Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
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It will be our "great honor" to fire crimeboss Trump and relegate his kakistocracy to the slimeheap of history.
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Only someone divorced from truthfulness and integrity would call another person a "slime ball."
It's a sad time in our country's history when ad hominem attacks are the standard response from this administration, and politicians in general.
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Translation Trump:"I am an untruthful slimeball".
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Thank you, Republicans, for allowing Donald Trump to take over your party. Lincoln weeps as he hears Trump calls another officer of the government Lincoln fought so hard to preserve, "an untruthful slime ball."
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Using Trump's middle school language - "Takes one to know one"
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Mr. Comey will “be forever known as a disgraced partisan hack that broke his sacred trust with the president of the United States.” What sacred trust? Isn't Comey's duty to uphold the US Constitution and its laws? It is the Liar in Chief who daily betrays his duty to the constitution, its laws and its people. Huckabee's statements would be funny if the Liar in Chief was not occupying the oval office.
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Uh huh...and “David Dennison” is an upstanding guy.
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Hmmm... which one to believe?
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Ah, the projection at work here...
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yall voted for this person knowing full well he is 1. unqualified; 2. a bully; 3. a liar; 4. protector of the rich; 5. ego driven; 6. a bigot. Is this truly what a representation of what America is? live with your convictions. go write your representative if they arent quitting or retiring from govt service because of him and have Trump congratulated for being the American that he is.
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Yep, a mob boss facing RICO charges would use the words "untruthful slime ball" to describe anyone who rejects taking "The Don's" oath of loyalty.
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Come on, people. How about a bit more respectful language all around?? What would all the mothers be saying--"Go wash your mouth/mouths with soap!"
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Is the swamp drained yet?
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Sometimes, I do wonder if all the Trump supporters are smoking marijuana joints rolled with Trump's used underwear.
No matter how much a person can love conservatism and hate liberalism in terms of politics and ideology, how can ANYONE stand this guy?
Exactly which of Jesus Christ's values or even Lincoln's values does Trump embody? Ok, that's setting the bar too high. Which of a single human value of an average Joe or Jane does Trump embody?
Has ANYONE (including Trump's family members) ever seen Trump say "I'm sorry, I was wrong?"
Has anyone EVER seen Trump smile?
All the Trump voter's out there, I have a question for you: Would you trust Trump enough to send your pretty mom, sister, daughter, fiance or wife for a dinner date with Trump? Please do yourself a huge favor and next time, elect a monkey or a drunk porcupine from your local zoo as your President. I know these innocent animals have no clue to be President of the US, neither does Trump but atleast those animals won't damage the moral fabric and economic foundation of America unlike Trump.
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Simply put, I trust most people over Trump - a proven serial liar.
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The depth of Trump’s intellect :) waiting for the Tillerson and McAster tomes!
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Anyone hear "Biggest defamation case in history" rattling its chains?
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Comey flatters Trump by comparing him to a Mafia Don. He might be, on a good day, Sonny. But never Don Vito or Michael. And there are too many Fredos and Carlo Ritzis. Though Sarah Sanders could be Luca Brazzi.
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All I can say is, VOTE!!
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I believe this is known as "projection."
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Comey thought he was writing an October footnote to a Clinton election. Instead he wrote the headline that got Trump elected.
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It takes ones to know one!
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I still find it difficult to believe that it is the POTUS using such words and engaging in such dialogue and not some high-school greaseball . . .
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I can't believe it. I just can't. "Untruthful slime ball?" This man is 71 years old and president of the United States. PRESIDENT. He's PRESIDENT and talks like this. Unbelievable - Trump behaves like a 7 year-old on a school playground, and even then, in all the years I taught 4th grade, I never heard such as that. What is going to happen to our country?
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"Untruthful slime ball."
Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.
Sound like anyone we know? Add psychological projection to the very long list of mental, psychological and/or character disorders affecting our "president."
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Trump calls Comey a "lying slime ball". He apparently doesn't know what "projection" is. How consistently his insults apply most truly to himself. When do the Evangelicals admit that there's not much that is "Christian" about this man. Or "American" (As in respect for the rule of law and the Constitution.) Trump is degrading both of these groups before the eyes of the world! As a member of both, I am truly ashamed that he says he represents us.
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To anyone having incriminating information on Trump, do the world a favor, don't sell it to the Inquirer.
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Like so many of Trump's tweets, the proper response to a tweet calling James Comey an "untruthful slime ball" is learned on the third grade's playground: "I know you are, but what am I?" or "It takes one to know one!" Comey can use either one of these responses and be entirely accurate, and truthful.
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The Democrats had terrible things to say about Comey and called for his immediate firing when they blamed him for Hillary's lost election. Now the hypocrites cant sing his praises enough...
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If you were to meet me at, let's say, a dinner, and I referred to any person as an
"untruthful slime ball", I assume that you would not seek to pursue any relationship with me. Yet we have become so accustomed to this completely immature and unpolished language in our president that we hardly notice it anymore. Do we have absolutely no bottom line at all in our expectation of our national leader?
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How sophomoric--from someone who had to pay people to take his tests in sophomore year an afterwards.
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Is it just me or is this the "I know you are but what am I' grade school presidency?
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The National Republican Party has ruined itself by standing behind Trump. What fools or “criminals?” these individuals are, for like Judas, they have betrayed Christ for a few shekels and some dishonest votes.
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And in the end just another hyped up book tour. This clown has done right by no one. He needs to go away.
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These words today from a man, whose own lies filled a newspaper page not too long ago. But since then has lied at least another page full. And the RNC, what do they do, why they step in line and lie with him also. Back up the most immoral president this country ever had. Oh , yes November will come and they will one by one pay the piper. Instead of working for us, they collude with the Trump clan. I say good riddance!
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What Trump said about Comey’s book and it’s author is more than the ravings of a demented mind for it indicates there are certain truths in that book or the president would not be acting out in this crazy inappropriate way. Firing Comey, the highly respected FBI head, was a mistake that set the ball rolling against Trump. I feel no pity whatever for Him but only hope he either resigns is impeached or goes to prison.
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"It takes one to know one" --Except that James Comey isn't "one."
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Trump was not man enough to fire Comey, Price nor Tillerson to their face. Trump is no Putiin, Putin hospitalizes, iimprisons and kills his foes. No one ever suffered those fates from a Trump twitter nor tongue lashing slur.
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Lordy, I can't wait to read Comey's book.
Just to mess with DJT's latest dumb obsession, I'll order it from Amazon.
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Donald Trump shows all signs of being a petty tyrant. The only way to get him to say something good about you is if you allow him to use you, profit from you and be his doormat.
So that means that James Comes has character.
Meanwhile watch all the cowards in the legislature feel their souls and hearts to the highest bidder and do nothing to protect the citizens or our democracy.
The enemy is on the inside. His name is Donald Trump. He shos all signs of being a psychopath, a rare a biologically distinct kind of creature, his neural network so simple, he is completely at the mercy of his lower nature habits. He has no access to higher ordered thinking. He can not plan, organize or create. He can only persuade, attack and undermine. The word psychopath means thoughts, feelings and beliefs that are destructive. He is part of a cancer that has spread from our legislative branch and is spreading throughout the executive branch and judiciary.
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You know what they say on the playground, “It takes one to know one!”
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Just like Watergate, one or more good cops can bring down a
presidency!
Who's the liar? Well we have a scientific method: put Director Comey and
Trump to a lie detector test. Wait, Wait, don't Tell me. You already know.
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a sitting president talking trash about a former leader of the fbi -- priceless.
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The Orange Hairball is having another hissy fit,calling Comey 'an untruthful slime ball' (I can't help wondering what a truthful slime ball would be). 'Untruthful slime ball' sounds like an apt description of the so-called president.
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If I were James Comey, I would just come back with the "I know you are, but what am I" defence.
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Projection by Mr. Trump. We also find revealed the Republicans' main strategy: when faced with facts, character-assassinate. Hey, how's your ongoing obstruction of justice working for you?
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I don't think Mr. Trump is what Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton had in mind. There is something deeply sad and deeply alarming about a man absurd enough to post those comments on Twitter. Mr. Comey is not a slime ball. Mr Trump and company fit that definition.
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Obviously Mr. Comey has important revelations. However, his smugness about whether or not his wife considers the possibility of her husband entertaining incontinent prostitutes is not one of them. Irrelevant and sounds like payback.
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Why does the NYT even glorify these horrible tweets by our President? We should all be ashamed of this guy. Why give more publicity to his shameful actions and multiply our shame?
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The FBI and the GOP are not far apart, despite this personal feud. Working people have no dog in this fight.
Comey and Trump are both part of the same anti-Bill of Rights coalition that promotes and protects the interests of the American ruling class.
A pox on both their houses.
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In 63 years on earth I have never heard a President of the United States publicly call anyone a slime ball. I hope I never do again either. What Trump seems to miss is that by using such childish and bullying language, he is disrespecting the office of the President as well as the American people.
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Why is it that SHS / the Trump administration never actually answers charges. Instead, they take the low road and just attack back. It is disheartening.
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Trump's head is going to explode while watching the interview on ABC tomorrow night. I wish I were a fly on his wall. Twitter storm coming. Or in Palinesque or Trumpian speak, a-comin'.
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The problem is, no-one who actually voted for Trump would be surprised by any of this, or any forthcoming scandalous revelations for that matter. After the Access Hollywood tapes became public, there could be no question as to the fundamental character of Republican candidate for President. Every Evangelical, nativist, racist, or general Republican "deplorable" who supported him knew full well what they were voting for. They may not have much respect for the man, but they wholeheartedly embraced what the man was saying.
Therefore, this is all preaching to the choir. It may fire up the "resistance", bit it won't change support from his "base" one iota. And if this empty-vessel demagogue ultimately disappoints them, it won't stop them electing another, given the chance.
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Tax cuts. Dismantling of the ‘administrative state.’ Republicans kept their eyes on ‘their’ prize. Nothing else matters to them.
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The smear campaign by Mr. Trump and the RNC is a tactic to taint any jury pool should the various investigations come to trial.
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Comey's confession of self-doubt, maybe even fear, about whether he may have interfered with the election via his statement that the FBI would consider the late-incoming Clinton emails still is a hallmark of integrity and uprightness seldom seen in Washington DC.
Cable news has been all over yesterday's odd talking point that Comey has hurt his reputation, but as usual, I think they have fallen into group-think, and turned off their brains, in their haste to come up with a BREAKING NEWS crawl. They should have done a little more analyzing of the book, and a little less skimming.
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Republican partisans couldn't have it better: A man despised by democrats stands up to the president, calls him a liar, criticizes his appearance, and gets ready for a long book tour to talk about all of it. Comey won't convince a single republican, but will feed their hatred. Democrats will like republicans even less. When there isn't a war out there we can win, we stoke up the fires of a domestic battle. Laissez le mal temps roulez. Let the bad times roll.
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Trump's propensity for name calling is so unseemly and childish. Makes me weep for more adult leadership.
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The same old behavior from a predictable "name calling" president. The same old twitter response. The same old posturing and appealing to his base. The pattern is such that an AI program can now predict his next tweet for a given situation. SAD!!
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Who you gonna trust ...
a former FBI director with 25+ years in law enforcement
or
the founder of Trump University?
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The President's squeals of desperation are as predictable as old Big Ben.
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This man was born without an irony gene
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The irony of the world's greatest slimeball issuing insults to anybody is almost too painful to bear. And this is supposed to be a president? Make me laugh.
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Trump is making me tired, really exhausted from all his incompetence and attempts to distract.
Really, did you ever think that the president of the US would use this type of language? I don't know how parents explain it to young children.
Do you recall when a president spoke well, eloquently? Obama, Reagan, JFK. Trump has taken the position to the gutter with his drivel.
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If I were Comey, I would considered a badge of honor to be called "Untruthful Slime Ball" by Trump. Trump is such a liar that the only people who would believe what Trump says are either very naive or are Republicans trying to save their own necks and protect their power.
The fact that the RNC is attacking Comey, should give any thinking person pause in ever believing anything the RNC has to say about any subject.
And the DNC should stop blaming Comey for Hilary's defeat. They forget that it was the Electoral College that gave the Presidency to Trump. Hilary won the popular vote.
The Democrats should be rejoicing that Comey wrote his book. It will be very helpful to them in November and in the next Presidential election.
The RNC looks extremely foolish backing Trump on his blasting of Comey. Can't Trump fight for himself. He is a first class bully, right. He knows how to punch below the belt. Trump does not need any help.
The Republicans have lost all credibility at this point
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A case of the soiled kettle Trump calling the Comey pot black.
Though I have zero affection for self serving Comey, who never should have released his "Hillary letter" just prior to the election. AND then not mention in it that the Trump campaign was a target as was Russian hacking.
Comey's letter may well have been the difference between having HRC as president instead of the lying con man we now have as 45. So no, I won't be waiting on line to buy a signed copy.
OTH, anyone or anything which can help rid US of Trump AND Pence AND McCONnell, I'm all in favor of. Then there's the Trumpy twittering after Fox & Fiends starts their bloviating.
Guess I'll enjoy a slice of deep dish apple pie while contemplating their looney deep state conspiracy theories..
