• egregiousRac@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    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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      3 days ago

      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.