read up the thread. Raven was goofing with BF and these ladies started in with her.
Mags, she wasn't talking to you at all before you guys started in on her, so I find this remark rather ironic.
So, to recap, Raven having fun with BF, gets busted on by 3 different people for doing nothing. Loses her temper (who wouldn't) and gets 2 violations, and the attackers walk away scott free. Well played.
Ask some of your NT buddies why they are so passive-agressive. There are at least two rightie members here who consistently must have the last word
Comey's description? Out of everyone in D.C., you could probably fit the ones that don't meet the description into a small bus.
I honestly wish there would be some convictions, if convictions are in order. Maybe I'm too cynical, but my thoughts are that the wide majority of our elected officials are more interested in self-dealing than promoting the public good.
I'm sure that may be one of his reasons. From the teasers we've gotten so far, he's also licking his wounds in a way that isn't befitting of the high government positions he once held.
Irrelevant to your own seeded topic. That book was written in 1987 when Trump was already a business magnate.
Comey was well-respected by both political parties until he pulled his Hillary flip-flop. We may never know why he was "for" her before he was "against" her in 2016.
Although Hillary won't admit it, she's the only one who is responsible for twice losing her presidential bids.
Comey was also a tremendous help to Hillary when he exonerated her without having his FBI interview/question her.
That's a joke, right? Trump was under investigation at the same time Hillary was. Did Comey announce to the world that HE was under investigation? No, never said a word, but he said Hillary was several times. So explain how Comey was HELPING Hillary again?
So, maybe, Hillary should have said something.
How does one write a book in a few months that is actually published?
Do you seriously think anyone on the right would have believed her if she had? Nope.
Did anyone on the left believe Trump?
Trump lies over 80% of the time, Hillary, 38%.. Do the math.
How quickly some forget ...
Need more? Look it up yourself.
“When you have a significant case that is in the public domain and certainly in the public’s interest, in the public’s eye, I think that it could be expected that both the FBI and the prosecutors that they’re working with are beginning to draft a statement of facts that could be used later, as the case is developing,”
“The decision is never 'made' until the end, even when there's a 99% chance it is only going to go one way.”
So you believe Comey should have waited to start drafting a response even though 95% of the investigation had been completed? Why? When I had reports due I was writing my conclusions as I read the material, gleaning basic points of interest and facts along the way, I wouldn't wait till I finished reading the entire assignment to start compiling the relevant material. Of course, I would never turn in the "draft" before I had completed the research, and Comey didn't either, he simply began drafting the statement using what they had gathered so far and completed it once the final interviews were done. I'm not sure why this is so hard for anyone with more than half a brain to understand. Oh wait, it isn't.
How exactly did Comey announcing that Hillary was under an FBI investigation... "help her". That's what I was responding to. Can you explain how that HELPED her?
Not even questioning?
Trump tells the truth 20% of the time? I'm not sure I believe that?
Those are the half truths.. He tells the absolute truth 4% of the time.
Now THAT I believe!
That still seems high to me.
He's out to clear his name as he should be after the mountains of lies and smears he's had to endure as well as set the record straight which is what the country deserves to know. Even if The Dump is not a criminal himself he's certainly been aiding and abetting a slew of criminal activity on his behalf and for his benefit.
Comey's book will be available on audio book as well. Rumor has it that Obama will do the reading for Trump's copy...
Pres Obama will need to explain the big words, tho. You know...the ones with more than 4 letters
You mean they took trump's say-n-spell away? LOL
No....I am thinking the ghost writer for Comey will have to explain the whole damn book to Comey!
That doesn't even make sense.
All joking aside Obama was an intellectual and Trump talks down to more common people. That's Trumps base.
This coming from the poster that can't even spell "Hillary".
Actually, the Democrats have been losing the working class base to the Republicans for several years.
Why? Have the Democrats turned their back on the working class?
What did Hillary promise the working class to gain their support? Higher wages? Affordable education? More jobs? Better jobs?
Yes.
Oh, please, please, please do give us some of your trademark "comic relief."
LOL!
trump doesn't even come up to the level of the Common Man. They talk down to him
I think both you and mags need the explanation....
Actually Trump fired Comey and then Sessions asked Rosenstein to retroactively write a letter giving excuses for doing so, primarily to cover Trump's butt for his obstruction of justice.
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Note that Trump's admitted reasons for recommending that Comey be fired have nothing whatsoever to do with the reasons Trump freely admitted in his interview with Lester Holt.
Correction - that should read: "Note that Rosenstein's admitted reasons for recommending that Comey be fired have nothing whatsoever to do with the reasons Trump freely admitted in his interview with Lester Holt."
And to drill home the point:
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Note that Trump praised both of the unethical things which Comey did.
You're going to be in for some real heartache, Normie. I feel sorry for you.
Lynch should have been fired.
Any particular reason? Her hairdo? Smile? Walk? Sound of her voice? Can't be her qualifications.
lol
And you know what they talked about...how? ESP? A secret recording? You were there? You're Lynch in disguise? You "just know"? You're a Genie? You have Superman's hearing?