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Oh I get it. Trump is trying to Tweet his way into an insanity defense---pretty crafty. I'm now totally convinced that the rumor about Trump and two prostitutes in Russia is false---there were actually three prostitutes.
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A POTUS who can't just shut up and let his fixers throw the mud at Comey is an unfit POTUS...sometimes NONREACTIVITY is the best policy.
I mean, Trump's got to know that by commenting on the Comey book, he helps Comey sell more books.
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Comey's 'handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton Case' was a big factor in Trump winning the Oval Office. For that he owes him a debt of gratitude.
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All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing. To paraphrase sir Edmund Burke
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Are we tired of winning yet?
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There is no question our President' is skilled at producing, a forceful, yet eloquent, turn of phrase: "untruthful slime ball". I can't recall another head-of-government or chief of state, past or present, who could reach to such depths to characterize a former senior subordinate. Of course, it could represent a sub-conscious self-reflection.
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This unworthy occupant of a now disgraced office, blathering like a child, dares to call anyone else -- let alone a straight arrow career G-man like Comey -- a liar? As for the child's epithet of "slimeball" (spoke like a true statesman!!), who but the most oblivious FOX News watcher would fail to see the irony of this tirade being unleashed by a self-serving, self-dealing, corrupt grifter and con man?
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Trump, the lonely little boy on the playground, calling people names. SAD.
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If a proven serial liar lies about facts, then surely the obverse of those lies are the truth.
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Have you all read Comey's Book???
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For what it's worth, Hillary Clinton was not deprived of the presidency by James Comey. Or Wikileaks or Russian hate bots. She handled that feat on her own aided in part by the scurrilous Trump, who labeled her a crook in a textbook demonstration of the transference he is so adept at.
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Doesn't anyone find it disturbing that he knew the Russia dossier to be fake and funded by the political opponents of the president and yet refused to acknowledge that publicly? He knew it wasn''t even worth investigating and yet remained silent while every liberal newspaper and TV station screamed "Russia! Russia!! Russia!!!" every day for months on end. To me, that looks like he was trying to keep some sort of leverage over Mr Trump, in a very creepy J Edgar Hoover kind of way. I don't think this man is quite the boy scout he is made up to be by Trump opponents.
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Trump and his pals spent taxpayer dollars to put out PR campaign's to undermine Comey, Muller, the FBI, the DOJ and anyone who goes against our dear leader. Does not congress find this odd, Does not the GOP, who spent 8 years investigating every breath President Obama took, have anything to say?
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Trump must have been looking in the mirror when he said that.
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If trump says it's a lie, it must be true.
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The outraged innocence on the part of Democrats and other #NeverTrumpers of his purported dealings with Comey would amuse me if my generation hadn’t seen it all, again and again, since LBJ’s time.
The only real difference is that Trump, never having spent time in government before his election, hadn’t spent decades spinning events behind a well-manicured hedge of propriety consisting of carefully chosen toadies who knew how to serve the boss with extreme loyalty and discretion. Thus, we hear of an FBI director astounded that he is physically present when spinning is attempted, and even with an attempt to co-opt his active participation, because he was not one of those well-cultivated toadies. Naturally, we never saw the actual machinations by which Hillary’s machine fuzzed the embarrassing truth about Benghazi until the 2012 election had passed and it could no longer derail Obama’s re-election.
Trump is like a Mafia boss? Obviously, Mr. Comey is too young to have had dealings with LBJ and Nixon, not to mention Joe Kennedy, Sr. All of THEM could more or less rely on a J. Edgar Hoover who HAD been cultivated for decades and who had not one drop of innocence in him.
Comey should have been fired by Obama for lapses of judgment during the election that interfered in it far more directly and decisively than anything the Russians did. And Trump, even at 70, learned a valuable lesson: don’t assume loyalty from a functionary who hasn’t been a member of your entourage for years.
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Ms. Conway said on Friday. “After all, he was fired.” ... she neglected to mention the reason for that firing: Comey's refusal to kiss the boss's ring and go easy on Trump's pal (lying) Mike Flynn.
How is it that all of Trump's adversaries are liars and the only people in the country who tell the truth is Mr. Trump and his lackeys? It boggles the mind.
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Trump is slandering the very person who got him elected. How ungrateful!
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Yes, Kellyanne, that respected spokesperson is drafted once again to defend her boss. The Republicans are setting up a "Lynin'Comey Website". It's laughable! No amount of snarky, snide comments about Comey from the Fox news "commentators" will make Comey look bad or Trump look good. Go for it, Southern District of NY and bring these crooks down!
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Wow! The President of the United States (and the RNC) is dragging the FBI and Justice System of the country he is supposed to be leading into his filthy swamp to same his hideous reputation! This is far more awful than anything I imagined upon his election -- and I have a very active imagination. It's getting to be too much to bear.
5
But then, he started attacking Syria, killing more people to distract from all his inadequacies. This is not America.
4
Trump's presidency cannot be over soon enough.
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Trump said Comey was a proven liar and that’s a blatant lie. No proof of such ever existed. Trump’s proof is delusional and exists in his warped mind. Quite the opposite is true. Comey is esteemed and respected by all his colleagues. Trump made a terrible mistake firing Comey—possibly an obstruction of justice that the fascist-leaning, corrupt Republican Congress chooses to ignore.
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Disgraceful and appalling. Our so-called president is so far beyond the pale that I cannot think how his corrupt reign continues. And yet it does.
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Is he a leaker, or a liar? Because he can't be BOTH can he?
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Maybe Trump is so delusional that he was actually looking in the mirror and thinking he was watching fox and friendz when he tweeted.
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"“We find that Mr. Comey has a revisionist view of history and seems like a disgruntled ex-employee,” Ms. Conway said. “After all, he was fired.”"
Leave it to Conway to use the stupidest, simplest argument. Of course "the Base" will swallow it whole.
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So much fun!
Trump described himself: "slimeball."
The President of the United States of America is so childish, so immature, so utterly juvenile, one wonders how any person with an IQ above a 6-pack can support him, believe a word he manages to utter or tweet, or consider him anything but a very sore loser.
But then we pause to recall America has many Evangelical Christians. And we have part of our answer. Faith in Trump trumps Christianity.
What a waste that persons with first-grade (not first-rate!) thinking capacity may graduate high school, college and the Junkiversity of Fox and Fools. These geniuses go on to be elected congressmen and senators in red states.
They are proof that education cannot be the answer to all problems. And this is also part of our answer.
The final piece to the puzzle is that the Republican base hates the federal government. They hate taxes. Oh my god do they hate taxes! They also hate non-white descendants of the Confederacy and everyone not from Norway.
Trump is their new savior, general, standard of ethics and morality. Jesus was such a wimp compared to the mighty Trump!
Who continues to make us laugh (and cry) as he has turned the American Presidency into The Great American Clown.
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Boy that's rich. Trump calling Comey a liar. Comey admittedly made some mistakes along the way but he's not a liar. Trump lies on a daily basis. Sweet Lord please end this soon!
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DJT tweets Comey as liar and leaker, on same day he pardons Scooter Libby who was convicted as liar and leaker.
Go figure.
At what point do DJT’s tweets become irrelevant?
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It's eras like these that make me wish I was a Brit.
4
Mr. Trump:
"Have You Left No Sense of Decency?"
(taken from Mr Welch, talking to Mr. McCarthy).
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It seems that when Trump twitters he is looking in a mirror —because they all read like he’s describing himself.
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Here we have two men describing each other in nasty terms such as "untruthful slime ball". A mountain of evidence suggests that this term is indeed an accurate description of one of the men. It isn't as clear about the other..
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“untruthful slime ball” and a proven LEAKER & LIAR.”
The irony of Trump's tweets never ceases to amaze in that they are always far more applicable to himself than to the person he's attacking. Everyone knows this, it's only that those who support him choose to ignore it because of some perceived personal advantage from stumping for Trump, or being a Trump Chump.
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Ah the eloquence. Benjamin Franklin would be jealous at how articulate Trump is. Trump says everyone agrees that Comey handled the Clinton situation poorly but without his actions America would not be great again.
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Someone needed to tell citizens who they have elected to safeguard and protect them . Comey did his part to tell who this person is . Let’s take it on face of it and analyze . Citizens need to understand how powerful and consequential their voting is . US has demonstrated time and again they are no more sophisticated then any other nation when they elect their leaders in every level of elections. Optics are election winners . Fake news and gossip mills winning elections. We have a president who started with Birther fake news and built a news mill with lot of energy and sophistication . Let’s all wait for a HBR case study on marketing and leadership styles of current president . James Comey book will certainly help who ever writing the case study on leadership and sucker mindset of a hypochondriac leader . Most advanced nation let a crook fire chief of FBI with out any ramifications. Shame on senate . Every senator owes this nation much more then holding on their seats and walking party lines . Senators you have 6 years ! Be the people you are supposed to be as constitution designed . You are safe for 6 years , prove your mojo.
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As a kid, I grew up listening to the words of John F. Kennedy; this was a time when the presidenet was not only held to higher standards but also generally lived up to those.
JFK said wise things:
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.
and
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
It was inspiring for kids and adults alike regardless of your politics.
And kids now are growing up with an unethical president who lies daily and name calls in epic ways. Slimeball indeed.
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A horrid man to be our country's representative to the world.
Trump sounds like he has something to hide?
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He won the election for Trump. Now he's personally cashing in on the Trump brand. And calling it "A Higher Loyalty"? Saint Comey, is it now? New Darling of the left? And there's nothing in the book of any interest other than some really bad prose. I mean who says "untethered to truth"? It's such a bad misuse of the "untethered" word. As opposed to what exactly - "tethered" to truth?
Bah.
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No. Hillary lost to Trump. That takes some doing. Don't sell her short - credit where credit is due.
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The time to expend more words on condemnation of this man is long past. Nothing will ever change my perception of him now.
All focus should now be on action in preparation for November. Any elected official who has failed to take a stand against this corruption, incompetence, and sometimes plain evil must pay. With their political life. Country before party.
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I blame it all on the Kardashians. They have managed to dumb down our country so much that millions of people thought it was just fine to hire a foul-mouthed, illiterate, immoral, lawless, and unethical celebrity as their president. Comey is one of a dying breed, unfortunately. As much as he has his own issues with a wee bit of narcissism, it’s not the evil kind like Trump’s. Thanks, Kim.
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I just listened to the opening of today's WHouse press briefing whereat SH Sanders gave prepared remarks about Comey. You'll have to listen for yourselves folks. Quoting it here couldn't possibly do it justice. One thing is abundantly clear and terrifying: this Administration is going to burn the justice system to the ground to protect Donald J. Trump. We're only scratching the surface of the evil these trump people have and are willing to do. It's ghastly. No sleep, again, tonight!
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I thought this form of juicy political excitement was for the Third World corrupt from every angle leaders/politicians. Well, what do you know.
Russia in comparison looks stellar.
6
Well the disgraceful, incompetent, and illegitimate Republican party have now crossed the Rubicon. They are in with Trump lock, stock, and barrel now. Can never again claim he isn't one of them, since they're now backing him to the hilt.
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Is it not treason to knowingly collaborate with someone who deliberately attacks, undermines and unravels governmental surveillance of known adversaries and enemies of our Nation? Is Trump not guilty of treason as are those who currently disguise and evade scrutiny of such conduct?
5
The Trump presidency makes such a fabulous soap opera! Too bad it is actually a documentary.
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Do we even know, how much Mr. Comey has done for this country? First he saved the US from falling to Hillary Clinton. He must have identified Hillary as the greater and more dangerous of two evils that I believe she was and acted, when he felt it was time to do so. And now he is whipping Trump into a self destructive frenzy. Can’t wait to see how Trump entangles himself further and further the harder he tries to wriggle himself out from his own web of lies and crimes. Comey has made this web just a little stickier for Trump.
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Comey's action in implying just before the election that Clinton was the subject of a new investigation was grossly unethical.
If that's your idea of how to win an election you have little respect for democracy.
3
And the RNC has gone over so completely that they spend their resources trying to discredit a law and order guy in the service of a ....
4
Comey's actions speak for themselves: cunning, partisan, self-serving, cowardly, and taken with the welfare of the American people as an insignificant consideration on the swamp chessboard.
Let him justify his behavior. I cannot.
2
Comey does seem slimy, totally self interested, journaling everything that might give him the upper hand with implicit blackmail at the core. However, self serving though, Trump has no defense against a foe who is thorough, expert in the law and strategic. How fitting that good old hard work and cunning beat out the bully and liar that Trump loves to be.
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We've had more than our share of bad Presidents in recent years.
Your opinions may vary; but my nominations are Nixon, Carter, W, and--of course--Trump.
But can you imagine ANY of the others calling someone a "Slime Ball"? That sounds like a ten-year-old, which is the level of Trump's typical dialogue.
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I take exception to Carter being on your list. He may not have been the most effective President, but a thoroughly decent human being.
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I fail to understand all these oligarchs who crave and pursue more stolen wealth in such a criminal and compulsive manner. It's not like they could possibly eat that many more steak dinners each day.
