Interviewed in the House Intelligence Committee in private Dec. 8, 58-year-old former FBI Director James Comey took off the gloves, denouncing Republicans that defend President Donald Trump. Comey testified for five yours refusing to answer the GOP’s questions about the basis for the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court Act [FISA] warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. Comey said he couldn’t recall, remember or recollect 245 times, claiming to remember every detail of his conversation with Trump, insisting that the president tried to influence his decision to prosecute former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Flynn got no satisfaction at his much-awaited sentencing hearing today, told by Clinton appointee, D.C., U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan that he “sold out his country,” and would postpone for another three months his sentencing.
Comey gets every opportunity by the media he wants to rip Trump who fired him May 9, 2017 for insubordination, breaching FBI protocol. Comey had trouble remembering former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Steele “dossier,” filled with salacious accusations against Trump and his campaign. Testifying Dec. 8, Comey sidestepped, evaded and shunned any suggestion that he used Hillary’s opposition research for probable cause to get FISA warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. Comey calls this or Hillary’s email investigation old news, something he shouldn’t have to answer. “This is the president of the United States calling a witness who is cooperating with his own Justice Department a ‘rat.’ Say that again to yourself at home and remind yourself where we have ended up,” referring to Trump calling Cohen a “rat” for his plea bargain for reduced jail time.
Comey wants to avoid any of his culpability in the worst abuse of the nation’s national security apparatus in history for the purpose of helping Hillary get elected. While it’s true that Comey hurt Hillary by reopening the email scandal 10 days before the Nov. 6, 2018 election, it’s also true that he worked closely with former President Barack Obama, former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch and National Security Adviser Susan Rice to wiretap Trump campaign officials for unverified allegations of Russian collusion made in the Steele dossier. Comey likes to deny he used the Steele dossier but it was his probable cause used in the FISA court. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Michael Isikoff admitted today that nothing in the Steele dossier has been corroborated. Comey’s come out the closet with his hatred toward Trump, something he harbored while he ran the FBI before he was fired May 9, 2017.
Trump called his former personal attorney a “rat,” because he betrayed every known principle of attorney-client privilege to save his own hide after his tax evasion, money laundering, bank and wire fraud were exposed. Comey and his media friends like to mention that Cohen’s plea bargained with Special Counsel Robert Mueller because he lied about a Russian Trump Tower project. Forget about everything else he’s done, Cohen’s criminal problems started-and-ended with Trump, according to the press. Those kinds of lies are exactly why Comey allowed former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe to mishandle Hillary email investigation, knowing she committed obstruction of justice. Comey had no problems letting his agents Peter Strzok and his lover FBI attorney Lisa Page denounce Trump, swearing they’d prevent him from becoming president. Comey likes to blame everyone but himself.
Comey’s Dec. 8 testimony and PR relations with the press shows that he can’t control his hatred for Trump firing him May 9. He’s the first to tell people Trump did it to obstruct justice, never admitting that Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein gave all the reasons for his firing May 10, 2017 for insubordination, violating DOJ and FBI protocol. “Republicans used to understand that the actions of a president matter, the words of a president matter, the rule of law matters and the truth matters,” Comey told the press, essentially calling Trump a liar. No one would listen to Comey except for the fact he’s the media’s darling, leading the charge against Trump. Comey cares about the truth so much, he told the House Intelligence Committee 245 times that he couldn’t remember key parts of the FBI’s Trump Russian collusion investigation. Comey doesn’t like Trump calling Cohen as “rat.”
Comey told the whole story to the media that he doesn’t want to answer questions that incriminate him in wrongdoing. “I find it frustrating to be here answering questions about things that are far less important than the values this country is built on,” Comey told reporters. No, Comey didn’t want to answer questions about why he sought warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials using Hillary’s opposition research AKA “the dossier.” That’s old news to Comey, especially his failure to recall anything pertinent about “the dossier” he used as probable cause to the FISA Court. Democrats and the press would turn against Comey if he flipped and suddenly, denouncing the FBI’s witch hunt against Trump. Comey’s running his mouth to further the cover up of his role as FBI director abusing the national security apparatus to sabotage Trump’s campaign to get Hillary elected in 2016.