"And you know what they talked about...how? ESP? A secret recording?"
They all think they know everything about everything. Shirley they must know the winning numbers to the next Mega Millions, but, they won't share it with anyone else.
No, he's only been caught committing perjury three times and he's still got his job.
Damn, did you just admit that Mueller is honest and, has integrity??? WOW.
So after the last 8 years of the cons bending over backwards to defend LEO's, no matter what they do, (up to and including, murder), now we have the right wing attacking the largest law enforcement agency in the country... It's too stupid to make it up.
I don't like the timing of Mr. Comey's book. It reeks. I don't think it's appropriate for him to be opening up at this time just as I thought his broadcasting of the Hilary Clinton email investigation was inappropriate. He should speak with special counsel Mueller and wait until after the investigation is complete. It seems too self serving in my opinion and those with common sense and a handle on reality already are pretty clear who this President is.
Comey may not have had control over when the book was released.
But let's face it, there is no "good time" to demonstrate that the POTUS is a congenital liar, although it is inevitable with this president.
John - I agree that it's pretty clear to those of us living in reality who this President is. BUT - I'm pretty sure Mr. Comey could have demanded a later release date. This is one of those salacious must reads so he could have negotiated a later release date or taken it to another publisher.
The timing doesn't really bother me at all. Does anybody really think Trump would hold off releasing salacious information until the revelation was more appropriate? Nope. He's played dirty from the get-go, and if a bit of mud he likes to throw ends up on him, I don't see the problem.
So long as the investigation isn't compromised, I don't see any problem with the release date.
Sure, sure. There was no "crooked Hillary", no "lying Ted", no "little Marco" - he didn't utter any of those phrases, ever. Never was a birther.
Do you even believe the lies you type? I guess you must, as you vote up your own posts.
Trump is crooked, lies, and isn't nearly as little as he claims to be. Did he or did he not support the birther conspiracy?
I wonder if Podesta and company had never began the birther thing, would Trump have said anything about it?
Probably would have never been brought up.
So you're saying Trump is incapable of independent thought and just agrees with anyone who insults those he doesn't like?
Yeah, you're probably right about that.
I'm not the one who brought up Podesta. That was deflection.
Really?
So it bothers you when Trump plays dirty but not when Comey plays dirty? Or is it just that it doesn't bother you when anyone plays dirty?
Trump made these "rules", and he can play by them.
It bothered me when he made fun of Carly Fiorina's looks. It bothered me when he made fun of Jeb Bush. It bothered me when he made fun of Megyn Kelly. I'm no fan of any of those people, but his personal attacks on them were childish and cruel.
He's getting his comeuppance. If that comes about as the result of a book that contains a reasoned, unbiased opinion as to exactly why the author thinks he's unfit to be POTUS, so be it. Comey hasn't approached Trump's level of nastiness yet.
Got it.
Comey gets a pass and Trump doesn't.
Good luck with that going forward ......
Did Obama "personally savage" him before the whole birther crap?
No.
Did Fiorina make fun of his looks? Did Marco Rubio? Megyn Kelly?
No.
But he attacked them anyway. Not disagreed with them. Not said "they're not fit to be POTUS, and here's why", with a rational list to follow.
That's what Comey did. He didn't attack his physique, or imply he was irrational because he was male, or engage in kindergarten-caliber name-calling. He released a book that told his version of what happened, and gave his reasons why Trump should not be POTUS - reasons anyone with eyes can see, if they're willing to admit the truth to themselves.
Odd that some folks will give childish attacks a pass, while objecting to Comey giving his opinion in a mature, rational manner, just because it's not favorable to their guy. "Slimey Comey" is perfectly fine, but pointing out that Trump lies, when he does so extremely blatantly, isn't. "Lock her up" is fine, but a book's release date must be set so as not to upset Trump.
That kind of hypocrisy is exactly why the timing of the book's release doesn't bother me. Some conservatives expect a level of respect and consideration that, if the same request came from a liberal, those conservatives would throw around terms like "snowflake". If ya'll want your politicians handled with kid gloves, show some respect yourselves, or expect to get called on the hypocrisy.
No, I am saying that the birther thing would never had even been constructed had Podesta never started it.
Whataboutism.
Deflection.
Own it.
BTW, nobody said name-calling was criminal except you.
I get what you're saying and I don't disagree except for the fact that Mr. Comey is not cut from the same cloth as the President. He shouldn't stoop to that level.
I'd rather there be no more distractions to this investigation. Let it conclude and then anyone and everyone can write as many books as they want.
IMO, he hasn't.
So, The Dump now finds out what Clinton learned in July, 2016, and again ten days before the election what it feels like to get comeyed. If there's anything Comey will not let happen is even the slightest appearance that he's not impartial (Clinton's bane) or much worse someone trying to play him (The Dump's BIG mistake). So, now it's Dump's "turn in the barrel" (h/t Roger Stone!) and it's going to be an even bumpier ride than Cllinton's.