1
And the GOP now has a website slamming Comey. When will the grown ups take over again? I'm extraordinarily tired of the bickering, name calling and mud slinging. I havent see such activity since I graduated from grade school.
6
I fell asleep driving and totaled my vehicle. When I woke up, I was high and wide, as a cowboy would describe a horse trying to throw him. I escaped injury to myself and others. But I could as easily be facing vehicular homicide.
May our nation and other peoples be so fortunate for our careless inattention.
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Without going to personal attacks, we know that Comey skirted procedure to let Hillary off the hook sans grand jury or normal process. He has admitted he wanted to "sanitize" her presidency through his actions. Comey's observations of the President's hand size and tan lines speak to Comey's gravitas and professional demeanor.
No American can feel at ease with a politicized FBI.
3
Let Hillary off the hook?
He may have cost her the election.
Some favor.
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In reply to Kelly Anne Conway, may I say that it was Director Comey’s great honor to be fired by Trump.
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Mr. Trump calling someone a liar: Is that the height of hypocrisy? Undiluted projection?
Extremely interesting. Beyond pathetic. This is the president of the U.S., trash-talking like an insecure high school student. Another day, another embarrassment for America thanks to DJT and the Republicans.
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I believe Trump needs to be removed from office as soon as pissible. I also believe it is highly unethical that a former FBI Director can write a book about actions of a sitting President that may warrant that President being impeached prior to any such actions.
I recognize the country is in a high stakes poker game, but there has to be a better way of handling this than having a former FBI Director getting rich ftom information that he was privy to before there were any charges made, let alone a court of law coming down with a guilty verdict.
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I don't like Cpmey.
But it's absurd to claim that it is "unethical" for someone to write about what he knows from having been there.
On the contrary, it's a duty to inform people about things that may adversely affect their lives.
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For 448 days we have listened to this childish bully wannabe spout off with his ridiculous tweets. What a tremendous contradiction to his predecessors, even the least eloquent or most incompetent of whom never came close to embarrassing the office as Mr. Trump is doing. And Trump does it daily - every day with him is a new low for our country.
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Whom to believe? Comey’s depiction of Trump matches Trump’s style and character. Trump’s description of Comey, sleezeball, nutjob, also matches Trump’s style and character. I’ll put my faith in Comey based on his contemporaneous notes, past courage, and integrity. I don’t agree with how Comey handled the HRC investigation, but truthfulness isn’t an issue for Comey; it is for Trump.
Trump has every motive for lying. Comey doesn’t, and he isn’t a politician. Trump has stated that he isn’t a politician either, yet he fits the profile of a highly biased one. He just lacks tact and subtlety.
It’s an easy call for me to make about who is telling the truth.
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"We made it through McCarthyism, and a civil war. But I certainly do hope we learn from this mistake in the White House. Candidates in the future should have experience in governance, and a work history demonstrating their commitment to helping all Americans."
Unfortunately there can be no law to limit the power or stupidity of the voters or candidates. We (with the help of American oligarchs and Vladimir Putin) put Trump in office.
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It goes without saying...it takes one to know one. However, regardless of the relative degree of sliminess between Trump and his tormentor, Comey did a disservice to the quest for truth and justice in the Mueller investigation. Comey is a critical witness, and the book has provided fertile grounds to attack his credibility and motives. By admitting that Trump's behavior may be questionable but not criminal Comey is further admitting that he did not feel that Trump was obstructing justice when he asked Comey to go easy on Flynn.
Although we Trump haters enjoy his getting slimmed, Comey's book obstructs the quest for his just demise.
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And all the while Trump is ordering bombs to be dropped on Syrians he's tweeting insults at a guy he fired months ago. No pics of Trump in the "Sit Room" soberly mulling over the potential for mission creep (i.e. Iraq) or even WWIII? Nope, he's tweeting to Russia to "get ready." Perhaps because the Steele Dossier is mostly if not completely accurate.
The Trump administration is a clear and present danger to the safety and security of the US.
Trump doesn't take anything seriously but personal attacks. He is not a war-time Commander-in-Chief.
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I admire Comey and have no problem with his pronouncements about Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Trump . They caused their own problems with unethical behavior . Our government would be much healthier w/ more men and women of Mr. Comey's character .
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We can't talk about Trump as "Presidential" -- and give him cover when he's clearly an insane, unhinged bully. I've seen this kind of mental illness before; the bully who demeans and verbally assaults the very people who have truly earned their respect and status in life. This is Trump's way--to denigrate and attack the truly principled and adult leaders he will never be.
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I have no love for Comey who inexplicably injected himself into the presidential campaign at the very end and may have given us Trump. He should have investigated whether those additional email were relevant before saying anything. True however , Hillary created this problem for herself and never should have put herself in this position. She knew she'd be running for president so why even set up a private server in the basement of her house. The optic, especially given her history and reputation were boneheaded.
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Can you even imagine how this would play out, if these two were women? The response would be toxic. Its an example of ridiculous behavior that is tolerated in men, and not in women.
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Comey will only further his reputation's decline by engaging in this battle with Trump. No one comes away from one of these fights without having demeaned himself.
Corey's redemption efforts have been seriously undermined by his own behavior; although he would like nothing more than to blame Trump for his fall.
What a great recommendation - and free even!
Mr. Trump is now feeling the real 'heat' of what the deep state apparatus of the country looks like, how far-reaching and relentless its pursuit of even powerful elected officials who disagree with its goals in the running the world as it deems fit. Even if it meant bankrupting the country to engage in unending wars everywhere on the planet, especially, beating up poor, backwater countries back to the stone-age in trying to hold on to its temporary lone 'superpower' status.
As Chuck Shumer let it slip in his interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, "they have six ways until Sunday to strike back at you". It should be a warning to Mr.Trump to resign from office, save his life and his family he cares about and let the deep state / military-industrial complex run the country with their choicest picks for office. As the next mid-term elections will guarantee that more Intel officials running for office will 'win' the mid-term elections and set the motions for Mr.Trump's impeachment. In many ways 2016 elections will be remembered as the last true people's elections where the votes were real. Just like how the shock of Vietnam changed the US media into becoming mouthpieces for the MIL, 2016 elections will render all future US elections rigged.
People of this country and around the world should hope that a rival superpower should rise soon enough and save this planet from complete annihilation with the unilateral, catastrophic actions of the 'Warfare states of America'.
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Ms. Huckabee Sanders apparently fails to understand that the FBI's loyalty is supposedly owed to the nation as a whole, not the incumbent president. But such is the ignorance engendered by inattention during civics classes.
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Comey's Wiki page is already longer than that of, say, Paul Ryan. Yes, he will be recorded in the history as a man who destroyed both candidates of the 2016 election (Clinton already and Trump probably).
So Comey did hit a raw nerve of Trump?
It just goes to say that the saying "Friend - Foe - Fellow Party Member" has deep meaning.
As long as the common goal and the interwoven dependencies are working, there is love bound by a common enemy outside the party.
But as soon as things turn sour, having a deadly enemy is a walk in the park when compared to what we see between Trump and Comey.
After all, friend in the same party do know exactly where to hit in order to create maximum pain.
And that is just what Comey does.
Makes you wonder how long Mueller will stay in office and what the title of his book will be?
And how many countries will get bombed in order to ease Trumps pain?
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"When will the president's inflammatory Twitter reaction stop being bigger news than the news itself? He may be the president, but his insults are more predictable than a sunny day in Arizona and should no longer qualify as worthy of the lead of a story."
I disagree. POTUS has nuclear launch codes and the power to start a shooting war without a war declaration from congress. He is impulsive enough to do it. How can anyone tear their gaze away from this man child wrecking ball?
Anyone who thinks they can ignore this or not take it seriously doesn't understand the stakes.
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Comeys description of Obamas 'forgiveness' comes across as self justifying and overplayed. And his behaviour with Clintons emails always struck me as disengenious grandstanding for attention 'look how honourable I am'. Given his position/job he strikes me as emotionally immature and neither wise nor considered.
I find it hard to believe that Obama genuinely felt that sanguine re his behaviour.
And then there is Trump, that he is President and can get away with tweets of this 'calibre' shows he has brought the bar so low that people are grasping at straws in desperation, raising Comey to the level of Honour, which imv is manufactured.
But in the end its those with all the worst motivations who are sinking Trump, from Bannon to Wolf to Stormy to CA to Putin to Comey.
And that is both fitting, inevitable and historically and culturally archetypal.
I really wish Comey exercised restraint and waited on this. Because his book did exactly what many of us feared -- riled up Trump, who will lash out and do something stupid like coerce Sessions into firing Rosenstein... and begin the freeze-out on Mueller's work. Trump is guilty. So obviously guilty. Innocent people do not behave like this. And we're heading into a danger zone of not only Constitutional crisis, but the very security of the USA and the world is at stake as Trump is rattled at a time when extreme care and a cool head is needed in this Syrian crisis.
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Trump's comeuppance will be heavy indeed. As much as Trump has stiffed, hurt, manipulated, cheated, lied on and dismissed others-- must bring back a mighty blow. Deservedly so. This man does not believe in forgiveness. He wants only for himself. It's been coming. Let's pray we are only witnesses to it and do not become a part of his demise.
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It is the height of absurd that Trump calls anybody a liar, let alone Mr. Comey. It is close to treasonous that the Republican machine continues to align themselves with the disaster that is Trump and against the integrity of Comey, the FBI and the core systems of our government in a perverted quest for power.
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@Scott H
I regret I have to question your choice of "close to treasonous" to describe the Republicans.
What more would the Republicans have to do to, or avoid doing, for you to label them as treasonous? By ignoring the Russian interference in the 2016 election, and instead worrying about Trump's ego, the GOP is not fulfilling their oath of office to "protect and defend the US constitution from enemies foreign or domestic." Their inaction is treasonous.
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Ryan timed his departure correctly.
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Well, between these Tweets, and those sent out today - we've certainly strayed from Presidential speeches haven't we? Gone are the days of eloquence such as the Gettysburg address, "fear itself", "ask not..."...now we have this trash. All of which I might add will all be stored - together - in the National Archives of the United States of America. Let that sink in. Can we please get rid of this clown now? Begging here.
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You can get rid of Trump if the majority of states vote him out in 2020. That's how we do things here.
There are plenty of people happy with Trump's policies. He is doing what his voters elected him to do -- undo the eight years of Obama.
If you don't believe me, read the comment section of the Wall Street Journal as well as the comment section of the NY Times. It will give you a more balanced view of how the other half of Americans think.
I cannot believe that, of the four years of Presidency, we have not even reached 1.5 years of it. All it has been so far is waiting to see what tweets are produced next, who is the insultee of the day,who is called great and wonderful, and whatever else imaginable. This state of affairs is still to last until 2020? Terrible.
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Comey should say, "I know you are, but what am I?" since this seems to be the level of discourse with Trump.
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What would one expect from Trump. Garish, deceitful, greedy, duplicitous, lurid, illiterate, and amoral his entire live, now with his ill begotten gains has what he sees to be unlimited power. The in your face middle aggrieved Americans who see him as their savior, the religious zealots who see him as their savior (or the other) who will bring about end times, the complicit and colluding leaders not limited to Ryan, McConnell, Pence, et. al, the media maleficent immoral ones such as Hannity, Gingrich, et. al, the media stars such as Roseann and Ted Nugent, we pray that members in Congress with something of a moral compass regardless of party will invoke the 25th amendment so Pence as president will be gone shortly thereafter in 2020, Trump can fester in Mar a lago, or the generals still in proximity, given Trump's impulse to begin a nuclear holocaust, will end this nightmare of a presidency, a foregone necessity and conclusion that Trump has now swamped us into third world status. Trump, the Destroyer of Democracy.
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don't forget to credit the johnson & stein voters.
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Simple logic indicates that Comey's book is based on facts:
1). Trump far more often lies than he tells the truth
2). He always says what benefits him
3). Calling Comey a liar benefits Trump
4). Comey's account matches a lot of what we already know about Trump
5). From 1-4 it follows that Trump is lying and Comey must be telling the truth
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If the GOP hates Comey and the Democrats hate Comey, he must be doing something right.
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What puzzles me is the fact that no matter how much Trump's sour-faced press secretary Sanders lies, no one in the media present ever has the courage to stand up, call out her lies and deceit, and leave the room with the the rest of the press corps in tow. This is how one stands up to bullies.
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Because the press corps knows that is exactly what this administration hopes it will do. If the media walk away there will be no one left calling Trump and the rest to account.
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I've been saying this since days after the election. WHy do self respecting journalists partake in this absurd "press briefing" almost everyday? It embarrasses me to watch them.
When working with psychotic mentally ill people, you learn to NOT enter into their psychosis with them. Its not helpful for them. You have to "reality test", telling them gently but firmly that there isn't poison in their food, no one is reading their thoughts, and the guy walking by with his dog isn't the devil. Journalists who sit and listen attentively to Sanders spouting her fantasies and lies, and then go on to the next question as if her comments are perfectly sane and reasonable, are not doing her or their readers a favor. They re just encouraging her and her boss to go even deeper into their alternate reality.
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Trump is proving Comey's points.
