The NYT is reporting that former FBI Director James Comey met with Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein, days before being fired and asked for additional funding and staff to pursue his Russian hacking witch-hunt.
Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, according to three officials with knowledge of his request.
Mr. Comey asked for the resources during a meeting last week with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who wrote the Justice Department’s memo that was used to justify the firing of the F.B.I. director this week.
Mr. Comey then briefed members of Congress on the meeting in recent days.
There are two diabolically different ways to look at this.
1. The main stream media and the left interpret the firing as evidence that Trump is trying to either disrupt or greatly damage the investigations into Russian election meddling. Moreover, the fact that Comey had just asked for more funding for the probe, just before being fired, is suspicious or ‘Nixonian’ to borrow some catch phrases from my Twitter feed. They coupled the firing of Yates and Comey and conclude Trump is a traitor.
2. The right view the firing as long overdue. Hardly anyone on the right believes that Russia had any involvement in hacking the election, nor connected to Wikileaks. They believe the democrat and media response, which is one and the same, is the result of being embarrassed by revelations in the Podesta leaks that proved DNC collusion against Sanders and widespread corruption amongst the parties elite. Moreover, the election loss of Hillary Clinton provoked this narrative to run into overdrive, also fueled by American meddling in Syria — which was negated by Russia’s support of the Assad regime. In other words, republicans believe that Comey was part of the problem, the swamp, and his dismissal was rightly justified, regardless of the timing.
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Occam’s razor favors #1
Conservatives don’t know what that means.
Maybe trump wins back the right by making trey gowdy fbi director. Get back to draining the swap. Put killer in jail not trump.
Killery in jail not trump.
Hillary has never been charged with a crime, much less convicted of one. But Trudumpsters are so rabid that they love to not only decide that someone is guilty until proven innocent, in contrast to how the law works in the U.S. They have to also chant “Lock her up” about an innocent person. Because that’s how low class people act.
Killary foundation money trail did not go away. Nor the emails. Just need new leadership with better focus.
Yes, the emails where she broke no law are still there. And the lack of evidence of pay to play at Clinton Foundation still exists. And so Right Wingers believe Right Wing media lies, in the absence of any evidence whatsoever, and so feel justified in belittling an innocent woman by calling her “Killary”– a reference to all the people that Right Wing media lies claim she killed.
Spite and meanness– that’s what the GOP is about. Wow, I wonder why they can’t do anything constructive. Duhhhh.
Yes, all the evidence of illegal, politically motivated spying and unmasking of the Republican candidate’s team is still there. And the lack of evidence of any collision between the Trump campaign and the Russians, confirmed by both Democrat and Republican leadership, still exists. And so Left Wingers believe Left Wing mainstream media lies. In the absence of any evidence whatsoever, and so feel justified in belittling an innocent man by calling him “Drumpf”, a racist reference to his German heritage that the Left Wing lies try to use to compare him to Hitler.
Spite and meanness–that’s what the DNC is about. Wow, I wonder why they can’t do anything constructive.
Duhhhh.
Trump has never been charged with a crime, much less convicted of one. But Demotards are so rabid that they love to not only decide that someone is guilty until proven innocent, in contrast to how the law works in the U.S. They also have to chant “Traitor” about an innocent person. Because that’s how low class people act.
Can we please get an FBI Director who will spend taxpayer money on real crime instead of political witch hunts?
No, leftists must be hunted down like the mangy dogs they are.
Real crime is real crime. Leftists don’t get a free pass, no matter how much they feel entitled to one.
Seems like a good place to start is all the pedophiles in Congress. I don’t care what side of the aisle they’re on, lock them up!
rule of “journalism”:
If a scandal breaks on the right, focus on the scandal. If a scandal breaks on the left, focus on the source of the information and blame the messenger.
In this case, it’s either doubly weird or the media has upped its game because allegedly the messenger is the scandal (potentially).
That doesn’t mean there’s not something there, but those who pretend to know one way or another based upon the limited (and partisan) information citizens have are likely fooling themselves.
The hilarious part of this is how blatantly these DNC shills are doing a complete 180 on firing Comey. Imagine the political ads in the next election cycle with the video showing them directly contradicting themselves.
He should be fired! Total disgrace!
Travesty that he was fired! Was doing a great job!
There may be be evidence of Russian interference in U.S. Presidential Election, but no evidence of Russian collusion with Trump campaign, nor have Dems produced anything remotely worth following up on. If there was anything thing worth pursuing, a whistleblower would have come forward by now. So stop wasting time and get on to the business of passing new healthcare plan that works, tax cuts/reform, infrastructure bill and a repatriation of foreign funds. This is all bullshit. The guy got fired and he deserved it. Everybody knows that.
Seth Rich was not a Russian, but a Bernie Bro who was killed for leaking Dem misdeeds.
The dems instigated this whole scuffle? Well, gotta get media attention somehow.
you forgot option 3.
the dems don’t know where to cry about their faults and need to focus public attention on a simple enemy : trump/russia
( anyone who now think still that Trump and Putin / Russia colluded into election has some veru serious mental deficits , I couldn’t be more surprised to see E. Warren has them )
Trump is the antichrist of their melting , is like a parade that they have to do for 4/8 years, until extinction .. i doubt in 4 years when the swamp is purges there wil be many citizens tryin to elect any more obamas or clintons again
did i say the dems OWN 95% of MSM , that is largely criminal in a free “democratic liberal” country..republicans just do not care enough in the morning to be shill bitch or whores of some state sponsored ads..so they eventually left MSM to others .
Liberal “democratic” journalism is the status quo
conservative / alt right journalism is the antichrist
from RT
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said
“First of all, we have discussed our cooperation on the international stage. It’s been confirmed that despite all the difficulties, our countries can and must act together to help solve key problems on today’s international agenda,” Lavrov said at a press conference at the Russian embassy in Washington, following a meeting with President Trump.
The US and Russia will continue working together on various issues, including the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, Lavrov noted, adding they aim to remove all barriers hindering efficient cooperation.
Meetings between deputies of Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will continue in order to tackle “those irritants that have been artificially planted into our relations,” the Russian foreign minister said.
“We have thoroughly discussed Syria, including those ideas about creating de-escalation zones. We have a shared understanding that this must be a step made jointly to put an end to violence in Syria,”
“US officials are harming their own people by saying that Russia might have influenced the elections and is standing behind US internal affairs”
Lavrov added that he and President Trump did not touch upon the subject of Russia’s alleged meddling in the US elections in 2016, calling the media hype around the subject an “orgy.”