COMEY IMPLICITLY SAYS DRUMPF IS A DEPLORABLE AND DISGUSTING PIECE OF LYING TRASH

[DemocratSinceBirth]

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday. Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected, they said, but the department has not released any such statement.

Mr. Comey made the request on Saturday after Mr. Trump leveled his allegation on Twitter. Mr. Comey has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down Mr. Trump’s claim because there is no evidence to support it and it insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said.

A spokesman for the F.B.I. declined to comment. Sarah Isgur Flores, the spokeswoman for the Justice Department, also declined to comment.

A statement by the Justice Department or Mr. Comey refuting Mr. Trump’s allegations would be a remarkable rebuke of a sitting president, putting the nation’s top law enforcement officials in the position of questioning the truthfulness of the government’s top leader. The situation underscores the high stakes of what the president and his aides have set out by accusing the former president of a conspiracy to undermine Mr. Trump’s young administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/trump-seeks-inquiry-into-allegations-that-obama-tapped-his-phones.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=64989981&pgtype=Homepage&_r=1

[mcar]

1. When you've lost Comey...

[Cha]

38. Really. just because trump is basing his accusation on fake news seen

on sleazy sites.

Link to tweet

[Doreen]

2. Are we talking about the guy who helped him

win by screwing over Hillary?

[Gabi Hayes]

7. smokescreen all the way. he refuses to cooperate with the intel committees, as has

been stated by several dems

he's doing this because there's no other plausible position available

the REASON for FISA is what Nixon did, basically. no president in his right mind, if you know what I mean, would try to pull this garbage, and comey is well aware of this.

no risk for him to come out and appear like a truthseeker

pure theater

he's the MAIN reason trump 'won' the election. never forget that. right down at the bottom of the barrel with sandra day oconnor

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Comey sucks and I loathe him for giving us Drumpf.

That being said It puts Drumpf's lie to bed.

BTW, I started a thread that even a legal wiretap of Drumpf would have been fraught with risk and consequently makes it unlikely the Obama DOJ would have sought one.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. puts it to bed among the sane

the followers will trumpet this to their dying day, just as most of them STILL believe all trump's birther nonsense, which is the KEY to establishing this throng of braindead loons who buy into the con of cons' line of never-ending bullshit

it may stop twitler from going any further, but just watch how long it takes the outcry from the crack farms to dry up. bet it takes more than a little time for that

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. Before you can eradicate a disease you have to contain in.

Deplorabilism must remain a pandemic and not become an epidemic.

[Gabi Hayes]

16. here:

https://www.google.com/#q=pandemic+epidemic&*

[ananda]

32. OK ...

I do not trust Comey ever to just do the right thing and set the record straight, even though I never had a moment's doubt that Obama had nothing to do with wiretapping 45. That is why I lean towards the idea that Comey sees the handwriting on the wall and is actually moving towards normalizing the GOP establishment with Pence in charge. -- I'm not sure which is worse, either.

[cstanleytech]

15. Agreed, Comey made his bed and now he will be forever tainted. nt

[NewRedDawn]

33. Absolutely!

Comey at the very least was /is a collaborator of the Coup & at worst a Traitor!

[bettyellen]

3. WOW

[janx]

4. Ooops.

He has officially pissed off the FBI.

[erronis]

21. There are the FBI professionals, and there are the appointees such as Comey

I trust the professionals around 95%. The appointees around 70% altho Comey may lower that number considerably.

This is the whole reason that the repuglicans (and their clown-boy president) are trying to eviscerate the government. Get rid of the professionals and replace them with Liberty University (remember the Ashford DoJ?) and other RWobots.

[longship]

30. I don't remember anything about the Ashford DOJ.

Funny that.

[erronis]

35. My apologies to the fine name "Ashford". Please substitute "Ashcroft".

Liberty, Regent: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040601799.html

[longship]

39. No worries, my friend.

Just didn't want folks here to be Googling AG Ashford, although that might have resulted in some amusing results.