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As Comey is proving that he is a political hack himself. If Comey had as much integrity as he claims he has, would he have written that book? Remember. It takes two to brawl in the gutter.
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Instead of regulating Facebook, it might be wiser to regulate the ilk of Fox News & other right wing media organisations who in the end are the reason the RNC and a US president feel safe to lie and malign so brazenly.
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I am both fascinated and terrified of knowing where the Republicans draw the line for doing the 45th's dirty work. if there is even a line.
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Ultimately, Trump needs to kiss Comey's feet for the way he handled the Hilary Clinton email situation which probably helped him even more than Russian collusion, get elected. Talk about an ingrate...
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Haven't they got the memo?
" ... even as many Democrats struggled with conflicted feelings about the man they blame for Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election."
Comey used to be a "bad guy," but he's been a "good guy" for close to a year now. Heck, for a while, even Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon and Reince Preibus were "good guys." I'm not counting on Hillary Clinton ever making the list, but who knows?
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Trump's a very convenient scapegoat for every high level figure's failure at this point. It's no coincidence that both Comey and Hillary, two individuals who have experienced a fall from grace, blame Trump.
And, of course, anyone who demonizes Trump will be lionized by the left wing.
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Whose list?
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Interesting that on the same day he labels a man, whose integrity remains beyond reproach, an “untruthful slime ball”, Trump pardons a Republican who has been convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. The crimes involved put both America’s national security at risk as well as the life of one of its citizens. So now Scooter can join the august ranks of great Americans like Sherrif Joe, and the soon to be pardoned Jr.
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Will it outsell The Art of the Deal?
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And we're off ... Trump vs. reality. Which will hold?
Just depends how many of the Trump/Fox cult will buy-in to the argument that Trump appointee (and Republican) Rod Rosenstein and Trump appointee (and Republican) Jeff Sessions have conspired to convince (Republican) James Comey and (Republican) Robert Mueller to take down Trump. And, further, that they've all (secretly) been closeted liberals which, of course, also explains why they let Hillary off the hook, too.
Put aside the question of "why?" because the logic of these right wing fever dreams never ascends past the lizard brain. Even if you believe this nonsense, what's the motivation? This complicated, multi-year conspiracy was conceived for what end? To push Trump out of office so ... we can have a President Pence? None of it stands up to even a light breeze of critical thought.
I doubt we'll get to those questions or the pith of these things. Not with the carnival barkers rolling into town.
Republicans will stroke the sense of victim hood of their audience and roll out the normal fear porn. History tells us that like 90% of Republicans will buy any Trump/Fox argument. Not a free-thinking bunch.
I'm hoping reality prevails but I'm not overly optimistic that it can survive continued battles with this cult of nonsense.
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Chris: Reality? 24 and counting repubs will not seek re election. Got cushy jobs waiting? Who will remain to 'lead' the repubs. Devin Nunes? It would be funny if it were not so sad.
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It is striking and way beyond the pale that WH press secretary Sanders would say that Mr. Comey “has no credibility.” This is like saying the sun rises in the West. This has to be a historic joke on her part ... her speaking these very words in defensive of a person who’s a pathological liar ... and against a person, Mr. Comey, who shows himself to be both honorable (maybe not perfect) to his calling in the service of justice, and, beyond this, a true patriot, willing to stand against a bully who just happens to have the entrusted power of the presidency. To those of us, like myself: If you were in Mr. Comey’s position (think about it!) presently, would you have the courage to do as he’s done? I would, speaking for myself, hope so.
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Comey admitted that his decision to discuss the emails was based on the fact that he thought Clinton would win. Implicit in that comment is hat had he known Trump was competitive, he would have hid this information. Additionally, he made a decision not to prosecute which he was not
Empowered to do. He will go down in history as the least competent of any AG.
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While we're in Trump's elementary school domain, why not bring back an old fave to answer his tweet: "Whoever smelt it, dealt it."
The highest office in our country is being violated daily by an unfit, unprepared, mentally unstable, dangerous monster of a person.
May the end of his term come swiftly and decisively (and hopefully before 2020).
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He just pardoned Libby for the same things he is accusing Comey of...
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President Trump - adrift in a sea of scorn.
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Ummm... what a tweet. A little projection going on here?!
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Book or no book, James Comey has more honor and integrity in his little fingernail than Trump will ever have in a lifetime. Period.
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Instead of ad hominem arguments against Comey, refute his statements with facts that support your position.
Oh but you can not because you don't have them.
So the only thing you can do is resort to name calling and ad hominem arguments.
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Does Trump have any self-perception at all? He is stomping and raving like a madman, tweeting insane insults at Comey and anyone who thwarts him or gets in his face. This is not a president. This is a total looney at the helm of the ship of state.
We can't trust anything he says or does. The Syria threat? It looks like a total distraction--and Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls Comey's book a publicity stunt!
The tariffs against China and the world--big threat, roils the market, but wait! They were 60-70% rolled back! Then they haven't been enacted yet by anyone! And so, another distraction? Another publicity stunt?
With all of this Kabuki drama going on, who is running the nation? Pompeo may not be confirmed as Secretary of State, we have ambassadorships totally empty (Korea!) and acres of Washington administration positions open. Where is the administration. All is incompetence, chaos and craziness.
Who will relieve the nation of this madman. He is utterly out of control.
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A rational president might have dropped missiles on Syria or ordered tariffs on Chinese goods as a distraction. But a rational president would have stood by his guns, at least for a little while so as not to appear weak and vacillating. So the only alternative is that we do not have a rational president. Fasten your seatbelts, as they say.
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This is why character counts, Mr. Trump. When you campaign with lies and keep on lying, nobody believes you when the chips are down. Comey may have made a couple of judgement errors in the Clinton email investigation, but there is no reason to believe he lies. You, on the other hand, well.
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Is it Comey’s revenge, or the beginning of the ‘Empire Strikes Back?’ The “third party” in America, the “Deep State”, is about to resolve the nation’s ‘Trump problem!’ Trump is a loose cannon. The “Establishment” doesn’t like surprises or disruption. Further, the intelligence/law enforcement communities will only tolerate being messed with for so long. Having signed the Tax cut bill, Trump’s shelf life has been steadily expiring. His tweets sound that much more futile, desperate, and impotent. Whether there was textbook “collusion” with the Russians or not, the cops and spooks have had enough of this reckless, philandering fool! Mueller’s raid against Cohen is an aggressive move that dares Trump to fire him. Doing that, the impeachment ripcord will be pulled. In Congress it’s always ‘every man for himself.’ Trump is beginning to realize that he has no defense against exposure and prosecution. Whether railroaded or lawfully removed Trump’s inability to deal with the “serious people” is about to be revealed. We know this because his own appointees are on board (Et tu Brutus?). No President outranks the Deep State; Eisenhower warned of it, JFK decried it, Hoover represented it, and old traditions die hard. The Man Who Would be King has no clue. In this government of checks and balances the People’s mistake is about to be corrected, probably just in time for the midterms. You can’t make this stuff up! You also have to figure Comey is not afraid of being sued for libel!
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This is disgraceful. But worse? Worse is the behavior of the GOP. They should be ashamed. Instead they are going full Trump. One Rep from Ohio was on MSNBC today blaming Hillary, what about Hillary, emails, Benghazi, trying to compare the FBI investigation into emails with the investigation into a foreign attack on our democracy, etc.
It was gaslighting pure and simple. This is how you unravel a democracy.
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Textbook example of the pot calling the kettle black. I can still hear school yard taunts of "It takes one to know one!" James Comey can look into his mirror with pride. On the other hand, Trump best not look. Doubt whether his cell will include a mirror.
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Comey and Trump are really two sides of the same coin. Trump is an unhinged liar, and Comey is a man of measured words, and truthful. Yet both of these men have huge egos. This book will give us salacious details about the Trump/Comey standoff, but the writing of it seems an obvious act of revenge. I don't blame Comey for wanting to get revenge against Trump for ruining his career while also smearing his reputation, but Comey cannot present himself as a good man of integrity while writing a salacious tell all. This book will whip up those that continue to defend Trump - no matter what horrible things he says or does - to defend him harder, and it will make those that despise Trump feel even more frustrated.
In the short term Comey's book will be unhelpful to Americans - in fact it could hurt Democrats in up coming midterms as it whips up the Trump base. As different as Trump, and Comey are from one another when it comes to integrity (Comey has shown some, while Trump shows none) they seem to have the common trait of huge egos, and self-serving revenge against people that have hurt them. Comey has every right to tell his side, but I believe it will be helpful to no one, and will likely cause further division in a nation already ripping itself apart. All that being said Trump sinks to an all time low with his latest tweets, and on it goes.
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I tend to agree with you. Comeys description of Obamas 'forgiveness' comes across as self justifying and overplayed. And his behaviour with Clintons emails always struck me as disengenious grandstanding for attention 'look how honourable I am'. Given his position/job he strikes me as emotionally immature and not especially wise or considered.
I find it hard to believe that Obama genuinely felt that sanguine re his behaviour.
And then there is Trump, that he is President and can get away with tweets of this 'calibre' is horrifying, he has brought the bar so low that people are grasping at straws in desperation, raising Comey to the level of Honour, which imv is manufactured.
But in the end its those with dubious motivations who are sinking Trump, from Bannon to Wolf to Stormy to CA to Putin to Comey.
And that is both fitting, inevitable and historically and culturally archetypal.
Comey's outsized ego led him to insert himself into an election to protect the integrity of a presidency he predicted. The problem, of course, is no one elected Comey to save anyone. His job was to enforce the law. Were he to have done that with Hillary, he might not have found himself having to defend her.
Comey should have been prosecuting Hillary, not protecting her. He damaged himself by allowing Hillary to skate by. That's not Trump's fault. The blame is entirely his own.
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Never was the old saying more appropriate:
"When you point one finger, there are three fingers pointing back to you."
And in Trump's case, three miniature fingers.
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The only possible response to this presidential temper tantrum, "I'm rubber and you're glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you."
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I don't like living in Trussia (not a typo). And it sounds like Comey has explained exactly why others feel the same way.
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My country is so, so sad for you Americans, given the unbelievable lowlife current president you can't seem to get rid of. I can't understand how Trump's advisors (the senior one being his Son-In-Law!!) and supposedly intelligent family, don't stop him tweeting and saying these ludicrous things about anyone he disagrees with. A UK Prime Minister wouldn't last a week if that happened here. Why are you all tolerating this and seemingly unable to do anything to stop it?
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We don't have a parliamentary system here, in which members can oust a party leader with a vote of no confidence. Here the process is much more complicated. The current majority (Republicans) don't have the spine to oppose trump. Even if Democrats will a majority in the House next November, they need a legal reason to start impeachment hearings. That's a process that could take until the end of Trump's term in 2020. I believe we are stuck with this disaster for a few more years.
Because in the United States we don't get rid of a president because half the country doesn't like him. The half of the country that voted for him wouldn't be too happy.
Plenty of people don't regret their vote for Trump. They voted for the candidate who promised to undo Obama's legacy and in that regard, Trump is delivering.
We’re “tolerating” this because right now we have no other choice: midterms are still seven months away and the 2020 elections, God help us, won’t take place for another 2.5 years. We’re “tolerating” this because Robert Mueller hasn’t yet come to the end of his investigation and, given the levels of extreme shade that appear to be at work here, he probably won’t any time soon, and he won’t finish at all if he gets fired. We’re “seemingly unable to do anything to stop it” because our esteemed Congress values party over country and won’t step in to stop this destructive monster because they need said monster to achieve their ends. Even if they grew a collective spine and tried to stand up to him, the cult of Trump is still fierce among a significant group of people: you wouldn’t believe the number of Trump bumper stickers I still see on cars, and I live in a pretty liberal area of the northeast. I imagine it’s much worse in more conservative regions. These people are not going to go quietly into that good night if Congress or anyone else tries to kick Trump to the curb. They’re more loyal to him than to America, sanity, or reasonable legal thought, and he knows it. So this is all why we still have our “stable genius” at the helm. While I’m glad to know this wouldn’t last in the U.K., I never thought it would last as long as it has here, either. Please have sympathy for us. Many of us want this national nightmare to end.
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Well good. If trump now has time on his hands to tweet drivel, it must mean that he has the Syrian situation under control and can head south for a game of golf.
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Mr. Minus 45- it's time for him to take a loss. The majority of the American People have had enough of these antics. Decency and honor need to be brought back to the White House and this so called President, making continuous false statements and perpetual name calling, makes me sick to my stomach. Never had I been so disappointed in a President!. Yes, please MAGA and just resign!
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I believe every word Comey says.
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I just played RFK's Indianapolis impromptu speech after MLK's assassination for my 11th grade U.S. History class. The first comment I got was, "Can you imagine our president today being able to do that?" Time wounds all heels bucko.
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The daily activities of the President of the United States of America Donald J tRump has made the Kardashians irrelevant.
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Okay. And therefore ...?
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Well, Trump was talking to his mirror image... Yeah, that's who he was talking to.
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Trump has no credibility, while Comey has good credibility. Thus, Trump can say what he wants, whatever he says is of dubious veracity just because of his prolific history of asserting untruthful things. His use of disparaging language also does not mean anything to anyone who has listened to the man, because he just flies off the handle and uses bad language every time that he does.
