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Comey and Colbert


‘I’m like a breakup he can’t get over’: James Comey joins Stephen Colbert and mocks Trump

by Emily Yahr
April 18

CBS’s “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert could barely contain his glee as he started his show on Tuesday night. “It’s Comey Day, everybody!” he announced to his studio audience, who cheered wildly.
“In the last few days, he has called you ‘Slippery [James],’ and he has called you a slimeball. Anything to say back?”

“No. He’s tweeted at me probably 50 times. I’ve been gone for a year. I’m like a breakup he can’t get over,” Comey said, in a rare bit of dry mockery. “I’m out there living my best life. He wakes up in the morning and tweets at me.”

Comey got a lot of attention for comparing Trump to the mob.

“The leadership style is actually strikingly similar,” he said. “I don’t mean it in the sense that Donald Trump is out breaking legs or shaking down shopkeepers. I mean it in the sense that he leads, it’s all about the boss. What will serve the boss best? How are you helping the boss?”

“Were you surprised that you got whacked?” Colbert asked.

“I actually was quite surprised because I thought I’m leading the Russia investigation,” Comedy said. “Even though our relationship was becoming strained, there’s no way I’m going to get fired or whacked.

“Why wouldn’t you get fired?” Colbert pressed.

“Because that would be a crazy thing to do. Why would you fire the FBI director who is leading the Russia investigation?” Comey said.

Colbert paused. “Because you’re leading the Russia investigation!” he exclaimed, as the audience laughed.

Colbert asked, “What was the consideration to sending a letter to Congress saying you were reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails after Anthony Weiner’s laptop was found to have 100,000 emails on it? … The norm and the standard was that the FBI does not discuss anything having to do with a political campaign 60 days out from the election.”

Comey said, “That’s not true — the 60-day thing, I don’t know where that comes from.” The actual important norm, he said, is, “You take no action, if you can avoid it, that might have an impact on any election.”

“Well, you had to imagine this would have an effect,” Colbert pointed out.
Comey defended his decision, saying Clinton’s emails on Weiner’s laptop were from her earliest months as secretary of state, and those messages could have contained a “smoking gun” in the investigation he had missed before.

“So at that point, what do you do? Take no action if you can avoid it. And I kept looking for a door that said, ‘No action here,’ and I can’t find it. I could only see two doors and they were both action. One said ‘speak’ and the other said ‘conceal.' Speaking would be really bad. Concealing would be catastrophic, in my judgment; again, people can see it differently. So as between really bad and catastrophic, it’s not that hard a call. You gotta do the really bad thing.”

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Re: Comey and Colbert


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Comey defended his decision, saying Clinton’s emails on Weiner’s laptop were from her earliest months as secretary of state, and those messages could have contained a “smoking gun” in the investigation he had missed before.



It seems unlikely that they would have contained a "smoking gun" if the ones already looked at hadn't contained one. What did he think they might find? Some extremely secret information that Hillary had sent to Weiner's computer for no good reason?

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“So at that point, what do you do? Take no action if you can avoid it. And I kept looking for a door that said, ‘No action here,’ and I can’t find it. I could only see two doors and they were both action. One said ‘speak’ and the other said ‘conceal.' Speaking would be really bad. Concealing would be catastrophic, in my judgment; again, people can see it differently. So as between really bad and catastrophic, it’s not that hard a call. You gotta do the really bad thing.”



That sounds like pure baloney coming from someone who may have been biased in favor of Trump and possibly too influenced by things which Trump had said. Like the mainstream news media, Comey really didn't want to appear biased in favor of Hillary and worked his tail off to avoid any appearance of that sort of bias. Not saying anything about a renewed investigation right before the election would not have been "catastrophic" in any way except in his imagination. And he might still have his job now.
4/18/2018, 10:38 am Link to this post PM Philer Blog
 


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