James Comey Responds to Trump

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/07/james-comey-responds-to-trump/

James Comey Responds to Trump
February 7, 2020 at 4:10 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

James Comey: “Yes, as usual, he called me a sleaze and scum and a dirty cop and said he likely would no longer be president if he hadn’t fired me. Although I still can’t follow the logic of that last bit, it doesn’t matter.”

“The important thing was what happened in the audience, where there were plenty of intelligent people of deep commitment to religious principle. They laughed and smiled and clapped as a president of the United States lied, bullied, cursed and belittled the faith of other leaders. That was the deeply disturbing part of the East Room moment, and should challenge us all.”

[Baltimike]

1. But her EMAIL!!!!! You Hatch Act violating fucker

you deserve disdain

[DENVERPOPS]

11. You are a complicit F***er Comey

You, more than anyone else or anything else caused Asshole Trump to get "installed" as president. Don't come crying to us for sympathy you treasonous ass wipe....................

And you were such an idiot like most Republicans not to think that he would kick you to the curb after you performed for him?
You and Colin Powell are in a league of your own. Colin Powell for lying and swinging enough votes in favor of the disastrous Iraq war of Cheney's. And there are countless others they will abuse, use and then step over their bodies, and tons they have already done it too.

If I continue I will get spanked by DU for the things I could say..................

[soldierant]

34. Even a complicit f****r can, on occasion,

make a remark worthy of note.

He's right that Trump's base and accomplices are scarier than Trump.

Hitler couldn't have accomplished what he did without Goebbels, Himmler, Mengele, and that crowd.

[kentuck]

37. Some folks are on the same side as Trump on this issue.

They should think twice about why Trump is so against them?

[blueseas]

42. +1001

That needs to be said over and over, they opened a Pandora's box.

[DENVERPOPS]

47. AND

Trump couldn't have accomplished and still be accomplishing what he has if it weren't for 1) The Republican Senate 2) Owning the Department of Justice, AKA BARR 3) Owning the Supreme Court Majority, 4) representing corporations by destroying all regulations
5) owning the rich by cutting their taxes by a huge amount 6) having 80+% of our Media owned by uber wealthy Republicans,
etc etc etc etc etc etc.........

Comey was only thinking of his own rank and status and he sooooo much wanted to be in the Repub "IN" crowd, just like Colin Powell.

His conscience finally caught up with him now that he has fallen short of his goal and is being trampled by the people he was soooo trying to please.......

We should judge people by their Actions, far more than their words..............

[at140]

57. Yes, Comey, more than anything is responsible for tRump

His press conference on eve of 2016 election was horrible for presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
It accomplished switch of enough few votes in PA, MI etc for tRump to squeak in.

[nwduke]

60. I agree with you

but I did read Comey’s book, and in his discussion about the last minute HRC revelation, he stated, “If I hid the discovered information, the right would have accused me of conspiracy, and if I disclosed the discovery, the left would have accused me of conspiracy, so I had no choice” the political climate sucks when you have the the mafia GOP bootlickers covering for their mafia boss and their gullible, low IQ’d worshipers slathering over him! I only hope the number of intelligent population outnumbers the low IQ’d bootlickers in the next election and restores dignity to our country!😎

[DENVERPOPS]

61. He is crushed

that he decided to go with the Right Wing Republican Trumpites thinking that was a sure bet to HIS future status and power.
Now he wants US to feel sympathy with him for making the worst decision for the country, ignoring the fact that he made a decision purely in his perceived best self interests.......

Fuck You, Comey......You are only feeling what we are feeling.....something huge being shoved up your rosy red anus.........
You are the most miniscule human on the planet............

You grew it, you chew it.......

[ffr]

15. +1000

Some day he needs to own up to what he helped accomplish for tRump's axis of evil.

[Baltimike]

56. I just love how the Comey's and Rosenstein's in this all are shruggy shoulders

Like they had NO IDEA what they were doing....and then you see their involvement with the likes of that fucker Ken Porno Starr and know that there's no way they were blind to this.

