james comey may have made the worst blunder in US history

[moonshinegnomie]

If he doesnt release his BS report on hillary she wins and would probably have never needed to hear from the fat slob again

[Kennah]

1. Wait a week. He'll raise his game.

[dem4decades]

2. Comey made it all about him, went out of his lane and destroyed America.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. And Rudy's FBI chums helped, like Charles McGonigal.

Did the FBI’s Charles McGonigal Help Throw the 2016 Election to Trump?

The shocking indictments against the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI in New York raise many dark questions.

By Craig Unger
The National Review, February 1, 2023

In the course of writing two books on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, the same question occurred to me again and again: How is it possible that I knew all sorts of stuff about Donald Trump, and the FBI didn’t seem to have a clue? Or if they did, why weren’t they doing anything with it?

Specifically, I knew that:

* Starting in 1980, an alleged “spotter agent” for the KGB began cultivating Trump as a new asset for Soviet intelligence.

* The Russian mafia laundered millions of dollars through Donald Trump’s real estate by purchasing condos in all-cash transactions through anonymous corporations that did not disclose real ownership.

* Trump Tower was a home away from home for Vyacheslav Ivankov, one of the most brutal leaders of the Russian mafia, and at least 13 people with known or alleged links to the mafia held the deeds to, lived in, or ran alleged criminal operations out of Trump Tower in New York or other Trump properties.

* Trump was some $4 billion in debt when the Russians came to bail him out via the Bayrock Group, a real estate firm that was largely staffed, owned, and financed by Soviet émigrés who had ties to Russian intelligence and/or organized crime.

Much of my material came from FBI documents. A lot came from open-source databases. It made no sense. There was an astounding amount of data on the public record. The FBI had launched enormous investigations of the Russian mafia in the 1980s. They had staked out a New York electronics store that was a haven for KGB officers. They knew that’s where the Trump Organization bought hundreds of TV sets. They had their eyes on Ivankov and other Russian mobsters who were denizens of Trump’s casinos and bought and sold his condos through shell companies. They had to know that Trump laundered money for and provided a base of operations for the Russian mafia, which was, after all, a de facto state actor tied to Russian intelligence. They had to know that the Russians repeatedly bailed Trump out when he was bankrupt. They had to know that Russia owned him.

Snip…

As FBI director, Freeh had warned that Russian organized crime posed a grave threat to the United States that far transcended mere criminality. It is not clear how much he was paid by Prevezon after he switched sides, but Freeh later bought a $9.38 million mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, just a 10-minute drive from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.

Then there was the late James Kallstrom, who ran the FBI’s New York office in the mid-’90s and oversaw successful investigations into both the Italian Mafia and later the Russian mob. Kallstrom had developed close friendships with two key players in the Trump-Russia saga. He worked closely with then–U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudy Giuliani in the investigation of the Cosa Nostra network that led to the famed Mafia Commission Trial of 1985–1986. Going even further back, Kallstrom had also been friends with Donald Trump since around 1973, when Kallstrom was putting together a Trump-funded parade in New York to honor Vietnam veterans.

Continues…

https://newrepublic.com/article/170328/charles-mcgonigal-throw-2016-election

[Quakerfriend]

6. Yes, McGonigal encouraged Comey to go out

and announce the re-opening of the investigation into Hillary. All the while he was ‘in bed with’
Deripaska.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. Not Comey

McGonigal.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

7. This story ought to be huge!

"Internet shocked"??? We are so uninformed. We should have been following his trial, but did we even know there was a trial til now?

"Internet shocked as ex-FBI official Charles McGonigal is sent to prison for 'colluding' with Russia but Trump spared

McGonigal, 55, pleaded guilty in August to violating US sanctions by agreeing to provide services to Deripaska, a Russian tycoon closely linked to Vladimir Putin."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/internet-shocked-as-ex-fbi-official-charles-mcgonigal-is-sent-to-prison-for-colluding-with-russia-but-trump-spared/ar-AA1ly3wy

[triron]

11. Why wasn't Trump prosecuted?

Why does he get a pass?? Seems fishy.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

14. Politics.

We had a Repubican House and Senate for the first two years 2017-18. It took him trying to keep weapons from Zelensky for dirt on Biden to get any accountability from that monster. By that time the illegal actions were piling up. Emoluments Clause became meaningless because of our corrupted SCOTUS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/emoluments-trump-supreme-court.html

[AllaN01Bear]

5. just more useless nonsense because they have nothing to talk about but waste tax payer $

[infullview]

9. Why is this news now?

Maddow covered this connection months ago while she was still full time

[triron]

12. Then MSM killed it.

[kimbutgar]

10. I think that if Hillary had won the orange maniac would have still been screaming the election was

Stolen anyway. Just like he said the election was stolen by Joe Biden and when President Biden wins agains he will scream it was stolen.

He’s a one trick pony who has no other alternate but to scream the election was stolen!!!!!!!

[GoodRaisin]

13. No doubt. nt

[czarjak]

15. "It's not Russia. I don't know why it would be."

Lying bigly.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

16. Never get involved in a land war in Asia?

Sorry. That movie is always in my head.