[wishstar]

5. Trump stepped over the line this time by falsely accusing Pres. Obama of a felony

[Cosmocat]

6. POS has himself to thank

Fuck you, shit head.

[Takket]

8. Comey is proving to be quite the enigma..........

[triron]

9. Sessions will suppress any public response.

[BainsBane]

10. That's the guy you made President, Comey

You own this shit.

[kentuck]

12. Comey finally has the goods on Trump.

If Trump were to fire him at this time, he will spill all the beans.

He would still like a little more time to tie the loose ends together but he has the evidence he needs right now, in my opinion.

Otherwise, why would he ask the Justice Dept to reject Trump's assertion about Obama? The AG is his boss. He can be fired at any time.

[virtualobserver]

19. He did it because he KNEW the accusation wasn't true. Comey plays it safe.

He didn't want to be held responsible for remaining silent.

The question is....what will the justice dept do?.....if it remains silent, will Comey publicly speak out....That is why this leaked, because he was afraid to do this directly.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Comey does not play it safe. He recklessly interfered just before the 2016 election. . . . nt

[virtualobserver]

34. he wasn't being reckless....he was trying to cover his own ass

He was trying to protect himself from Republican criticism.

[jmg257]

37. Not so sure...

In addition to being concerned about potential attacks on the bureau’s credibility, senior F.B.I. officials are said to be worried that the notion of a court-approved wiretap will raise the public’s expectations that the federal authorities have significant evidence implicating the Trump campaign in colluding with Russia’s efforts to disrupt the presidential election

.

SO they still have nothing.

[Lucinda]

17. KNR - If Comey is playing the long game here, I am curious what he expects the Trump WH to do now...

and the Justice dept...

It also could be just a normal response supporting Obama's WH and their lack of interference with FBI investigations of Trumpy...but asking for an official statement from Justice feels, to me, like there is more going on here...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. Fucking comey kept a T/P yardsign at the entrance to his driveway. And

Sabotaged Hillary.

He can include himself under the deplorable piece of trash banner.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. I despise Comey for giving us Drumpf but the yard sign story has been debunked.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. Oh, really? Thanks, I hadn't seen that debunking.

I had read that there was a definite anti-Hillary contingent in his department, pretty sure I remember reading that.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. The FBI is rife with hard right Hillary haters, but Comey isn't crazy enough to publicly pick a side

[Boomerproud]

28. Of course he can't side wth them publicly...but actions over words and all that.

I can't wait to see this play out. The Dems better keep this libelous garbage in the news!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. Ah. Thanks for explaining.

I love that you can learn so much here. So many knowledgeable folks.

[Squinch]

24. AND YET... I'm not seeing that public rejection from the DOJ. And until I do, they're all in on the

gaslighting.

This is disgusting.

[Texin]

25. There was nothing IMPLICIT about it.

He explicitly stated that Obama did nothing of the kind. When the FBI director stares down the U.S. Justice Dept. and tells them to refute what the orange shitgibbon stated as truth, he's telling them to state unequivocally that Obama had nothing to do with the FISA wiretaps.

[Gothmog]

26. As Joe Biden would put it, this is a BFD

[NastyRiffraff]

27. Too bad he didn't figure that out before the election

I hold him largely responsible for the Orange Monster being in the White House. It's OUR house and he's trashing it like drunken teenage renters. We'll have to paint, repair and fumigate after he leaves. Hopefully in disgrace.

[ismnotwasm]

29. NO redemption Comey

You're still going to end up in political hell.

[jmg257]

36. Ugh - and the bad news...

In addition to being concerned about potential attacks on the bureau’s credibility, senior F.B.I. officials are said to be worried that the notion of a court-approved wiretap will raise the public’s expectations that the federal authorities have significant evidence implicating the Trump campaign in colluding with Russia’s efforts to disrupt the presidential election

.

SO they still have nothing.