I hate James Comey.

[boston bean]

Trumpass obstructed justice by firing him. OK?? yES He did.

Still James Comey is a pompous, self righteous egomaniac as far as I am concerned.

My thoughts are is he thought Hillary was going to win and being the good republican he was/is he didn’t want to catch flack from the guys on his team by not indicting an innocent woman and went out of his way to prove himself and to continue to ingratiate himself with the guys he knew would be in charge on Capitol Hill.

He is not a good guy.

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R !

[Zorro]

2. Pompous, self righteous egomaniac is absolutely correct

Fuck that guy. He's a major contributor to where we are today.

[still_one]

3. He is an arragant asshole, and I thought so from the beginning when he released the letter to the

republicans 11 days before the election, and allowed the media and press to characterize it as the email investigation was being reopened, which was a LIE



f**k him.

The truth is, nothing will happen to him

[emulatorloo]

27. Chaffetz released the letter, not Comey

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210734657#post9

[still_one]

29. Comey released the letter to the republicans in congress, and he knew what would happen

[emulatorloo]

30. Comey knew Chaffetz would leak and lie? How do you know that? Link?

How one Congressman punked the media on the FBI letter about Clinton’s emails
No, the FBI did not say it would ‘reopen’ its investigation.
JOSH ISRAEL
OCT 28, 2016, 7:15 PM
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-chaffetz-fbi-investigation-lies-e9fff5359102/

Let’s keep DU somewhat fact-based. I understand your frustration with Comey.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10734774

“And then Chaffetz resigned to avoid a House Ethics investigation. We need a law empowering House Ethics to take criminal action if House members leave office.”

[still_one]

34. I will not give him the beneifit of the doubt. The attorney general told him not to do it 11 days

days before the election. The arrogant pr**k defied authority. The IG agrees, and this occurred on multiple occasions

They FBI was aware of the data for over 2 months. There is no such thing as coincidences

[lunamagica]

4. K&R. So do I! He is pond scum. And he got away with it!

[exboyfil]

5. It would have taken no more than a weekend

to verify that the emails are a copy of the ones already found. The fact that they did not put any effort into doing that prior to the letter tells me all I need to know.

[brer cat]

6. I agree. nt

[thucythucy]

7. It was about covering his own ass

and our democracy be damned.

He'd rather turn the nation over to someone he suspected or perhaps even knew was compromised by or in collusion with Putin, rather than risk taking heat for doing his job the way it should have been done.

It's ironic, and perhaps poetic justice, that the gangsters he helped into power have now turned on him.

But it does nothing to repair the damage already done and is likely to be done to millions of people.

[Power 2 the People]

22. Great line!

It's ironic, and perhaps poetic justice, that the gangsters he helped into power have now turned on him.

[brush]

8. My thoughts are he did everything he could to insure Hillary didn't win. It came out today that...

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he found out about the alleged "new emails" on Weiner's laptop in September of 2016 but withheld that info until late October, 11 days before the election.

He timed it just so to tilt the election to trump.

And I don't buy he was bullied by rogue NY field office agents working with Ghouliani. He was their fucking boss and could've/should've fired their insubordinate asses.

He knew exactly what he was doing, which is also why he didn't disclose he was also investigating trump.

Fuck him and his fake redemption book and campaign. He was a partisan hack determined to get a repug in the WH.

He did and is now trying to make amends for the orange debacle he helped stain our country with.

[sprinkleeninow]

25. Brush tells it. 👏 eom

[EndGOPPropaganda]

9. Don't absolve Jason Chaffetz, GOP slimeball

Jason Chaffetz got the letter and immediately LEAKED it.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-chaffetz-fbi-investigation-lies-e9fff5359102/

And then Chaffetz resigned to avoid a House Ethics investigation. We need a law empowering House Ethics to take criminal action if House members leave office.

[DURHAM D]

10. He is a sanctimonious dick.

But driving his political decision to wrongly condemn Hillary and ignore the DOJ directives was based on the fact that he is a raging Sexist Pig.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Lordy you can say that again!

I made a list of the reasons that Hillary lost after the election (I still have it and my I VOTED sticker)and his name is on the top. If I hear one more time that she ran a faulty campaign I will puke. In her book she wrote that IT IS HIS FAULT and she is correct!

[rickyhall]

11. What gets to me

is I run into who think Hillary is no different from Trump' Why call our country Stupid Land

[lunasun]

18. My friend said to be nice and call it Land of the Unenlightened Ones

I said Yeah but stupid isn't mean when it's truth

[EndGOPPropaganda]

23. It's the GOP propaganda media

Fox, Limbaugh, Levin, Hewitt, Reason, Federalist, Breitbart, IJR, Gateway Pundit, Wash Times, Wash examiner, NY Post, WSJ Opinion pages, Daily Caller, Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, Cato, Heritage, Jud Watch

The right wing propaganda machine is the ONLY reason people believe lies like that.

The fault lies mainly with the propagandists like Murdoch, Hannity, Mercer’s, etc.