Trump has no respect for truth. He has no respect for reality as it happens to be. So, he's always going to make stupid mistakes and misrepresent what he has done and why. He's acting according to his unconscious and never tries to understand himself.
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Wow! Three RNC honchos, Wynn, Cohen, and Broidy, all stepping down in the last few months.
Three fantastic examples of GOP values and stewardship—sexual abuse in the case of Wynn, an affair and impregnating of a Bunny and shady business deals for Broidy and Mr. Fixit with a payout and NDA, Michael Cohen.
Really, stop and think, even those of you who are life long Republicans. Do you really think this is okay? To use Donald’s favorite word, this is what is actually disgraceful.
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It is Sarah Sanders who lacks credibility as she postures on her podium with her superior demeanor, dogmatically reciting her pre-written responses. The Republican Party and Mr. Trump are 'Shameless' in their attacks on Mr. Comey. Mr. Comey's statements have been cooberated by many other's written accounts. The Republicans and Mr. Trump are wallowing in the swamps like big bellied alligators when they should rise above these extraneous matters and take care of the business of government...as they promised. I don't blame Mr. Ryan for resigning. Beyond the normal sewer of politics, they have now sunk to a never-before-seen low . Now they are down with the underworld with the vipers and the stench of the lower levels of the sewer is rising strong in their nostrils.
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Don't insult the vipers. Those little beings are beautiful in their own way and very, very useful. By the way, they would never glide into the underworld you describe: they love sun, warmth and cracks in rocks. Clean living....
That said, I love the images you used. Very apprpriate.
Comey is laughing all the way to the bank as the President's tweets help him sell books!
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The incredible shrinking President
becomes a smaller man every day,
stooping to vulgar personal attacks,
and saying things people with class never say.
He'll never learn to act presidential;
that much is clear -- alas!
And all that's left for the nation to tell him
is, "Trump, you ain't got no class!"
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Comey lies, deflects, rationalizes,and self-genuflects so well that its fair to say he forgot he was an appointed government official instead of a candidate for US Senator.
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Comey is a disgruntled employee who believes he was far more important than he was.
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To give anything that President Trump says credibility is insane. "The President has decided..." This guy doesn't have enough synapses firing to come up with a thought. Another " President Trump believes in a policy of...." Are you kidding? The media goes with this by saying his positions is long term "The President has reversed his position. No, he hasn't He can't play connect the dots let alone analyze a position. No one in congress seems to able to stand up and say this guy is crazy + 800 other substations and we need to do something. Trump supports are saying the media has made these comments. "no it's on well the edited the tape.
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As on many occasions, when President Trump attacks someone, he advertently describes himself. That is not a novel observation, but one that bears repeating.
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Not a single word of Trump's tweets suggest he has read so much as one page of Comey's book. Of course this comes as a surprise to no one because Trump is functionally illiterate.
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"'It takes one to know one,' she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets, Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning. 'You Belong to Me I Believe'
And someone says, "You're in the wrong place, my friend, you'd better leave."
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Our president. Makes us so proud, every day.
Lol ! And more content for daily night comedy shows too !!
“Be forever known as a disgraced partisan hack that broke his sacred trust with the president of the United States.”
No, Sarah, his trust was with the citizens of the U.S., and our belief, albeit imperfectly practiced, that no individual is "above" the law. The person who is breaking a sacred trust is the president, and as his spokesman, you. Scary that SHS doesn't seem to know the difference.
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Trump calling Comey a "untruthful slimeball" is an example of what psychologists call "projection." It is a defensive mechanism used by subjects who feel trapped and attack an adversary by accusing them of something for which they are guilty of doing.
How many times has Trump lied, or made misleading statements?
Last time I checked it was over 2,000 times since taking office.
You can thank the same GOP that lied us into the Iraq War, twice.
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We have a quite amusing expression out our way. If someone reacts too strongly to something true but unflattering that has been said about him, we say, "The dog which has been struck yowls."
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Trump calls his enemies by the names that best describe Trump himself.
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Who's going to win this war? Truth, justice and the American way, or Trump, the gutless Republicans in congress and the right wing propaganda machine lead by fox news. I really wonder.
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Precession. The spinning of tops. This sounds like a rehash of the substance-less campaign, with the leitmotiv an investigation which supposedly accounts for Trump's victory. It could be, of course, that since the FBI has a history malfeasance, or something like it, that in an effort to improve both its image and that of Mr. Comey, that the investigation was wittingly scrupulous, producing an equally unwitting avoidance of what the real reason for the so-called victory was. Another possibility is that Mr. Comey rightly seeks to defend himself against libelous, slanderous comments from the Character Assassin in Chief, then and now. His sense of the President's character could be heavily influenced by his former position in that he likely had ample information about divers aspects of the career of the business "potentate". Haven't read it. May not. Imagining an upstanding FBI director is very difficult for me, especially in the light of the Pan Am 103 investigation, a model of political pressure on an investigation. Value being what it is, one does have to look at whom it is that is doing the valuing.
Trump merely projected onto Comey his own character traits.
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Can we sink any lower than Donald Trump? Maybe; consider that 40% of America’s citizens don’t appear to care what their president says or does?
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Hmmm... what did my mother used to say to me? It takes one to know one, Mr. Trump.
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And so it goes, the fish continues to rot from the head down. Every day, another Republican goes down in a scandal. The stench is awful and pervasive, it's impossible to ignore. Their hush-money is corrupting everything it touches.
Thank God we still have ethical patriots like Mr. Comey. A small light in this vast darkness of degeneracy and immorality.
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Spot on assessment of Trump by Mr. Comey. I wish more Republicans would have the spine to bring up the elephant in the room--that Trump is unfit to be President based on his moral and ethical turpitude and his attack on our governing institutions. Trump's addled brain has mixed up Presidential executive power with the monarchical rule of King George III.
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republicans are going to go down in flames in the fall elections. Its why so many house members are announcing their retirements.
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The only reason it seems to me why trump has to go straight to name calling is obvious, its because he has nothing he can say to actually defend himself. He has used other people his whole life to cover up his past lewd/criminal deeds, its all catching up to him now. America can't be bought and paid for like his employed thugs, justice is getting very close to that knock on his door. He will soon be taking the picture he will be most remembered for, a front shot and then a profile with the days date and his arrest number.
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For a supposedly strong business leader, he sure does take things mighty personally.
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RNC is beyond redeemable now, sorry to see the great GOP totally fail into the lava pit of Trump. Reality catches up with them too:
FIRST:
"The Republican National Committee joined in with an all-hands effort to discredit Mr. Comey by distributing lengthy talking points to conservative pundits, sympathetic media hosts and Republican lawmakers."
LATER FRIDAY:
RNC official steps down after reported $1.6 million payment to pregnant Playmate - Elliott Broidy, a top GOP fundraiser and prominent backer of President Trump, left his post as deputy finance chair of the RNC after revelations that Cohen, negotiated a deal with Playboy model whom Broidy had impregnated.
This is more unbelievable than a soapy reality TV show. OH WAIT, we're all (imprisoned) in Donald Trump's latest reality TV episode. Can he at least give us a laugh track?
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Our president, a real class act. As always, greater threats are followed by greater insults. And more publicity for the book.
The name-callers have nothing better to offer: no facts and not even original fiction.
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I would hire Comey in a nano-second to lead a company or organization. I wouldn’t even hire Trump to clean the toilets.
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Comey made a mistake which he has admitted. He is at least self-aware enough to admit his flaws and tries to undo the harm he may have done. He deserves a lot of credit for his years of public service marked by the best of intentions and hard work.
To hear people criticize him for writing about Trump's appearance is beyond silly. Its a memoir. He had impressions and they were fairly represented. He didn't make stuff up.
If your life was in danger and you had to call on either Comey or Trump for help, which one would you turn to? Is there anyone with less credibility than Trump or his supporters?
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"The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, tweeted early Friday that Mr. Comey 'has no credibility.'" Anyone who claims or even implies that Trump is more credible than Comey has no credibility himself/herself.
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The press secretry just expressionlessly offers her lines, like an child who has learnt a text by heart - I wonder whether she stands behind the phrases she has to say.
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We are going to need ongoing therapy as a nation to recover from this man-child's outbursts that we've been subjected to for the past 15 months. Tuesdays at 7pm works for me. Does that work for everyone else?
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I am hearing a circa late 1960s TV jingle in my head:
The pot was calling the kettle black
The kettle was afraid to answer back
Well Trump calling anyone a "liar" is akin to that.
Spewing out these types of insults slimeball, crooked Hillary etc. scored points with his base and got Trump elected.
The Dems must support programs to help displaced workers regain jobs that will restore their lost income.
HRC did not do this but instead called displaced workers 'deplorables'.
Trump gave false hope and made promises he can not fulfill but he was believed.
But instead of telling laid off coal miners to become call call center operators at a fraction of their former wage as HRC proposed , we could have FDR New Deal WPA/ PWA /CCC type programs to restore lost income.
Restoring lost income will have much greater effect on bringing displaced workers back to the Democratic Party than criticizing Trump's immature name calling [no matter how deserved the criticism is of Trump].
Trump described himself perfectly. Meanwhile, he soils our nation.
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But already #2 on Amazon (my copy arrives Tuesday). And there are Comey t-shirts. Ha!
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I notice that our infuriated so called President did not dispute the facts that Comey speaks about in the book.
Instead he resorted to his usual name calling and insulting.
How Presidential!
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Donald, the way to do this is to pay Comey many millions of dollars and get him to sign a non-disclosure agreement with that guy Dennison. The book is not out yet, you still may have time.
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Everyone should stop using the word "SHOULD" when it comes to Trump. There is no he should do this, he should do that...... get with the program, people. It's way past time. This is the monstrosity of a president we are stuck with. For now.
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Comey is so strange. So he knew about Loretta Lynch not being independent and decided to do nothing about it? I always thought this deep state stuff was just paranoia. Turns out I was so wrong...
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Comey's behavior toward Clinton was hardly up to the standard he claims guided his actions. His hubris led him to act in a way that diminished the reputation of the FBI and himself.
While Trump's critics focus on Trump's tweets (the outrage of the day for them), Comey is now a fired government employee whose reputation will be in tatters for having not only blown the Clinton investigation but written a book defending himself.
In the end, Comey is responsible for his own behavior, not Trump.
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AACNY:
"In the end, Comey is responsible for his own behavior, not Trump."
And vice versa.
My first thought is that Trump, Kellyanne, and Sarah Sanders are the last people on this planet who should be talking about "credibility."
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I'm hoping for someone, anyone, to stand up to Trump and say, "have you no sense of decency?"
I can't bear to add the "sir" to this famous quote from the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings.
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The most immoral and unscrupulous president in our history is being confronted by a man who sees it as his mission from God to fight for honor and morals. It's the ultimate fight between good and evil.
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The American people owe a galaxy of gratitude to James Comey and Robert Mueller. What a contrast to Donald Trump and his cowardly coterie.
Anyone reading their biographies can only be elated that our nation can still produce such distinguished public servants. Years from now we will fully realize how lucky we were to have them have our proverbial backs.
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Like they used to say on the playground:
"Takes One to Know One!"
“We find that Mr. Comey has a revisionist view of history and seems like a disgruntled ex-employee,” Ms. Conway said on Friday. “After all, he was fired.”
As someone who deals in 'alternative facts' she should know that her word is not the last word.
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Like most disordered narcissists he can't hold back. So wish that the major media outlets would decide to ignore his tweets
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James Comey, when he served under AG Ashcroft, was not afraid to block Dick Cheney's illegal surveillance program, and he was not afraid to publicly criticize Hillary Clinton when she was the Democratic nominee for President. Similarly, he resisted Trump's demands for abject loyalty, and he is fearless in speaking the truth about Trump. It would be so refreshing to see a few Republicans in Congress follow his example.
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Comey was afraid, however, to fully investigate and prosecute Hillary. We see how Mueller is going after Trump. Contrast that with Hillary's treatment. Big difference.
If Clinton had faced the full power of the Justice System, she would be in Trump's shoes now.
It is interesting to me how current Republican internet talking points, memes and current Republican political positions now align almost perfectly with Russian talking points, memes and current Russian positions.
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A classic example of the "The pot calling the kettle black".
I would not expect any other response from this man-child. Adjectives that describes Mr. Comey's character, such as integrity, morality, honesty, etc. are not a part of Donald's vocabulary. Once again, the real Donald John has been exposed and he is beyound anger.
Keep on doing what you are doing Donald John. keep on adding fuel to the fire for November midterms are around the corner and voter turnout will be historical.
The end of the destruction and harm you have caused so many is coming to an end. We the People are taking our United States of America back.
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When will the president's inflammatory Twitter reaction stop being bigger news than the news itself? He may be the president, but his insults are more predictable than a sunny day in Arizona and should no longer qualify as worthy of the lead of a story.
