FBI Director James Comey appears to be reopening the investigation against Hillary Clinton regarding her email server.
More than that, he’s broken with DOJ tradition and the will of AG Loretta Lynch, and has informed Congress about the reopened investigation.
The media can’t seem to figure out what is going on. The Clinton email scandal was a Vast-Right-Wing-Conspiracy-Nothingburger©, according to the echo chamber. So why is Comey doing this?
Here’s my take:
The whole thing stunk from the very beginning.
There was the tarmac meeting between Lynch and Bill Clinton.
Comey’s original press statement was pretty much “she did it, but we doubt we can find a jury to convict her, so we’re not going to bother pressing charges.”
Next we find out that a State Department official offered someone at the FBI for a “quid pro quo” deal to help Clinton, all at arms length from Hilary.
Then we find out recently that Virginia Governor and Clinton puppet and proxy Terry McAuliffe has a Super PAC which donated nearly half a million dollars to the Senate bid of the wife of an FBI official who was investigating Hillary Clinton.
This is about as much evidence of a conspiracy as you can get without actual video of a confession and a handover of cash. Now it wreaks of criminality and influence peddling.
Where do we go from here…
Trump can’t build a wall, we know that’s impossible. There are a lot of populist campaign promises that Trump has made that are unrealistic if not totally illegal or impossible.
Trump, if he gets elected, will have gotten elected on a populist wave, and so will have to do something big for his populist supporters or they will turn on him.
There is one thing that he can totally do… hire a DOJ that is not afraid of or influenced by the Clintons and have a special prosecutor appointed to have her tried and convicted.
If Trump wants to deliver on one campaign promise in a big way to his supporters, a real trial of the Clintons and their machine is within his power as the Chief Executive of this country.
I think Comey thinks that Trump is going to win the Presidency. Trump is +2 in Florida. I think Comey is afraid Trump will follow through on his promise to jail Hillary. Comey wants to get himself out of a position where he can be accused of obstructing justice by whomever Trump puts in charge of the Clinton investigation.
I’m not an expert in politics, but I believe he is trying to save his career betting on a Trump Presidency.
Interesting take on things.
Why would anyone say that Trump cannot build a wall? I’m betting that he CAN and get it done ahead of schedule and under budget.
I prefer to think he’s trying to regain a sense of integrity.
I think that the original investigation was done by the politically correct, nuanced and connected Washington, DC FBI. The DC FBI went through the motions, offered immunity from prosecution liberally and unwisely, and EVEN voluntarily destroyed evidence like laptops to reach their predetermined conclusions and narratives. Heck, the Democrats even gave $600,000.00 to the political campaign of the wife of the Deputy FBI Director, McCabe, in charge of “investigating” Hillary.
The FBI Agents working the Wiener(?!?) pedophile investigation were competent, not politically correct. They found actual evidence, and rather than destroying it, they reported it. Comey could not shut them down, because they probably had someone(s) that was willing go public, just like “the experts” told us the Washington FBI would, rather than rolling over for the whitewash like they actually did.
Comey had no choice, all he can do now is hope this Clinton Cover Up Fiasco doesn’t completely destroy the FBI.
Didn’t Comey receive money from the Clinton Foundation at his prior job? Or his previous employer did while he was there? I figured he had blood on his hands as well and didn’t want to indict Hillary for fear of winding up indicted himself at some point. You might be right, though. Maybe he finally realized the agents investigating had seen enough and were fed up with stonewalling. Whatever happened, for this to be reopened so close to election day is great news.
Sign me up for jury duty!
Asking for integrity from Comey is just way too much. He’s a sleaze and like Justice Roberts he will be trying to excuse his sleaziness for the rest of his life. If he made a change from “Hill’s committed a bunch of crimes, but she’s not gonna be investigated because reasons”, it’s either because he was ordered to by the White House or because he no longer thinks there’ll be a payout from Hill for ruining his reputation on her behalf.
My bet is that in the next week, either Hillary will “fall down a flight of stairs” or she’ll “announce her retirement from the race for health reasons”. Yes, scare quotes intended. There’s people in the Democratic Party realizing that there’s more at stake for them in this election than just one old lady’s ego.