Exclusive: Comey will stop short of saying Trump obstructed justice in Flynn probe, source says

The alt-left are sadden by this bit of news. They were hanging all their hopes and dreams on one man. And it seems like this one man isn't going to deliver what the alt-left were hoping for.

LMFAO!

 

This is the expected course. Comey has always been one who sticks with the facts and events as he perceived them, but making a comment about a legal conclusion would stray too far into Robert Mueller's realm.

 

He certainly had no problem doing it in the Hillary investigation.

 

Oh, so we are back to believing 'unnamed sources'? lol

(not that i disagree with the story. Just find it funny that the validity of unname sources seems to shift based on which side benefits)

 

This will be the first leg in the Russian Conspiracy to break. Prepare for a lot of neoMarxist tears this weekend

 

1. Comey sticks with the facts, even when he knows those 'facts' are fake?

2. Making a legal conclusion would start too far?

Sorry to break it to you, but he has zero credibility with me anymore. And I was one of those that used to think he was a good guy that just handled a bad situation poorly.

 

So he'll expose th president as a liar but not accuse him of crimes. Lol the things the trumpeters view as a win lately

 

I don't see any on the left denying this based on the source....

 

It's pretty funny how many have been invented on both sides only to hear everybody using the defense of "but they did it first/more/meaner". With this story it is pretty clear that it is at least 2 or 3 to 1 Democratic stories over Republican, but everybody does it and the ratio tends to be higher for the attacking party.

If the media took the proper course and simply gave us facts only, as they came out, as well as updates for us to sift through it would be plenty enough coverage. Instead, a lot of the media is literally using 80% of their time to cover random things that have no factual basis.

I still don't think they are going to find a thing to prove collusion and this will all just be a huge waste of time and money.

However, like I have been saying over and over and over and .... over, we will see.

 

No, actually ABC is just covering their behinds.

So, by creating this #fakenews unnamed source saying Comey is going to stop short of accusing Trump of obstruction, ABC is essentially admitting that there wasn't anything there in the first place.

 

All politicians are liars, Bush, Obama, Clinton (both), Trump, whats the difference.

But saying he is a Russian Manchurian Candidate is MUCH different and should be treated as so.

 

Well if it's not a fact I wouldn't want Comey to claim it. Interested to see where the whole thing goes regardless.

 

What fake facts are you talking about? Are you talking about those "tapes" that Trump has of the Comey conversation?

 

Oh yeah, I didn't believe Comey was going to drop any bombshells like was reported, as if he had any incriminating evidence it would already be in the channels. I just find it funny how 'fake news from unnamed sources' became such a RW meme over the last few months and now suddenly they are 'ok'.

Again, I didn't dispute the validity of the story itself, as I believe there was nothing there to begin with. But I find it funny that you (someone I believe I've seen rail against 'unnamed sources') suddenly be ok with a story from one. That's all.

 

Same, although I have a feeling nothing distinctive will come of it in the courts, thus leaving the two parties to still be fighting each other through 2020 and perhaps even longer.

 

At this point you are really surprised by a partisan of any "side" to be hypocritical?

Come on man, I think higher of you than that

 

It was his job, at that time, to make a recommendation on whether to recommend prosecution.

That is not his job, currently, and to make such a recommendation as a civilian (former FBI director) could influence, improperly, the investigation.

 

Looks like the Hammer called it.


Krauthammer: If Comey Said There Was Obstruction, He Would Be Indicting Himself; Hearing Will Be A "Bust".....

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: [James Comey] has a history and a talent for navigating, what he says, his remarks, his status, his own history in a way that minimizes its impact. You can interpret everything he did last year as a way for the director of the FBI caught in a unique situation with a candidate who's under investigation, a campaign under investigation, a unique situation that put him in the spotlight as a way to avoid determining the election. I think he failed but I think that was his motive.

Here there is one question, did the president obstruct justice? That's what everybody is waiting for. I don't think there's anything of great interest other than that. And his answer I think is going to be obvious. He will navigate to a point where he says, 'Well, there might've been some pressure but it's not obstruction.' Why? Because if it were obstruction, then he is indicting himself. For not resigning, for not making a statement, for not bringing it out in the open.

So he can't say it's obstruction which is what everybody who wants to see Trump destroyed is waiting to hear. So what we will hear is something navigating in between and saying well, it wasn't really pressure, he was speaking on behalf of an associate, a friend. It could be interpreted in various ways. That's what I think is going to happen and that's why I think it's going to be a bust.....snip~

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...indicting_himself_hearing_will_be_a_bust.html

 

The fake document that was used in the Hillary investigation. The one he k we was fake as he was reading it

 

That was never going to come out on Thursday

 

Comey will simply answer the questions and let others decide whether there was any interference.

 

While it might seem ironic, the unnamed source is being used in a story by a media outlet often unfriendly to President Trump. These are the kinds of stories the left usually sits on.

 

Do you know that the fake document to which you are referencing is the one that claimed Loretta Lynch was compromised?

 

And I haven't seen any on the left calling this story fake. Just trumpettes touting its veracity despite the fact that it comes from an anonymous source...

 

He went beyond his job. It's one of the reasons he's on the street.