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Trump has never understood the concept of truth, it just isn't part of his DNA, so for him to call Comey untruthful is simply comic. That said, it is a rare and unsettling feeling to find myself in agreement with Sarah Huckabee Sanders. That the former Director of the FBI should somehow feel that it is perfectly okay to reveal private conversations with U.S. Presidents, and to make petty observations about things like physical appearance, is staggering. Comey throws John Kelly under the bus; he makes untoward suggestions about Loretta Lynch without substantiating them - if he cannot reveal their substance because these matters are classified he should not mention them in the first place. It is not fair to Lynch and it is not fair to readers who have no means of assessing the validity of his judgements. This all purports to be in the name of outraged integrity and honour but it looks more like simple vindictiveness. Is there no integrity or professionalism left anywhere among those in high positions of power in the U.S.? Seemingly not. The act of leaking information has become normal. So has dissembling. That Trump lies is simply regarded as a predictable aspect of his character. He may well also be the leaker-in-chief, although he becomes enraged when others leak information without his authority. I don't think Comey would lie. That isn't in his personal DNA. But that doesn't make his actions in disclosing confidential and highly prejudicial information honourable.
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It's curious that Trump and his team seem to have little interest in fighting back to deter further Russian interference in our political process, as Comey notes about the meeting where he briefed Trump on Russian interference in the 2016 elections. I think it's likely the Russians will pick the OTHER side to help in the 2018 midterms. Why? How better to weaken our country, and thereby our influence around the world, than by throwing us into a potential multi-year impeachment process led by a new Democratic majority in the House and Senate? Think about it. If I were Putin, that is what I'd do next.
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"By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things." [St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5.22-23]
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Once again, Mr. Trump demonstrates who he really is, a man who lacks dignity and self-assurance. Only such men need to publicly call others names like "slimeball." What is it that Mr. Trump fears? Stay tuned for the next episode.
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Believe it or not, once upon a time, there were republicans with integrity. None since Eisenhower and Ford.
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Apparently, no one ever taught Trump that it's weak and cowardly to punch downward. And when you're President, pretty much everyone else is downward. Other presidents have treated that asymmetry of power as a limit on their behavior. Trump sees it as a golden opportunity to hurt people who cannot fight back directly. It's like screaming at harried waiters and clerks because you know they aren't allowed to talk back and are powerless to defend themselves.
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Sure. But he was that way in grade school, too.
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And Trump is the person deciding so much for the country. When will we be done with this nightmare.
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I am no fan of Trump, but I am ambivalent about Comey, especially after his antics towards the end of the election cycle in 2016. Honestly, all the talk of Russian interference etc pales in comparison to the harm that one of our own, ie Comey, did, to the electoral process.
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Trump's critics are responsible for much of this mess. First, they played up Russian "collusion" and now they are giving a pass to a misguided FBI head who behaved inappropriately -- that is, went far beyond the scope of his own position.
Their distortion of events involving Trump because of leftwing animus is a tragedy for our country. Unfortunately, we'll have to endure their behavior as long as Trump is president.
The "pot" calling the kettle black is our own leftwing.
Actually it doesn’t, it was just in plain sight.
By his reaction, hasn't Trump simply reinforced Comey's point?
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our nation is beyond repair. You don't come back from this mess. Apologize for your kids for their lack of a future. Go overseas and find out how people really feel about us. The embarrassment is painful.
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Trump is beyond repair, but I have a lot of hope for our country. Look at the teachers' protests, the kids taking on the NRA, BLM exposing injustices. I think we're in a place somewhat like the '60s, and hopefully we go from here to an improved society. Maybe I'm naive, as this ignores the utter ignorance of many Trump voters and Fox viewers. But we survived the Civil War, lynchings and segregation - there's hope.
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Nonsense. We made it through McCarthyism, and a civil war. But I certainly do hope we learn from this mistake in the White House. Candidates in the future should have experience in governance, and a work history demonstrating their commitment to helping all Americans.
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Pain is not deadly.
It's usually the symptom of a condition that needs to be fixed.
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Shame on the Republican National Committee for aiding and abetting the least truthful president in history in his ongoing crime wave against democracy and truth.
Is this how low one of our governing parties had sunk?
I suppose this and Trump are the logical conclusions of what they have been preaching for decades.
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If Comey wrote something in his book that Trump believes is false then Trump should point out the inaccuracy or untruth.
But Trump is unable to do this so Trump must resort to name calling.
But Trump is not a sub teenager on a playground trading insults.
He is a 70 year old and should act like a mature adult and not a little child.
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In order to point out any specific falsehoods, Trump would have to read it first. So, yeah, probably not going to happen.
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Reporters on CNN have criticized Comey for his unflattering descriptions of Trump (white half-moons under his eyes, hand size). I don't know why they're so upset about this. They're supposed to be impartial or even Democratic-leaning. Trump, on the other hand, is allowed to say nasty things about lots of people. I think Comey's impressions about Trump add to the reality of what Comey observed. They're not there for revenge, which is what a couple of reporters have said. Until very recently, there was a false equivalence shown to reporting of Republican and Democratic actions. It seems to me that these reporters are upset when someone (Comey) tells it like it is, not shying away from a description of what Trump really looks like and acts like. But then Trump is allowed to call Comey a slime ball and liar. Is that supposed to be cute? Do we chuckle about that? I'm amazed at these criticisms of Comey. He should get lots of blame, in my opinion, for what he did to Clinton during the presidential campaign, but he certainly doesn't deserve blame for criticisms of the real Trump. He deserves praise for that.
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The RNC should now be called "The Trump National Committee".
The party of law and order has now become the party of defending accused sexual deviates and aggressively attacking law enforcement.
For those who wish to voice their concerns, here are some of the RNC members: https://gop.com/leaders/national/
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Just in case Ms. Clueless doesn’t realize it, being fired by the Child in Charge is more a distinction of honor than anything else.
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The Republican approach to governing these days seems to consist exclusively of coming up with vituperative epithets for opponents.
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What an endorsement. This will probably double Mr. Comey's sales.
If Donald was a gun advocate--he would by now have blown all of his toes off--- thinking that the shadow against the window was a burglar.
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When we were children, our parents told us, "Don't be a name caller. When you have to resort to name-calling, you've lost the argument."
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And it is so true that "everything you need to know you learned in kindergarten." It it the period of life in which caring teachers mold little beasts into real humans with self-control; a sense of others as they are, themselves; and a respect for rules and authority.
Maybe the Trumpet skipped kindergarten, being the stable genius that he is, he is............
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Trump could not be where he is without ongoing support from spineless, self-serving, amoral Republican politicians who refuse to say no more. How much damage does this administration need to do before we come together and put a stop to the destruction of our country and all that we stand for?
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If you’re allowed to keep your job, Mr president, please keep acting this way, right up until Nov 2018.
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Oh, even longer_right up until Nov 2020. Just to be sure he's a one-termer or less, if possible.
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All those people who foolishly insist there is a big gap between Trump and the machinery of the GOP...here is one more example of how entwined they really are. The GOP IS Trump. Trump IS the GOP.
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it is like the star trek movie where voyager melds with an alien vehicle and becomes the crazy Veejer. Finally was turned off
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Americans are doing politics in the style of a third-world country: he said -she said- it may be that ... but they know how to make money out of the deal.
This presidency will leave the country scathed, but a few people, i.e., Clinton, Wolf, Comey, quite rich, indeed.
Shame on us for buying those books!
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Third world countries usually don't do "he said, she said" because they, with few exceptions, don't have a free press. Thank heaven, we do. As far as I'm concerned, our free press should call trump out on everything... Every single transgression they can find. This is the most corrupt presidency I've lived through and that includes Nixon. I'm truly glad I'm not working for the fed anymore and my heart breaks for all of the dedicated civil servants currently forced to dismantle or subborn decades of regulations developed to protect us all from the most venal, greedy and hate-filled among us.
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Seems like freedom of speech. It's not always nice.
There is nothing wrong with these books. It's up to the readers to put them into context, and eventually up to historians to assess their place. I intend to read Comey's book (haven't read the others), as I think it represents a "first draft of history" -- a true insider's account of what has been happening inside the gov't at that critical period.
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The majority of the Americans feel the opposite trump.
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So long as Trump felt like he was "the man on top" and in control of his destiny, we were relatively safe from his doing anything too drastic or dangerous that might actually imperil the citizens of this country or cause our lives to directly suffer actual harm because of him. In other words, as a New Yorker I felt sheltered from most of the disastrous policies that were being implemented in Washington by Trump and the perfidious Congress - we could mitigate the worst at the state level. But now Trump is coming unhinged and there is a REAL danger that he will take some action that will not be able to be mitigated at the state level and that might bring the country to irreversible despair. I am sure that this man will NOT go away quietly or accept being brought down lightly. He's becoming a cornered animal and when an animal is cornered, they strike out as hard as they can attempting to kill their attackers or die in the attempt. WHEN will this nightmare be over??!!
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I have no love for Comey. He says he revealed new investigatory details regarding Clinton's emails 11 days before the election because he thought she would win anyway and didn't want her election to be considered "illegitimate."
How tin-eared. If he had consulted with any woman he would have known her election was far from certain and that his revelation would be the last nail in the coffin. All the women I knew figured the rug would get pulled out from under her, and we were right. He, along with a minority of voters and a misbegotten electoral college system cost the US an eminently qualified president who also happened to be a woman.
She was the president the US needed, but apparently not the one the US deserved. So now we pay the price. Thanks Comey.
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Strange comment about if he had "consulted with any woman". I'm a woman. I suspected the DNC was going to pull the rug out from under Sanders. It was nearly a year after the election that I found out that it was because Clinton produced the cash to bail out the DNC because it was broke due to financial mismanagement by its leaders. Comey was truthful and took his responsibilities seriously. Apparently some people feel that is only good when they like the results. In the long run, we need to clean up politics in this country so that we don't have such terrible candidates, and that starts with the party endorsements, which should reflect the will of the rank and file members and not the top-down imposition of party "leaders" or superdelegates.
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Clinton won the popular vote. The electors, not Comey, chose Trumpet. The problem with the electors was that they, themselves, were the spineless fools over an important decision......
God save us all.............
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Oh, come now! "Any woman" could have told Comey that the election was not "sewn up" for Clinton? While many of us, women most of all, were upset with Comey's last-minute revelation and worried it would affect the vote, even Trump and his supporters expected Clinton to win right up until very late on election night!
Like almost all of us, I haven't read Comey's book, but what I've read about his explanation seems entirely plausible -- naive probably, but plausible.
Did that actually cost Clinton the election? It surely cost her votes, but who's to say that was really the deciding factor? Clinton made plenty of missteps on her own throughout the campaign.
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And the RNC runs to the propaganda machines to spin away the truth. Republicans decided to run their party based on lies when Fox News began and doubled down on the effort when Obama was president. Undoing the damage to our country from that will be so hard, if it’s even possible, especially since it appears that lies are their continuing “go to” policy.
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How can any person who has respect for the United States support Trump? It is not possible..and that includes the Republican Congress.
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A couple of days ago Paul Waldman of Wapo listed a number of fairly proven accusations of Trumps business dealings before he was elected. Theres a common psychology behavior called transference. Waldman’s list is economical and devastating. “Trump isn’t someone who played close to the line a time or two, or once did a shady deal. He may well be the single most corrupt major business figure in the United States of America. He ran scams like Trump University to con struggling people out of their money. He lent his name to pyramid schemes. He bankrupted casinos and still somehow made millions while others were left holding the bag. He refused to pay vendors. He exploited foreign workers. He used illegal labor. He discriminated against African American renters. He violated Federal Trade Commission rules on stock purchases. He did business with the mob and with Eastern European kleptocrats. His properties became the go-to vehicle for Russian oligarchs and mobsters to launder their money.”
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Actually, transference is what happens between therapist and client. You're thinking of "projection." Similar principle, though.
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Trump at a rally in South Carolina once said: "I know words. I have the best words." His recent rant vilifying Comey provides little evdience that he has a stellar vocabulary to draw upon.
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Wow worlds like that from Trump. Mr Comey you must be doing something right. Please continue serving America. Our President sure won't.
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If Comey is being untruthful the President should offer proof. Even Nixon had tapes.
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What I have to say about Trump cannot be printed here because I would exceed the character limit. Once I even think about Trump and his administration which essentially supports a dictatorship and a family mofia coupled with the dishonesty of FOX news (Trump's personal propaganda machine) I become overwhelmed with contempt.
When Trump is finally taken down I think it should become a national federal holiday each year thereafter as a reminder of our freedom from the worst U.S. President ever to be elected.
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Mr. Comey should have waited to publish if he were going to make it so personal. The title could better be called "It Wasn't My Fault." I think he overstepped on the personal stuff and really, not much new in the Trump Is Awful listing. An insider's view is an asset but as they say Revenge should be served cold. Mr. Comey's need for revenge - ostensibly to save his reputation - is white hot. And so we have a verbal spat between two men who can't keep silent, then or now, that isn't helpful during a time when a legitimate investigation is ongoing.
The FBI needs to have the highest standards because always the bad guys will try to denigrate them. Mr. Comey just handed them a hot poker to push back. Worse, I'm sure it was done now because once Mr. Trump leaves office it won't sell nearly as well.
