Former FBI Director James Comey believed Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 election. So much so, that Comey wrote in his new book that he worried the FBI, Justice Department and Clinton’s potential presidency would face intense criticism if he hadn’t announced the reopening of her private email server probe less than two weeks before the election.
Fired by Trump in May, Comey has launched this week the media tour for his new book, A Higher Loyalty, with excerpts and quotes scattered across news outlets. Most of them have been damning accusations or insults about Trump's White House, but the book also reportedly delves deep into his handling of the Clinton investigation, The Guardianreported Friday.
Comey was worried that the country’s top law enforcement agencies would suffer if the public later discovered the FBI had obtained new emails in the Clinton probe. But he said he also believed Clinton would still prove victorious.
He wrote: “Assuming, as nearly everyone did, that Hillary Clinton would be elected president of the United States in less than two weeks, what would happen to the FBI, the Justice Department or her own presidency if it later was revealed, after the fact, that she still was the subject of an FBI investigation?”
Comey famously told lawmakers in a letter on October 28, 2016—11 days before the election—that the FBI had “learned of the existence of emails that appear be pertinent to the [Clinton] investigation.” That revelation came more than three months after Comey said at a press conference that the FBI would not be charging Clinton.
Since losing the election, Clinton has blamed Comey, in part, for her loss.Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton accused ex-FBI director James Comey of swinging the 2016 election to Donald Trump. In his new book, Comey admits he has some regrets about Clinton’s private email server investigation. Getty Images/Scott Olson
Trump, who has accused Comey of leaking information to the press and lying about their interactions, initially praised Comey at a campaign rally in Michigan on October 31, 2016. "That was so bad what happened originally, and it took guts for Director Comey to make the move that he made in light of the kind of opposition he had where they’re trying to protect her from criminal prosecution," Trump said. "It took a lot of guts."
Comey said in his new tome that he would have made different choices regarding the email probe. “Hindsight is always helpful, and if I had to do it over again, I would do some things differently,” he wrote.
Specifically, Comey pointed to the verbiage he used at that July 2016 press conference to describe Clinton’s actions while she was secretary of state. Comey wrote: “More important, I would have tried to find a better way to describe Secretary Clinton’s conduct.... My use of ‘extremely careless’ naturally sounded to many ears like the statutory language—‘grossly negligent’—even though thoughtful lawyers could see why it wasn’t the same.”
B.S. Hillary was never going to win, with all her scamming she still lost by millions of votes, she never even came close to getting more of the popular vote, the truth be told she lost by somewhere around 15m votes, those are the real numbers, if someone tells you different there full of shit or a Clinton troll scumbag.
ReplyDeleteHo ho, shows what u know. "Voting" is just a scam, and always has been--what counts is the "media" which convinces the fools, suckers, and goons that the scam and fraud is legitimate and genuine--and hitlery had it all in the bag, including the scam "voting" and media. But then something happened, and suddenly the "deep-state" scammers changed their minds. Maybe it's true there actually was a huge land-slide against hitlery, but it all goes way "deep-state" wants, w. totally fraudulent, corrupt, criminal "voting," "media," and judicial-legal system w. totally bought-sold politicians and judges. Something happened--Trump evidently promised Israel (behind the "neo-cons" and "Judeo-Christians") to nuke Iran, or something big like that, so they suddenly then changed things. The "leftist" "liberals" and "globalists" (more atheistic) felt betrayed and haven't forgiven Trump, as we see.
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DeleteSee, it all goes the way "deep-state" determines by means of the funny-money system, the US Federal Reserve Bank (see Mises.org for expo) which is literally legalized counterfeiting, putting-out INFINITE funds, evermore worthless, the biggest and topmost scam at the top of the whole society/culture. By means of this totally criminal fraud, INFINITE currency (it's not real money), these satanic monsters end-up owning everyone and everybody, literally--and if u don't like it, they just have u killed by paying a crack-head, then paying another crack-head to kill the first one to eliminate witnesses.
The scam and criminal society founded and controlled by this topmost criminal enterprise, Central-banking, is founded upon the stupidity of the over-populated scum, called "the people," who imagine real money doesn't have to be commodity-based w. real, "intrinsic worth." So the monsters see they can just put out tons and tons of paper w. green ink, and nowadays digitalized (computer) entries, called CURRENCY--not real money. And the suckers go for it, the stupid scum.
So now what happens?--the monsters at top must see to it the suckers don't "get smart," so they start killing them slowly, as by means of poison vaccines, poison drugs, poison GMO food and food-additives, poison (fluoridated) water, and toxic radiation, nuke and electro-magnetic, poison "chem-trails," etc.--the stupid goons being sickened and killed six ways to Sunday, ho ho ho ho ho. Do the goons ever get smart?--not as long as there's "bread and circuses," TV and football games. ZOG even provides a medical bureaucracy where the morons can go to "cure" the poison drugs, etc., by means of MORE poison drugs, ho ho ho ho ho. Thus the corrupt, satanic society is destroyed in CYCLIC fashion, in accord w. Spengler's "Decline of the West."