Comey Testimony raises many questions

INVESTIGATIONS NOW TO SPREAD TO DEMOCRATS

COMEY RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT HIMSELF

 

 

 

The Senate hearing yesterday was anti-climatic. After the hype raised by the media it was impossible to live up to expectations.  While less than expected by many, it looks like the testimony is going to lead to more investigations into the 2016 campaign. Comey revealed that he acquiesced to demands by Loretta Lynch to use the label, " Matter" rather than "Investigation" in regards to the Clinton email server investigation. He also revealed that he started keeping detailed notes or memos about his interaction with Trump even before the inauguration, but admitted he never kept notes about his interaction with Clinton, Lynch, or anyone else. He admitted it was because of his opinion as to the nature of Donald Trump. It also opened a window into the jockeying of both Comey and Trump with matters of trust. It appeared neither trusted the other from the beginning. I am sure Comey's performance in the 2016 campaign led to questions of trust by Trump. Comey seemed to believe he would be fired sooner or later. Whether he believed his documentation could be used to secure his position or whether it was a plan from the beginning to put the President in Jeopardy may never be known. We expect to see more questioning of Comey in the future.

 

What we did learn was that Trump, up to the time of Comey's firing, was not under investigation. That the president was concerned about the cloud of the investigation and hoped that Comey could let it be known that Trump was not under investigation. This was known before the hearing. That Trump had put in a good word for Flynn, hoping that his military record would be taken into account with any action taken by the FBI. That on 3 occasions Comey assured Trump that he was not under investigation. That there is still no proof of a collusion of the Trump campaign and the Russians. That Comey leaked his memo's through an intermediary to the New York Times, hoping it would trigger a special council. That Comey believed he was fired because of the Russian investigation. No one asked Comey if he or any of his associates had leaked information at any time. It seems Flynn is under jeopardy due to paperwork errors or omissions concerning his firm lobbying for Turkey and money paid for appearing at an event in Russia.

 

Part of the problem with this whole business, is that shortly after the election, many democrats predicted that Trump would be forced out of office within months. Trump has not only been under siege since he announced his candidacy, but the same assault by the media has continued and intensified. The whole business was started before Obama left office, rules for the dissemination of classified data were changed days before the inauguration. Leaks have been rampant, many coming from the intelligence community, no effort seemed to made by the FBI to investigate leaks. It appears every phone conversation and meeting by Trump is being recorded and made public by someone. Now that it increasingly appears that there was no collusion concerning the campaign and the Russians, it is now shifting to obstruction and you can expect to see them attempt to place Trump under oath to catch him in perjury. He should respectfully decline to testify. Of course, the agenda is to force Trump out of office or at least hamper his ability to pass any meaningful legislation. While this may be applauded by those who hate Trump, were is all this going to go in the future, we can see that there will be no unity of the country, probably in our lifetime. It will probably take a major all out war or economic collapse to possibly unite the country. But I really doubt that even that will do it, but will probably be used to increase political opportunity.

 

I increasingly believe we have seen the best days of America, and that political and economic self interest at all levels of government and the citizenry is what rules and may lead to the end of this experiment in self government.