Even if Comey thought HRC was going to win, he just *HAD* to take a parting shot at her.

James Comey....Rod Rosenstein...thy name is asshole.

[democrattotheend]

2. It's pretty ironic

How much contempt Trump has for a man who basically handed him the presidency.

[Baltimike]

4. Amen! He helped Russia wittingly or he helped them unwittingly

but he helped them nonetheless.

[DENVERPOPS]

13. Not basically, literally..... n/c

[Grokenstein]

30. He steps on every toady, eventually.

If they have a back, he has a knife waiting for it, no matter how spineless and servile it may be.

[Laelth]

50. +1 n/t

-Laelth

[DENVERPOPS]

46. Not really

In addition to being a psychotic narcisist and psychopath, he takes great delight in hurting people. The signs of a true Sadist. So his actions regarding the guy who gave him the presidency are perfect....

Look at all Trump has done in the past 36 hours, and then just watch the month's ahead when he, his minions, the Republican Senators and the Republican party really gets things rolling......

This has been some of these Republicans fantasies and wet dreams for all their lives, they are full steam ahead............

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. That was my take, too.

What a disgusting show of cowardice by supposedly intelligent people.

[CaptYossarian]

10. Welcome to 1930s Berlin.

In Back to the Future 4, Marty finds himself with people worse than Biff.

I'm being flippant as I wait for this nightmare to end. Keeps the ulcers at bay.

[saidsimplesimon]

5. I hold grudges.

Former FBI Director Comey should not have broadcast his investigation of Mrs. Clinton, just before the election. While exonerated, the damage to Mrs. Clinton was a fait accompli.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"?

[jaxexpat]

8. True....But.

The corporate media picked it up and ran it into the ground. We don't have Hillary because they didn't want Hillary. We have donald. And since they appear to want him again, we probably will get donald again. Stupidity thrives on propaganda.

[DENVERPOPS]

14. Corporate Media

is 80+% owned by Republicans..........

[CaptYossarian]

16. Since Donald is so thin-skinned:

1. Hillary won the popular vote by 2.9 MILLION.

2. The SOB got IMPEACHED.

Comey's letter may have taken some votes away, but she never set foot in WI and was scarce in MI and PA. Those 78,000 voters mattered.

[krkaufman]

44. A LOT of factors

Hillary skipping the Rust Belt wouldn’t have mattered were it not for Comey’s very own October Surprise. Post-Access Hollywood tape, things were looking so bad that predictors were talking about Dems being able to retake the Senate; but it all imploded after Comey’s announcement Re: the Weiner laptop emails. Even Trump’s campaign has mentioned how their internal polling showed a big turnaround post-Comey.

[not_the_one]

55. and how does 70,000 votes negate 2,900,000 votes in

JUST the right states to enable the EC to trash our "one person = one vote" mantra FOR THE BENEFIT of the turd...

Sorry, I may be a LOT of things, but an idiot, I am not.

Those who were screaming "OH, it is NOT POSSIBLE, CAN'T BE DONE, Russian only hacked TWO states' election database and systems, and besides, they can't CHANGE VOTES", when we now know they hacked almost, if not EVERY state, are enablers, too. They provided cover so that the extent of the cyber warfare was minimalized. Votes can be changed by preventing people FROM voting. It only takes a few people in each district, with thousands of districts, to add up. It will never be noticed. Computer programs can figure that shit out.

And we have to admit, OUR hackers are nothing but clueless, amateur wannabes, who don't give a shit about our country. THEY should have dealt with the situation for us.

Hillary won by a HUGE number. SHE is the de facto President Of The United States. She's NOT, only because of the cheating, the treasonous REPUBLICANS, PUTIN, rightwing media who broadcasts LIES as truth, and the fact that many Americans are absolutely consumed with hate, desperate to "OWN" the "libtards", and anyone who even slightly appears "other", in order to boost their own self esteem.

