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In reply to the discussion: Did Comey Sacrifice Hillary to Get at Trump and His Traitor Posse? [View all]forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)1: Hillary was up big (about 5-10), and it was reasonable to assume she would win even if she lost 3-5 points in the polls. (which is just about what she lost).
2: If the rogue agents at the NY FBI leak it first, Hillary may well be hurt EVEN MORE because it plays into the whole "globalist deep state conspiracy" shit, and huts HIS credibility on Trump-Russia which is important because even if Trump loses, the fact remains that a fascist authoritarian state tried to take over the country using a Manchurian Candidate, literally the worst Cold War fantasies come to life except the adversary is extreme right, not Stalinist, aka an existential, DEFCON 0 threat to a democratic nation.
Basically Comey was trying to do damage control on the issue because he, with a lot of justification, likely reasoned that doing nothing, or announcing Trump was under investigation before there was more hard evidence would be even worse, both for Hillary, the Trump-Russia investigation and his own credibility. Comey also couldn't have predicted that the media would continue to shill for Trump all the way until the end (that's one major issue with institutionalism - you don't notice the institutions have been rotted until its too late, and the mainstream media is an institution at some point they SHOULD have come to their senses and started sounding the alarm, but they needed those ratings).
Honestly if Comey hated the Clintons and wanted to help Trump, he could have recommended indictment in July.