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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Apr 21, 2018, 02:24 PM Apr 2018

Whose word to trust between Trump, Comey? Seriously?

They say the best contract is one in which both parties think they got screwed. (They also say, “Ruby you’re like a dream,” which I quoted in the introduction to my college biology research thesis, but that’s not important right now.)

The point is that James Comey has managed to anger both political parties, which, by the aforementioned standard, suggests he did something right.

My feelings are mixed. Unintended outcome it may be, but his actions in the months leading up to the 2016 election, by not revealing that Russia was helping Trump get elected, yet making a last-minute disclosure of what turned out to be nothing new in the Clinton email scandalette, thumbed the scales. Even Kelleyanne Conway accidentally admitted Comey swung the election to Trump. That email announcement was a momentum changer, by the accounts of many informed observers and pollsters.

But I have sympathy: Like President Obama when Bush left him with only bad choices in Iraq, all the options FBI Director Comey faced were lose-lose. Had the “discovered” emails contained damning material, it’d have been a blot on the FBI’s and, sure, the election’s integrity, assuming Secretary Clinton had won. Still, having withheld the Russia information, the standards look a little doublish. In that sense, it’s odd that popular-vote-loser Trump, and Trumpists, see Comey as a villain. Almost as much as they do Putin, voter ID laws (Mother Jones: tinyurl.com/no2dvote), and the Electoral College, the creation of which was intended to prevent the seating of an amoral reprobate like Trump, they owe him for their win. And he has retrospectively admitted concern for rightwing chatter might have influenced his decision publically to criticize Clinton in July.

Comey might come off as self-serving, but it’s unmistakable that, unlike Trump, he’s not an inveterate liar. In a he-said/he-said competition, who’s more credible: a person recognized, throughout decades of government service, as one of integrity, selected for high office by presidents of both parties, approved all but unanimously more than once by the world’s formerly greatest deliberative body (tinyurl.com/go2jim); or one whose business career and personal life consisted of shady deals, lying, cheating, adultery, serial bankruptcies, being sued thousands of times, suing hundreds, and who, since taking office, has disgorged falsehoods at a documented average rate of six per day?

It’s not a close call.

http://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-whose-word-to-trust-between-trump-comey-seriously/?utm_source=DAILY+HERALD&utm_campaign=bbbe82ed5b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d81d073bb4-bbbe82ed5b-228635337

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Whose word to trust between Trump, Comey? Seriously? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2018 OP
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redumbliCONs are tripping and stumbling over their lies and alternative truths. democratisphere Apr 2018 #2
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