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In reply to the discussion: Smh at how many Democrats can't stop themselves from dragging Comey over Hillary email slights [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)real problem and one not entirely in Comey's control. And Giuliani has very powerfully involved with them for decades.
Given the truly vast sums of money involved, however, it's likely far bigger people than these were and are behind the Republican takeover, although they were certainly players. It was the NY office that announced a week before election day that a 15-year-old investigation into a Bill Clinton pardon had been closed at some point and released 150 pages of documents (showing it found nothing).
And, of course, there was plenty of Giuliani chicanery to go around. The Mueller investigation is only one authority checking out that possible plot to kidnap a man and deliver him to a Turkish prison hell for money.
Comey's OWN long pattern of public behaviors is proof that he was actively working against Democrats though. I've read experts on this, and you can also. No understanding of motive is legally required to establish guilt; the consistent pattern of effects of actions is itself enough to prove a case, if one is ever brought. Note that he violated the Hatch Act -- in public for all to see, but that is an ethical violation, not a criminal violation punishable by incarceration, so the type of proof required is different.
One of the biggest of the unanswered questions is not whether Comey interfered in the election, he did, but whether he decided to commit career suicide all by himself or was conspiring with others. Other questions relate to what other violations and legal crimes might an investigation uncover. It would be strange indeed if those actions we all witnessed were all of it.