• Optional@lemmy.world
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    It is. But alsointeresting in that Comey considers himself, as he believes law should be, outside of politics. Not that he doesn’t see what a shitstorm he created, or that he doesn’t have opinions, just that in his worldview, the law is the law, facts are facts, and that’s how it’s supposed to work.

    By itself that’s not the worst thing in the world. But since that’s just not the casein the grand scheme of things, he was tricked into kneecapping Clinton’s campaign, ate a bucket of shit under trump, was illegally fired for trying to find out who in russia was paying for his presidency, and is now having to show up in court to answer charges that he was mean to a demented rapist sociopath.

    It’s kind of funny. If he had just inhaled he might not have been in this position.

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      He wasn’t tricked into kneecapping her campaign. Her campaign was being kneecapped by ratfuckery and he was trying to soften it.

      Republicans handed something to the FBI that would force them to reopen the case, knowing that it wouldn’t show anything new, just so that they could then wail about the FBI keeping it quiet to help Clinton.

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        My understanding was that Rudy’s peeps at SDNY were sending (fake) messages about how they’d found shit on Weiner’s computer and this would force them to re-open and Comey’s DC peeps always in some sort of dick-measuring thing with SDNY wanted to jump on it first.

        Also, even that would have been less than having a press conference to announce the reopening. That was the big kaboom. And anyone in DC knew it. He knew it. Then- as obviously sweet fuck-all came out of it - he later realized it was bullshit.