Without right wing propaganda media (for which there is no equivalent on the left) GOP Congress would be standing up against Trump and we’d be rid of him.

[JHB]

41. Yup. It becomes the background radiation...

...that has turned the perspective of what was once ranting cranks into the new normal, and it affects even people who try to stay on top of it, much less those paying only casual attention, if that.

[cally]

13. All you posted, plus a problem with women in authority

He will not accept Atty. General Lynch’s authority and does all he can to prevent the first woman President. It is not a coincidence that he did this to powerful women.

[elmac]

14. I hate putin

and all right wingers in general, I guess that means comey too.

[deurbano]

15. And I think he wanted to make it impossible for Clinton to fire him... and to serve notice that

she would always be in his cross hairs.

(Back in the day, when we had executive branch and legislative branch norms, before the GOP blew them all up, his election "performance" would have ensured she wouldn't have been "allowed" to get rid of him.)

[FakeNoose]

24. Yes - he thought Hillary was going win, and she would be his new boss

Maybe he wanted to have the upper hand, in case there was ever a problem. I don't believe Comey actively tried to sink her campaign, he assumed she was going to win. He says he was between a rock and a hard place. Well thanks Comey, now we're all right along with you!

[lunasun]

16. I never got why a lot of libs were letting him slide because he wrote a book or shrugged why me

[StevieM]

17. The FBI screwed her. So did the State Department Inspector General's office.

They were weaponized to obliterate her campaign by giving the appearance of validity to a phony scandal.

[milestogo]

19. Appointing him was Barack Obama's biggest mistake.

Fuck bipartisanship.

[lunasun]

26. So many bites and we see how not bipartisan repugs are when in power . No more !

[deurbano]

31. He should have paid more attention to how Freeh worked out for Bill Clinton...

and the country: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2002/07/the_man_who_wasnt_there.html

As you said: Fuck bipartisanship. It's just unilateral disarmament when dealing with an unscrupulous, shameless and power hungry enemy.

[world wide wally]

20. He should have been fired when he gave his editorial opinion on Hillary in July

[47of74]

21. If I had my way there'd be a brand new Republican Row at ADX Florence...

...and Comey would be in the cell next to Herr Orange's for the rest of their lives.

[Honeycombe8]

28. He wouldn't have been sucking up to those that would be in power.

No one, even Trump, thought Trump would win.

Altho he probably cost her some votes, the polls (12 out of 13) still showed right before the election that Hillary would win. Almost every single poll.

Who knows why Comey did either of those press conferences. But I've seen he's not adept at political wrangling. He got carried away or concerned he'd be blamed for something. Whatever it was, it was wrong, and the FBI says it was insubordination.

He's a straight arrow, dork kinda guy. He's not good at politics. He made a big mistake. I haven't seen anything to indicate that he had an ulterior motive. He screwed up big time.

He's not the cause of all the problems or Trump getting elected. I'm convinced of it. It was Russia. Russia used social media, and so did the Trump team, AND I'm convinced Russia manipulated the voting systems in several key districts in just 2 maybe 3 states. That's all it took.

[emulatorloo]

32. He's a credible witness against Trump in the obstruction of justice case

At this point that’s all that matters.

[still_one]

35. Not necessarily, since the IG said he defied authority, he is a tainted witness.

The potential for Obstruction of justice, and other serious charges still exist though through the Mueller investigation

[certainot]

33. comey was a fucking idiot, but the left were/is more stupid

for ignoring talk radio - which created most of the buzz he reacted to

liberals should have been protesting those talk radio stations 30 years ago when it all started

so if the left had pulled it's ipod out of it's ass none of this shit would have happened

[RandiFan1290]

40. Have you seen what they do to people here that bring up

Randi Rhodes or Thom Hartmann?

Only allowed to praise republicons like Joe Scarborough, Richard Painter, Steve Schmidt, Ana Navarro, etc

[Hortensis]

43. Lol. DU's prefer conservatives because we reject a Kremlin channeler

and call out subversive spins that are posted here?

Not exactly.

As for Rhodes, that loose cannon, didn't know she was still around. I didn't mind her acidic lobs at the right long ago. But if any of her current messages are encouraging you to accuse DU's overwhelmingly liberal Democrats of preferring right wing voices, you probably should carefully select those out before quoting her. Of course, DUers are going to object.

In fact, if the accusation didn't strike me as laughably stupid but usefully revealing of its poster, I'd object myself.

[StTimofEdenRoc]

36. Perhaps now the D's will learn not to appoint R's to Law Enforcement and Defense positions

[Hortensis]

44. Presumably for 245 years our leaders have always

been dumber than two bags of rocks. I'd give up hope that our leaders could ever know as much as those who don't step up to the lines do.

[Squinch]

37. Yeap. Exactly.

[RandiFan1290]

38. Obama should have known better

and tossed the fucking republiscum when he took office.

Time for the Democrats to stop trying to be friends with these people.

[ProfessorGAC]

39. Recommended (nt)

[Gothmog]

42. Comey is pond scum

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