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The 7 Big Takeaways From The Comey Hearing
[Town Hall] The Comey hearings were always destined to be a Rorschach Test where each side saw what it wanted to see. That being said, reality doesn’t change because of partisan leanings and ultimately, Comey’s public comments turned out to be good for Trump.1) Despite Multiple Anonymous Reports To The Contrary, Comey Did Tell Trump 3 Times That He Wasn’t Under Investigation In The Russia Probe: Numerous outlets, but most prominently CNN reported that Comey’s testimony would contradict Trump’s claim that Comey told him on three separate occasions that he wasn’t under investigation. As it turns out, Trump was right and the anonymous reports were wrong. Again. 2) The Conspiracy Theory That Says Trump Colluded With Russia To Somehow Steal The Election From Hillary Clinton Is Now Dead: Not only did Comey thoroughly shoot down the idea that Trump was being investigated in the Russia probe, he explicitly denied stories based on anonymous sources that said Trump colluded with the Russians. He added, "Yes, there have been many, many stories based on -- well, lots of stuff but about Russia that are dead wrong." Read it and weep, conspiracy theorists. 3) Loretta Lynch Interfered In The Clinton Investigation: Comey said he was "concerned" that Obama’s Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, asked him to publicly call the criminal investigation of Clinton a "matter" instead. This matched rhetoric used by the Clinton campaign and Comey said he had a problem with it because, "I don't know whether it was intentional or not but it gave the impression that the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way it was describing that. It was inaccurate." Despite the fact that Comey was "concerned" and felt it was "inaccurate," he did as Lynch asked, which doesn’t exactly speak well of his honesty or impartiality. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-11 |
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