On a scale of 1-10 how likely was it that Trump, Comey, and Putin were in cahoots?

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7. nobody "preserves their legacy" by violating laws and policies for personal gain.

that's called "achieving notoriety".

i agree that there was that backdrop at fbi, that there were plenty on the rabid right both inside and outside the fbi that were pissed at him for dropping the case against hillary.

but what he did only redeems him in the eyes of people who put hyper-partisanship way, way, way over law, principle, ethics, justice, etc. his last-minute move hurt hillary politically but did nothing to advance any sense of justice in the case against her, and it swayed an election affecting the entire country for the sake of balancing the scales against a single target.


no. he did it because he knew that what he had was gold, that it was worth a ton of money and celebrity for him within the republican community.

so, yeah, maybe he was motivated by losing his place in the pantheon of fbi legends, but he wasn't trying to redeem himself in that area. he was carving out for himself a different legacy, in a community that only cares about partisan crap.