We need to keep repeating that Hillary WON the presidency. THAT, and the FACT that OBAMA is the most popular president ever.

Play the game on his level.

It will eat him alive.

[kacekwl]

51. Nonsense, even if I didn't know what Hillary

looked like and she never chose to bless my state with her presence I NEVER would have voted for this absolute horror. Because I have eyes,ears,and a functioning brain. If you could not see that this crap would be the result of a trump in the White House it's on you not Hillary.

[CaptYossarian]

59. Someone once said (James Carville?): "There are 40% who will always

vote for the Democrats and 40% who will always vote Republican. The ones who are targeted by campaigns are the 20% in the middle." This may be the real factor. She didn't get these people to vote that Tuesday. Another theory is the campaigns are too long.

[BigmanPigman]

9. It is the number one reason she lost.

She even says so in her book. She definitely would have won if Comey and the NY Times had done their jobs and not play politics so close to the election. They knew what influence they had and chose to announce it at that crucial time.

[saidsimplesimon]

12. I don't have the book yet.

[BigmanPigman]

18. Neither do I but when she was on her book tour

she said that if it weren't for his stupid stunt she would have won and she said you can read about it in the book. The other factors like not campaigning in certain states, too much misogyny, Russia bots, social media lies, MSM not being fair when they did their reporting since it was based on ratings/$$$, etc. did effect the outcome but Comey put it over the top. And let's not forget the electoral college BS.

[Caliman73]

21. He did exactly what the people he is criticizing did.

He was under pressure because of the leaks coming out of the New York field office orchestrated by Giuliani and he announced the investigation of the laptop to save his own ass.

He was a coward like he is calling those at the prayer breakfast.

[H2O Man]

22. It would have

been wrong -- very wrong -- if Comey had "broadcasr" his October 28, 2016 letter to Congress. But, of course, he didn't. The republicans in Congress did.

It's important that people remember things accurately. One friend here insisted he saw a bews conference where Comey announced the FBI had re-opened the investigation. Unable to convince my friend that he was simply wrong, I suggested that he find it on youtube. Obviously, he could not. Yet he remained certain he remembered something that never happened. The mind is a curious thing, and sometimes combines memories of two things as one.

Had Comey not informed Congress, he was aware that the NYC nest of retired agents -- all loyal to Rudy G -- were aware of the "new" batch of e-mails being found on the computer of the husband of a top Clinton aide, and were prepared to leak it to the news.

[wnylib]

28. Your description is how I remember it, too.

[H2O Man]

31. It wasn't good.

And it was certainly one of the factors that hurt Clinton. However, it wasn't Comey's fault that those e-mails were found on a disgraced ex-congressman's computer. Nor was it Hillary's fault.

[kentuck]

35. Good point.

We must be careful about attacking the same people that Trump is attacking. He is attacking them for a reason. He feels threatened by them.

[llmart]

53. +1

Let's put the blame where it belongs.

[BlueIdaho]

6. The enemy of my enemy

Is not my friend.

[Aristus]

7. "The man who uses people and tosses them aside used me and tossed me aside

after I rescued his Presidential campaign with eleven days to go!"

[keithbvadu2]

17. I don't care about Comey. He has ridden both sides of the fence and has no credibility either way.

I don't care about Comey.

He has ridden both sides of the fence and has no credibility either way.

[sprinkleeninow]

29. His careless stunt put the kabosh on HRC's numbers coming into the home stretch.

He continues to 'repent'?

No, been way too damaging for any of that, republican.

What you helped to do cannot be undone.

[kentuck]

19. I don't know if Comey is getting a fair shake?

He didn't have to open an investigation on the Russian meddling in our election and whether or not the Trump campaign was involved? The IG found that the investigation was credible when it was opened, regardless of the mistakes in the FISA process.

Although the Mueller investigation did not find a conspiracy with the Russians, they did find dozens and dozens of instances of collusion. In fact, they discovered that Donald Trump was attempting a deal with Russia to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, even as the campaign was going on, and some have suggested it continued after his nomination, and maybe even after he became President?

