11-07-2016, 07:40 PM
I read some minor conservative's columnist on the whole brouhaha and he was saying (paraphrasing) liberals who demonized Comey a week ago are now singing his praises.
Naw, we're not. Frankly, he should step down, as bad as he screwed this whole thing up. However, I bring this up because it's the N-teenth example of right-wing projection, which really did hold that Comey was shielding Clinton until he told the world he had more emails to review. Then he was brave and courageous, especially in the sight of a certain presidential candidate:
A week later, not so much:
Naw, we're not. Frankly, he should step down, as bad as he screwed this whole thing up. However, I bring this up because it's the N-teenth example of right-wing projection, which really did hold that Comey was shielding Clinton until he told the world he had more emails to review. Then he was brave and courageous, especially in the sight of a certain presidential candidate:
"What happened today, starting with the FBI, maybe the system will become a little less rigged. Beautiful,"
"I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and DOJ are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake they made," said Trump, who had recently been sounding the alarm on the campaign trail to "investigate the investigation" into Clinton's server.
"The FBI would not have reopened this case at this time unless it were a most egregious offense," Trump argued, even though the FBI has not said it is formally reopening the investigation into Clinton's email server. "I've had a lot of words about the FBI lately, but I give them great credit for having the courage to right this horrible wrong."
A week later, not so much:
Trump said Comey’s decision is proof that things in Washington are “rigged” in Clinton’s favor.
“Right now, she is being protected by a rigged system. It’s a totally rigged system,” Trump told supporters in Michigan. “You can’t review 650,000 new emails in eight days. You can’t do it, folks.”