One thing you can say about Mr. Trump - he sure knows how to sell books. #1 on Amazon before it's published? Mr. Comey may be angry at how his reputation has suffered - and I believe him when he said he did it for the right reasons (albeit misguided) but we knew that already. He has now chosen to be an angry rich man. Just like Mr. Trump. Lots of irony here.
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I have not always agreed with Comey's decisions, namely the way he handled things with Hillary Clinton, but I have to say, I admire his gall here. Are some of his comments that have been released from the book petty? Absolutely. Does it bother me? Not at all.
I tend to be the kind of person who tries to feel empathy for people, even those who are seemingly undeserving, because you never truly know what has gone on in their lives to make them behave the way they do. With Trump, he has hurt so many people for his own (and other wealthy GOP members') personal gain, that it's really tough for me to find that empathy for him. Trump has shown us, time and time again, that he is willing to stoop to the lowest levels. Someone needs to stand up for Americans, and it appears that Congress won't, so I am thankful that James Comey was willing.
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All Trump wanted is to be accepted by the upper crust of Manhattan. It’s clear that no amount of bullying, lying and collusion will buy the elite respect he craves. (You too Kushner)
A timeless tragic tale—one that few born on third base kids learn. Even Putin had to work his way to the top—in a more vicious place—and so earned a kind of dark respect from his peers. Nobody will ever respect Trump and Kushner because they have no humility for their privilege.
This will not end well. There is no redemption for Trump because he is not a good person.
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Why would the RNC choose to enter the fray when they truly understand what is happening? They are revealing themselves to be dishonest brokers for the Republican Party, solely driven by the fear of losing power, rather than concerned about the integrity of our nation and its values. How can Republicans of strong conservative values continue to support this version of the RNC? So far there has been no evidence that the facts revealed are false. Yet rather than focus upon factual errors, the RNC has chosen to debate at the same low level as Trump, basically reducing their efforts to name calling and character assassination.
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Trump must know Comey is telling the truth. That's why he, the RNC, and the shills on Fox (Hannity, Gingrich, others) are trying so hard to take him down.
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I know his base wanted Trump to shake things up in Washington, but aren't these Twitter attacks just too much? Besides the tax cut and a quasi-wall - Love ya, National Guard! - what has he actually done for the American people?
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If Comey had admitted out right without shilly shallying around about his mistakes, I might believe what he says more than I do now. Honorable men do not need to wiggle and squirm to defend their honor. As it stands I do not know who to believe between these two and don't think it matters now.
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Comey may not be perfect--who is--but he is a public servant in the true sense of the term. All that Trump and the cynical GOP has stolen from the heart of our country can be restored if we follow the example of people like Mr. Comey.
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Trump has to be the most despicable person ever to have served as president. He spends much of his day tweeting, watching cable news, and getting policy and talking points from Fox and Friends. His presidency has been a quick and dirty lesson in the importance of showing up on election day to vote. When you don't, Trump is who you end up with. We should all be thankful as destructive as he has been, he is too ignorant and lazy to have accomplished total destruction of the U.S. At least so far.
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"Pot calls Kettle black" is not news, just like "Dog bites man" is not news.
Now a real news story like "Man bites dog" might be "Trump tells truth", even if he only did it accidentally. Or maybe "Comey admits he torpedoed Democrats in 2016 for Trump's favor", even if ungrateful Trump dumped him later.
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Anybody who doubts Trump's statement should read this. Nobody after making the statements Comey did could come to the conclusion she didn't intend to violate the law. I bet Hillary and Bill also didn't intend to steal White House furniture when he left office.
Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation. In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on e-mail (that is, excluding the later “up-classified” e-mails).
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How is what you said in any way a repudiation of Trumps statements regarding Comey? How does it in any way negate Comey’s assertions that Trump has “a casual relation to the truth”? The FBI’s finding concerning the Clinton emails are well known and the decision not to prosecute fully backed by precedent, but how does that make Trump somehow more trustworthy. And by this I don’t mean more trustworthy than Clinton, but actual worthy of anyone’s trust on anything.
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Irrelevant. The article concerns Comey and his connections to Trump. Hillary’s mistakes do not come close to the level of evil involved in Trump’s behaviour and that of his cronies.
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Using private servers by politicians has been common for a verrry long time. Colin Powell, Bush/Chenny/Rumsfeld/etc ran their White house emails through the RNC servers to hide their treasonous parade of lies to get us into the Iraq war.They used RNC laptops.. . So please spare me your faux outrage for HRC's use of a server to conduct day-to-day business. It's a nit. Get it. A non-issue. She wasn't lying us in Jr Bush's Iraq war
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Trump's go me thinking. It's time we Americans stop thinking so highly of ourselves and our place in the moral order of things and our place in history. Perhaps if we are honest and truly indulge sober reflection we might find and admit that Trump is no American aberration, we might admit that he is the supreme moral and political leader of 40% of the American people, a leader who was elected fairly under an esteemed and revered American system of government, we might then finally admit that Trump is the evolution of our darkest instincts I our politics. Perhaps then ALL of us would get serious and busy and try to to save what we have and while we all still have a country - that is home to ALL of us.
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I couldn't disagree more with your assessment that Trump is no aberration, that he was elected fairly, and that our government's election process is esteemed. Certainly not by me, as long as we have the Electoral College capable of forcing us to live with an unelected individual in office.
Our country has survived serious assaults from within during our history, so I am optimistic that we will survive this horrible assault on our already-great America. When we emerge from this train wreck of an administration -- with Trump as the quintessential reason -- we will remove ourselves from the antiquated and dangerous Electoral College. One person, one vote, I don't need middlemen.
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I think one of the OP's original points is that the Electoral College is an aberration, though he didn't say so explicitly. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) Sounds to me like we are all in what a friend called 'violent agreement.'
Think the only thing that's going to put an end to this game is for Mueller to go before the Grand Jury and request that Trump be issued a subpoena.
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Mr. Trump is behaving the way a small set of the American population wants him to - those people who feel left out and blame others for their predicament. They have no idea how interconnected our country is with the rest of the world, nor do they care. It's everyone else's fault that they are in the straits they're in. They want a piece of the money pie, no matter what it takes to get it. Read Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer" for a better description.
And the Republican leadership got what they want from Trump: more money for their backers at the expense of the middle and poor classes. So now they can go home and boast about their successes while leaving the rest of the country in turmoil.
It's time for a major reset and to hold these people accountable.
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I did not expect a mature reflective response from the current President. And sure enough.....
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70% of the American people want Muller to continue unimpeded by Donald Trump. If Congress does not protect Mueller, they and Trump will find themselves surrounded by millions, I said millions, of angry patriots.
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And that is a promise!
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Clearly, the President is spending too much time in front of a mirror...
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I do not understand. Comey's "leaking and lying" should be prosecuted but Scooter Libby gets a pardon???
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My wife would be very unhappy with me if I acted like Trump.
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This is making America great - name-calling?
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MAGA stands for Many Are Getting Arrested
"slim-ball" Has it really come to this? I really don't know how those of you who voted for this ignorant, small, narcissist can get up each day knowing what ypu have done. The same goes to those of you who simpky couldn't be bothered to vote. Sometimes we have to make hard choices between the lesser of two not great candidates. Our job is to hitch up our trousers, walk to thepolling place and pull the lever. The we have to live with what we have wrought.
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I think the funniest part of this article is Kellyanne Conway saying "After all, he was fired." As if that means anything in this administration.
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In a simpler time, Vice-President Pence would be getting himself fitted with a top hat.
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Looks like the GOP President’s wife isn’t having much success combating online bullying.
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For SouthernBoy. But you don’t mind Trump’s callous mishandling of government secret documents, his lying, his cursing of his colleagues, his belittling of our respected FBI, his racism, his abandonment of the clean air we desperately need, his inappropriate friendship with Russian and his perverse sexual behavior. How very very curious that you don’t mind this obscene behavior.
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Nice, real nice. And what is Ivanka doing in peru. If her father can’t do his job why is a unqualified overpriveleged mmmmm doing trotsing around the world representing herself in the guise of representing this country. Guess she needs a place to do her fashion walk.
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She’s looking for low-wage countries to fabricate her fashion clothing.
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"Republican allies of Mr. Trump’s have planned a counteroffensive and created a “Lyin’ Comey” website aimed at discrediting the former F.B.I. chief."
How shameful that that republican allies of the President are using Russian tactics on social media to discredit former FBI Director Comey.
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Helloooooo? Republicans? Anyone out there remember dignity? Want to speak up at any point?
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I think I speak for most of us when I say; Would somebody (Robert Muller) please put him (Trump) outa my misery!?
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Never has a public figure ever exposed his true nature so much by publicizing the people he respects and the people he hates. When Trump is angry, he regresses back to schoolyard language and behavior. Isn't it comforting to have this pathetic excuse for a human being as the leader of the free world?
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Mr. Comey will be remembered as one of the few who called out Trump for the degenerate liar con man that he is.
The day of reckoning will arrive. Eventually.
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Tony, Hillary got 3 million more votes. I'm pretty sure that's not a 'few.'
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One of the few? Most everyone in the free world knows that Trump is a conniving con man.
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Why doesn’t the Times refer to insults etc. on our President as ‘attacks’, but when Trump fights back he is consistently described as ‘attacking’. Just another small piece in the bias against conservatives in general and Trump in particular.
So Comey is not ‘attacking’ Trump, he is denouncing him, or writing a ‘searing, tell-all book’.
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He is reporting the actions of the President that speak for themselves. Reporting facts of the president's unsavory behavior, when reckless and endangering our country, is hardly an attack. Comey is being principled and responsible, two characteristics of his lifelong work. Calling someone a slimeball is neither principled nor responsible, but is characteristic of the President's lifelong work.
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Regarding the President's Twitter attack, Mr Comey, should consider an old saying, "Where there is flack, you must be over the target". Whatever is in that book must be pretty close to the truth
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I am not going to voice my opinion of Trump. There is enough screeching being done on all sides. What I have been doing and will continue to do is look forward to the mid term elections of 2018 and the elections of 2020 for responsible, responsive and informed government. I know I am not alone.
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I agree with you. Every American Citizen needs to vote in the 2018 Elections. We the People need to remove many irresponsible, unethical people from our government. We the People need to send a powerful message to all Senators, Congressional Representatives and Government Officials that they are employed to serve us responsibly, honestly and ethically.
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Will we all still be alive by then?
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Well, let's see... who is more credible?
A guy who comes from a law enforcement family background (grandfather "was an officer and later commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department."), "graduated from the College of William and Mary, majoring in chemistry and religion." And has spent most of his career in either law or law enforcement as a public servant when he could have made a WHOLE lot more money in private practice or staying in the private sector.
Versus a guy who was born into wealth, had EVERYTHING handed to him, got 5 deferments for "bone spurs" to avoid the draft, has been proven time and time again to be a liar, adulterer (3 wives & counting), semi-illiterate, takes credit for everything (coined the phrase "prime the pump") & accepts the blame or responsibility of nothing.
Hmmm? I don't know. It's a tough call.
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Just like the RNC to throw its weight around with Russian money filtered through many LLCs and groups. Maybe the reason for the show of anger is that they all are guilty of taking Russian filtered money and bribes and that is what is on Cohen's tapes. Why else would so many Republican turn their backs on its own people and its own country for a person like Trump? Citizen United needs to be the first then to be undone under a Democratic Congress, then Impeachment and Imprisonment and Investigations for all who tried to block investigations and reinstatement of all DOJ and FBI officials who were fired, let go or quit rather than be apart of the Fiasco of Corruption. "Nothing should be off the Table this time". If Congress had investigated Cheney, Bush and Karl Rove for starting an unnecessary war on Iraq, maybe wouldn't be here today with a President who has no honor and a world going up in flames over ideology, oil, wealth and religion, ignoring the millions of children, women and men who are losing their lives- caught in the middle of this insane behavior.
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It is interesting to note that the words Mr. President used to describe Mr. Comey are the same words majority of the people in this country ascribe to him.
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Once again, just apply the "Opposite Filter" to whatever Trump says, and it's a perfect description of himself.
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Yes. Projection is a common defense mechanism often used by those with personality disorders.
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It was interesting to read of Comey's report about a meeting after the 2016 election with O'Bama. According to him, O'Bama confirmed that he still saw Comey as a person of integrity. That Comey has the flaw of hybris is pretty apparent. Still, I do regard him as a person of service and integrity. While I completely disagree with his public reports on the eve of the 2016 election, I regard these actions as errors of judgment. There was no malice. Such errors happen to all of us, although rarely with such terrible consequences.
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Hilarious, all this from a man who prides himself on the fact that he doesn't read!
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He proudly said he hasn't read a book in 20 years. I have often wondered what will they put on the shelves of the Presidential library they build someday .
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The Leader of the Free World refers to a former official as an "untruthful slime ball ." Yet further evidence of the Decline of Western Civilization. The only thing more dismaying than this lamentable character is that so many millions of people voted for him.
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And, sadly, would vote for him again.
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Compared to Hillary Trumps looks pretty good.
I wish the press would stop encouraging Mr. Trump by constantly attending to his stupid tweets. If everyone would stop talking about everything Mr. Trump says or does, maybe he would grow bored of this new reality TV and start paying attention to his actual job.
