After this, James Comey, the former FBI Director who led the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s illegal email server use, and his reputation are shot. They’re finished. Done. Totally dead. No resuscitation.
It’s said the greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world he didn’t exist. Well, nearly topping that is Comey’s ruse: becoming a Democrat hero after costing Hillary Clinton the election.
If you listen to the failed presidential candidate, she’ll tell you that it was Comey, not her severe unpleasantness, that helped Trump win. Not long after Election Day 2016, Clinton claimed: “There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful. Our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.”
Everyone remembers when Comey announced just weeks prior to the election that the FBI was reconsidering its case against Hillary’s illegal email use. That’s why Clinton blames him for her loss. This, even though we knew Comey wrote a note exonerating Clinton before she was even questioned.
Now we’re just learning that Comey read the tea leaves a little too closely in reopening the Clinton investigation so close to Election Day.
Vox reports:
In his new book A Higher Loyalty, former FBI Director James Comey admits what most observers had inferred — that the overwhelming conventional wisdom that Hillary Clinton was going to win on Election Day played a role in his fateful decision to refocus the campaign on the email matter in late October.
“It is entirely possible,” Comey writes, “that because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls. But I don’t know.”
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— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) April 12, 2018
There is something severely amiss about all of this. It’s not the FBI Director’s business to track political races or election odds. They are supposed to enforce the law. Period.
Comey’s admission totally destroys his credibility. It shows a lack of neutral judgment. He was banking on Clinton winning, and her having the moral authority to govern. That isn’t the kind of behavior we should expect from our public officials.
Nate Silver, the famously liberal data journalist, absolutely hammers Comey on this point:
If Comey’s decision to release the letter on Oct. 28 was influenced by his interpretation of the polls, that really ought to cut against his image as an honorable, principled decision-maker. Instead, he was just being expedient and trying to save his own hide.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 13, 2018
Verdict: Trump was right to fire him.
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