That may not have been uncovered if Trump had not fired Comey? Comey refused to give Trump his loyalty.

No doubt, he made some big mistakes. He was not ready for the pressure campaign that was applied upon him, such as opening the new investigation on Hillary's emails that were found on Anthony Weiner's computer.

But, in my opinion, he is a man of integrity. He will probably look much better in the times ahead.

I don't know if anyone here could have withstood the pressure that was put on him by the House Committees and others? He knew something was wrong - he just didn't know what it was?

[Grasswire2]

25. agree nt

[Perseus]

36. "Although the Mueller investigation did not find a conspiracy with the Russians"...

I have my suspicions that Muller MAY have found proof of that and Barr just placed the information in a volt. I don't think we saw all the evidence that was put together during the Muller investigation, there must be so much hidden.

I cannot dispute he is a man of integrity, but regarding your opinion about him not being able to cope with the pressure campaign? I don't buy that one, he is a grown up, a lawyer, he has to have understood the implications of what he did, I don't think he is one of those people who acts without considering all the consequences.

[kentuck]

38. A lot of people have not stood up to Trump...

When the rubber hit the road.

Even after they had accused Trump of all kinds of nasty things.

Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham come to mind.

[leftyladyfrommo]

54. I agree with you. He was caught between a rock and a hard place.

I think he has tried to do everything he could to rectify the situation.

[Ponietz]

20. How I see Comey

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[czarjak]

23. Scale tipping has consequences...

Thanks, Jimmy.

[apkhgp]

24. Not the guy to pat on the back

Comey is not the guy to pat on the back for what he says against 45. His insistent investigation of Hillary and her Emails were one of the things that undermined her campaign.

As for that word "challenge" it has been building up and becoming greater and greater with passing day sibce November 8/2016.

[Skittles]

26. I am still pissed at Comey

but that is an excellent response

[thegoose]

27. Piss off, Comey

Ya wanna start painting pretty pictures to rehabilitate your reputation like Shrub?

[cwydro]

32. This.

[Perseus]

33. "and said he likely would no longer be president if he hadn't fired me." I can follow the logic...

He fired you Comey, because he expected you were going to find out about all his misdeeds and he would have been impeached with crimes that not even his republicans puppies would have been able to justify voting against it as they did in this first round.

And he should be impeached again for "Obstruction of Justice", he fired you to obstruct an investigation against him. Comey, I mean, you should understand that one.

[kentuck]

39. Is Comey to blame for his own firing?

Or is he the victim?

[ClusterFreak]

40. Trump's little 'celebration'as he called it...

...looked like it could have come right out of a scene from Goodfellas or the Untouchables. A giddy, relieved yet fundamentally full of rage Mafia Don, fresh off beating the rap in court, going around the room to pinch the cheeks of his nervously smiling sycophantic goombahs, giving each their props for the role they played in getting him off.

[Kurt V.]

41. *going around the room to pinch the cheeks*

That's good stuff.

[gristy]

43. But they are there because they already support the turd

They have self-selected. So their behavior shouldn't come as any surprise, nor should one find it particularly alarming. Lots of things surprise or alarm me, but this crowd does neither.

[warmfeet]

45. Best pick a side and fight.

We have reached the inflection point.

The assholes on the right were correct about one thing after all. Freedom isn't free. They just didn't know they were pointing to these circumstances and to their chosen one.

[JDC]

48. He's right, but he can still F right off.

[dlk]

49. Comey knowingly and willingly did his part to give us Trump

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And he did it in a completely unethical way. No one cares what he has to say now.

[Brainstormy]

52. WHAT NERVE! N/T

YOU DON'T GET TO COMPLAIN, TRAITOR.

[kentuck]

58. Trump would not have been impeached if not for Comey.

There is no evidence his last investigation had anything to do with the votes behind the blue wall.