I didn't watch the interview of James Comey by a former Clinton staffer on ABC last night. What was the point. Comey has already leaked everything he know about the Russia-Trump stuff, so there was little chance of real news. The morning newscasts bore out that fact. On CBS, the headline was that Comey said that it was "possible" that the Russians have information on President Trump that they could use to blackmail him. It was also "possible" that the portion of the phony Trump dossier that says that Trump hired prostitutes to pee on a bed that Obama once occupied in Moscow is true. CBS left out from its report that it almost anything is "possible". Comey's use of the word is the clearest indication that he has no evidence and no reason to believe that any of this stuff is true.
What has come from the interview, however, is a surprising truth: when Comey first told then President-elect Trump about the Trump Dossier in January of 2017, Comey already knew that the document had been compiled at the behest of and at the cost of the DNC and the Clinton campaign. He also knew that the author, Christopher Steele had been fired by the FBI as an informant because he leaked things to the media and lied about it. Comey knew these things, but had didn't tell Trump about them. Here's a man who was supposedly briefing the President-elect but who left out the most salient fact: the dossier was a hit-job bit of opposition research put together by the Democrats to try to get Trump. Oh, and Comey didn't mention that the phony dossier was given to the FISA court under Comey's signature even though it was known to be questionable at best and completely unverified. In other words, Comey was setting up Trump in that "briefing" which Comey himself requested. It was surely no surprise to Comey that the dossier and the details of the briefing were leaked to the media within a day or two of the event happening. Since only Comey and Trump were at the briefing, and since it's pretty clear that Trump didn't leak the details, we have a reasonably good basis to know that Comey gave the briefing and then leaked the details, just to get that phony Trump dossier materials into the press.
I would say it is possible that Comey is political scum, but it is actually more than possible. Comey proved his own true identity with the words that came out of his own mouth.
What has come from the interview, however, is a surprising truth: when Comey first told then President-elect Trump about the Trump Dossier in January of 2017, Comey already knew that the document had been compiled at the behest of and at the cost of the DNC and the Clinton campaign. He also knew that the author, Christopher Steele had been fired by the FBI as an informant because he leaked things to the media and lied about it. Comey knew these things, but had didn't tell Trump about them. Here's a man who was supposedly briefing the President-elect but who left out the most salient fact: the dossier was a hit-job bit of opposition research put together by the Democrats to try to get Trump. Oh, and Comey didn't mention that the phony dossier was given to the FISA court under Comey's signature even though it was known to be questionable at best and completely unverified. In other words, Comey was setting up Trump in that "briefing" which Comey himself requested. It was surely no surprise to Comey that the dossier and the details of the briefing were leaked to the media within a day or two of the event happening. Since only Comey and Trump were at the briefing, and since it's pretty clear that Trump didn't leak the details, we have a reasonably good basis to know that Comey gave the briefing and then leaked the details, just to get that phony Trump dossier materials into the press.
I would say it is possible that Comey is political scum, but it is actually more than possible. Comey proved his own true identity with the words that came out of his own mouth.
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