Top FBI officials were quite worried Comey would appear to be blackmailing Trump
I’m having a feeling Comey could be the first FBI director to go to jail
Top FBI officials were quite worried Comey would appear to be blackmailing Trump
I’m having a feeling Comey could be the first FBI director to go to jail
Senior FBI officials were concerned then director James Comey would appear to be blackmailing then President-elect Trump – using tactics notoriously associated with J.Edgar Hoover – when he attended a fateful Jan. 6, 2017, meeting at which he informed the real estate magnate about allegations he had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker, the bureau’s chief counsel at the time.
“We were quite worried about the Hoover analogies, and we were determined not to have such a disaster happen on our watch,” said Jim Baker, then the FBI’s top lawyer in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery. But he and Comey determined the bureau had an obligation to tell Trump of the uncorroborated allegations because “the press has it; it’s about to come out. You should be alerted to that fact.” -snip
What that says is that the FBI was aware of the potential optics, but still had to tell president elect Trump of the allegations against him because it was their job to do so.
Trump then later as President tried to mob-boss style-pressure Comey into swearing loyalty to him. Lol.
"It just takes so long! That’s the lament from millions of Americans who want to know if the FBI sabotaged the Trump campaign and let Hillary Clinton walk on the email thing.
Will we the people ever find out what actually happened? Well, most likely we’ll learn some of it - but not quickly.
The appointment of U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the FBI’s involvement in the Russia-Collusion allegation is bad news for the bad guys. Durham is tough and honest. He’s not a swamp creature.
But charter members of the swamp like James Comey, Andrew McCabe and others now know a real investigation into their conduct will take place. The FBI, CIA, and the FISA judges will all have to account for what actually took place.
And lying to federal agents is a felony.
So here we go, but not fast. Nope, bureaucrats work methodically not with alacrity. But in the end, we’ll find out most of what happened. I believe that.
Much to the media’s chagrin. "
Bill Oriely.