From the “weather is not covfefe” department
Lately, the political world has gone mad…especially after President Trump exited the Paris Climate Agreement. Conspiracies and subterfuge are being seen everywhere, scapegoats season is open, congressional hearings expected to produce heads on a platter are turning into big fat nothing-burgers, and the left seems unable to come to grips with it all. This cartoon, being bandied about on Twitter pretty well sums it all up.
Thanks to Dr. Patrick Moore for bringing it to my attention:
Source:
http://stiltonsplace.blogspot.com/2017/06/comeys-testy-moaning.html
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I watched the committee hearing, and it appears to me that Comey was probably lying. The Committee came very close to nailing him, but even though the knife was thrust in a couple of times, it was not twisted and plunged deep into his heart.
Comey is a lawyer. He admitted that words are important. Words are particularly important to lawyers and they spend much time arguing on the meaning of a word and the interpretation to be given to a phrase.
Comey admitted that he was unaware of any case where the expression of a hope was considered to be an instruction, still less an instruction amounting to obstruction of an investigation. There is a reason for this, the expression of a hope is not a request or an instruction, and every lawyer would know that. Comey knew that as a lawyer.
Why do we know that Comey knew that it was not an instruction? Because he never acted on it. He neither sought/attempted to pull back on the investigation, nor did he report the conversation to the DOJ. If Comey truly thought that Trump had given him an instruction, Comey was under a legal duty to report this to the DOJ. He did not report it to the DOJ so this means that he was either prepared to act illegally and in breach of his duties, or that he did not take the comment by Trump to amount to an instruction. The latter scenario being the most likely.
So we see the fanciful position where Comey is seeking to dance. He is arguing that he took the comment as an instruction, but did not consider that it amounted to obstruction.
No reasonable lawyer would have taken Trump’s comment as an instruction, since words and their meaning are important to a lawyer and all lawyers well know that the expression of a hope is not a request/instruction, and we also know that Comey did not report the comment to the DOJ further confirming that Comey did not take the comment to be an instruction.
If that is the best that the Democrats can come up with, they are well short of a case for impeachment.
It is well worth having a look at this brief clip:
Here is a link to a blog,that does a lot of work covering and explaining the Comey mess well:
The Last Refuge,
https://theconservativetreehouse.com
Example.
Never Underestimate The Severity of James Comey’s Manipulative Intent…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/06/12/never-underestimate-the-severity-of-james-comeys-manipulative-intent/
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Words are particularly important to lawyers and they spend much time arguing on the meaning of a word and the interpretation to be given to a phrase.
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“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” –Bill Clinton
Jim
Further to my comment above, there is another good clip of Wheelers. She seems quite switched on to me.
Currently, out of sudden, the Brits have much more fun too.
British (ex)chancellor George Osborne confirms the definite existence of a ‘dead woman walking’. (apparently it’s the global warming effect, more research required)
The UK is fast descending into a DINO, ie., a democracy in name only.
It is hard to believe this of a once great nation that created the Mother of Parliaments and the Magna Carta. there are many turning in their graves at this sorry state of affairs.
Cash for votes !
a year ago £300M/week from Johnson & Gove and now Corbyn’s student fees, not that I expect you or anyone else would agree.
Am I the first or only to observe that Comey’s actions, after each Presidential meeting, are consistent with Cindy wasting a wire?
Darned if I could exit a high level meeting then afterwards record verbatim quotes in inverted commas. My memory is excellent, Comey’s might be genius level.
Has anyone asked if Comey was wired? Revisit his evidence to the House with that in mind. To me it fits like a glove.
People entering meetings prepared to secretly record verbatim are often people with an agenda to harm the other party.
Geoff.
Delete ” Cindy wasting a wire”.
Insert “Comey wearing a wire.”
Change virtual keyboard program for this tablet.
Geoff
To the metallurgist, Covfefe is an alloy of 1 part cobalt, one part vanadium and 2 parts iron.
In reality. a mix that it hopeless for any practical application, like much news reporting.
Throw some stuff together and hope it works.
Geoff.
If only Comey’s level if corruption was so funny and obvious.
He’s probably under the threat of being Vince Fostered by the Clinton Cartel.
Comey’s aim was to bring down Trump. But the end result is a lot of people breathing a sigh of relief that he was fired. The man is not stable enough to run an agency even in a lemonade parking lot.
Can somebody remind me how many emails HRC could not find, and how many were subsequently found on the laptop by NYPD? I guess in all this exitement I kinda lost track myself.
Will Sessions testify in session?
Considering how Global Warming is seen as a religion, another good subtitle for that picture would be the infamous “Will no-one rid me of this troublesome priest ?”
Our debased elite are hunting the outsider.
Did Comey think he had leverage on President Trump as long as he didn’t admit to the public
what he admitted in private ? How else can what he did be explained ? He could have deflated the false Trump / Russia gossip but purposely chose not to. Was that in the best interests of the country or Comey ?
Comey revealed himself to be a political operative , passing himself off to be such an oh shucks kind of good ol boy . The some soft sensitive bullied victim act seems to be his go to happy place .
Using a friend to leak information is cowardly . Trump’s only mistake was not firing this guy on day one . No one likes a person that has a pattern of throwing their bosses under the bus . It is just so chicken shit .