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No Barbara, he is unlikely to ever pay attention to his actual job. It’s not his style.
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He only said he COULD act presidential...not that he WOULD. What an embarrassment.
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Well, big surprise, he lied.
Day by day it is unbearable to see this mean person in the white house! Only hope is November election.
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"...even as many Democrats struggled with conflicted feelings about the man they blame for Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election."
My enemy's enemy is not my friend.
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Trump's response is unsurprising and altogether predictable.
By choosing to implicate itself in the sliming of Comey, the RNC has made the conscious decision to descend into the sewer. The Republican Party is dead.
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The NRC cannot discredit what Comey knows and saw in Trump. The people that swear by Trump are mostly illiterate so they will not be reading Comey's book. Those that are literate will read it or read reviews and believe what Comey has to say because they have seen Trump for sixteen months and know what he is all about.
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Trump's right about Comey. He's a disgrace to America and should be prosecuted for perjury.
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And vice versa, speaking of vice.
ET to Trump
Don’t go after law enforcement guys when you have probably violated every possible law throughout your life. It seems like your time is up.
Look for cover if you can. Every dog has his own day but your day now is over. You picked up the wrong fight. Lucky for us
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You are so right I said when he fired Comey most of the FBI would make it their mission in life to uncover everything illegal and embarrassing he has ever done.
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And meanwhile, the one person who has some real power in this mess, Mitch McConnell, sits like a quivering jelly with his GOP colleagues and does exactly nothing. What kind of a patriot lets this happen to the people of his country?
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One with no guts...it is easier to say nothing and protect what little world you have. The GOP will never be known for courage, just the pretend patriotism they rode in on for a long time. Jig is soon up...onto 2018 and 2020. Vote them out.
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Almost always, Trump's ad hominem attacks on others who challenge, criticize or fail to support him are more appropriately applied to Trump himself. In addition to his many, many other character flaws, Trump clearly suffers from psychological projection, a common feature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. "Untruthful Slime Ball" sounds about right if you had to pick three words to describe the current President.
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I find it sadly amusing that 90% of what the leader of the free world tweets would not get published on any respectable moderated site because they are always and only ad hominem attacks. What an empty shell of a human he is. He seems to have psychologically arrested his mental and verbal development around the time he figured out his father didn’t love him. Ten, maybe? Oh well. Maybe he’ll get some therapy in prison.
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In the same day Trump vilifies one person accusing him of leaking classified information and then lying about it, while granting a full pardon for another person who was actually convicted of those very crimes.
unbelievable!
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Notice how Trump never attacks Stormy Daniel's attorney? That would be like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
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So sick of Trump’s elementary school level insults, isn't America better that this?
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I suppose if it truly were better than this, we wouldn't be dealing with "this" in the first place.
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If I were Comey, I'd be proud for Donald J. Trump to call me an "untruthful slime ball". Given Trump's procilivity for way over the top attacks, Comey must be conveying lots of accurate, reliable, insight into Trump to receive such a Monty Python-like response.
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I suppose if it truly were better that this, we wouldn't be going through "this" in the first place.
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as usual trump is at his most brave when hiding in the twitterverse. he would never say anything like that to comey in person...... but i wish he would!. he would go down hard and go down fast crying all the way.
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Since we have the equivalent of a kindergartener as president, what comes to mind is the old line we threw back at a belligerent bully tossing insults on the playground. "I'm rubber. You're glue. Bounces off me and sticks to you." When you're in a hole, Donnie, stop digging. Sadly, the only slimeball I see is...guess who?
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And in the middle of Trump's nasty tweets, chi a is making f serious economic and political inroads in South America. Internationally, we are in decline.
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As the little kids on the playground would always remind the bully - it takes one to know one.
Perhaps trump can go back to the playground for a remedial course - you know - Sandbox1.01, Manners 1.0, Respect 1.0, Dignity1.0
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The lack of dignity, respect and couth displayed by the occupant of the White House is an absolute disgrace. He has debased the office of the presidency so badly that I wonder if the country's reputation abroad will ever recover. He shows the maturity of a 5-year-old in his tit-for-tat insults. He makes me ill. I certainly hope the Mueller investigation turns up enough criminal/unethical activity to force this idiot out of office and into prison.
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Ah projection, Mr. President. You are the master.
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Just what a dying Empire needs: a President who lies, cheats, and steals.
Oh, right, we already had those.
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Only last month trump boasted at a dinner (in St. Louis?) how he lied to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about trade deficits, saying he didn’t know but just made the facts up. He boasted about lying to an ally! No matter what rump tweets, we all know who the lying slime ball is and intend to drive home the point in the midterms
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Republicans have a duty to save the country from this stable genius, a sociopath who will throw the country in to a war in order to distract from his many affairs and collusions with foreign entities.
Stand up to this con artist now ..or go down in history as traitors and collusionists. Doing nothing is doing something. Speak out and stand for our nations very principles, which are being eroded by the day.
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Our President is such a class act......
For Trump supporters, the above is an example of sarcasm..
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Have we had a President as disgraceful, unhinged, rude, and undignified as this one?
Every day brings new outrages.
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He who lives in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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Trump is much worse a 'leader' than I could ever have imagined, and I'd set the bar pretty low. And this man has the nuclear codes!!!
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most likely Russia has them as well.
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During 60 years on this planet, as a US citizen, I have never been so dismayed and disgusted by an administration. The bottom of the barrel has been scraped with this mob---it is a combination of shameful, disgraceful and extremely dangerous times for this country.
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While the slander from trump is expected, the Republicans have a team out to further slander Comey. Where are the real Republicans . . . those I used to vote for?
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I wonder how Paul Ryan will weigh in on this one? I am thinking he can't wait to get out of the Trump swamp.
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Jennifer Palmieri, we wouldn't be in this mess if YOUR boss hadn't thought the rules didn't apply to her. Hillary and her entourage should stop talking and step aside for others to defend democracy, because they obviously aren't doing it.
As for Trump, name-calling is all he has to go on. He still doesn't understand that the American people will not be enslaved.
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If 'name-calling' is all the POTUS has to go on, he shouldn't be POTUS.
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Apparently it wasn’t to focus on events in Syria that Trump skipped out on what should have been his role to represent the United States as the President of the United States addressing a host of important issues with Western Hemishere leaders in Latin America.
It was to counterpunch the release of Comey’s book and to undermine Mueller’s ( and now the US Attorney’s) ongoing investigation of violations of campaign finance (and many other) laws.
(And, of course, to play golf and to run up the Secret Service golf cart bill at Mar a Lago.)
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What a story! The plot twists! All this would be an insane car accident of a movie but the truth is, it's sad to see that one of the most powerful offices in the world capable of bringing about even a little bit of betterment got all of humankind is wasted. Utterly. Wasted.
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I would like to know who read the book to Trump because one knows he does not have the attention span to have read it himself.
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James Comey should have gone quietly into the sunset rather that writing this contemptible book on President Trump. This will only strengthen support for our president by his supporters. Mr. Comey is obviously bitter about his firing by Mr. Trump but this was an unwise move to write a tell all book about him. He has lost all dignity and respect and this will hurt him more than it will President Trump. He is looking to make a quick dollar but it will only ruin his reputation when all is said and done. What a pity that this once great man has stooped so low.
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I have to assume that you don't perform political analysis for a living?
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Quite the contrary. I wish more Republicans would have the spine to bring up the elephant in the room--that Trump is unfit to be President based on his moral and ethical turpitude. Those dupes still supporting Donald Trump, a compulsive liar, cheat and con artist, are the ones who don't deserve any respect.
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WPLMMT, James Comey likely doesn't give a rat's patutie about making a quick dollar. I guess you've never written a book (quick it's not), and Mr. Comey's net worth is about $14 million.
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So it begins. The final attack of the forces of Mordor.
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This is a real-life "Series of Unfortunate Events." Comey isn't lying, as Republicans contend, but his salacious book detracts from what we already knew: President Trump is unfit for office and likely will pay a heavy price once the Mueller investigation concludes. The problem is that Comey himself has little credability left after rushing to investigate Hillary days before the election. It all proved unfounded and likely was the crowning blow in her loss.
Indeed, Comey should have chosen his words much more carefully and steered clear of comments about such things as the president's weird hair and the mob boss comparisons, even if they are true. We already knew just how unsavory a character Trump was.
Now, though, we have Republicans lying themselves in rushing to produce "Lyin' Comey" segments. Instead of dealing in facts, they sling mud and put on a hit campaign no less outrageous than Comey's book. Talk about shameful.
So, Democrats, steer clear of comments about the book and keep your eye on the ball in doing all you can to unseat Trump before more damage to the country is done.
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I thought these Republicans were resolutely in favor of law-and-order. After all, their core mission has been to object to the improper documentation of migrants who come to our country to work hard in our fields, restaurants, hotels, homes and elsewhere, performing jobs that no Americans are willing to take. But the Fox Crowd has been upset by their failure to comply with existing immigration laws. "The law is the law," they bellow, "and that is why we must harm these families and undermine our own economy by deporting all of them and building an immense wall along the (already militarized) southern border. It has nothing to do with our primitive white-identity politics. Really. We believe that the law is sacrosanct."
I guess they are utter hypocrites on this matter too, just like they are on balanced budgets.
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Robert Mueller was appointed because of what happened to James Comey. In my book that makes Comey an American Hero.
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Comey is 180 degrees away from Trump on the morality (and maturity) compass. But he's an excellent example of why extreme anything isn't good. We have Comey's dainty conscience to blame for a fatal 11th hour blow to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign that made it possible for Trump to win. He gave us President Trump, in other words. Thank you, James Comey.
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Thank God Comey has a conscience and the legal duty to inform us citizens about impending investigations regardless of whom it impacts. He was "concern'ed' about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation".
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The Republicans, the FakeFoxNews screamers and the Sinclair bots are carpet bombing the credibility of their uncorrupted Republican colleagues at the FBI and the Justice Department. It´s all vague and baseless accusations to Comey and the FBI, while providing devious and delusive cover for the Mafia nest of villains at work in the current U.S. gov.
I can't say how impressed and humbled I am by lives exemplary spent in meticulous dedication to service to service the good fate of vulnerable, exploited people and of our common assets. It also shows the positive long game impact of dignified teaching and writing (in contrast to duplicitous sensationalism and sneaky trolling, servicing the dark purposes of the unquenchably psycho and greedy). As long as people manage the long march through the institutions without compromising core values and morality, there's hope for humanity.
People with a moral compass in places of power seem so rare in today's world, that anyone emerging makes one's soul melt. To raise good people and to allow them to ripen and come to terms with all the trash around, we need to invest so much more effort and capacities, and still they encounter so much hurdles and are held back and down massively, and only if they're lucky they still get to live in a basement while trapped in a cost- and debt-prison. So thumbs up to anyone morally impeccable and incorruptible and staying so while miraculously granted entrance to and maintaining a career of public service!
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DJT once again demonstrating that having all the $$ in the world wouldn't give a person class. Real class is...
Comey writes that Obama sat alone with him in the Oval Office in late November and told him I picked you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability. I want you to know that nothing — nothing — has happened in the last year to change my view.”
On the verge of tears, Comey told Obama, “Boy, were those words I needed to hear . . . . I’m just trying to do the right thing.”
“I know,” Obama said. “I know.”
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Once again, if Trump is accusing anyone of anything -- in this case, *untruthful slime ball* -- you can be sure that he is guilty of the very thing for which he is accusing someone.
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Slime ball. Really. I''d say a slime ball is someone who has sex with porn stars and cheats on his wives. Oh, maybe also someone who lies so often it's almost impossible to count the lies.
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"Trump Attacks Comey, Calling Him ‘Untruthful Slime Ball’"
The irony of a president, who has had fact-checkers working overtime because of his estimated 6 whoppers per day, calling anyone ‘Untruthful Slime Ball’ is rich in every possible way, but especially in what it says about this president's total lack of self-awareness...
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How ironic that President Trump is planning to pardon a "proven Leaker & Liar" — convicted perjurer Scooter Libby.
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"Untruthful slime ball," my how presidential. Our president is doing his best to bring all of America down into the gutter in which he lives, and his base seems quite happy to go there.
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Kellyanne Conway, one of Mr. Trump’s advisers, hit on the same theme.
“We find that Mr. Comey has a revisionist view of history and seems like a disgruntled ex-employee,” Ms. Conway said on Friday. “After all, he was fired.”
After all, All After Comey...so many Administration Staff and Officials , have been fired. After all them more are sure to follow and after all have left, after all...there won't be anyone left ...After All is said and done.
After All.
And after All who have been fired (and after all the many more who will be fired) how can "After all, he was fired" serve as ANY reason or explanation for ANYTHING concerning almost everyone fired by Trump, when it has been Trump who has fired them whilst lacking most reason, sanity and a complete lack of any Validity that under normal standards of employment would actually require a strong explanation as to why and even allowed to be done.
And to mirror Conways words to reveal what is AFTER ALL the Truth:
"We find that Mr. Trump has a revisionist view of history and seems like just a selfish, egocentric disgruntled Employer yet again,”
"After all, he was firing"
After which, he is always firing off Tweets against those he fired.
After All...He is Trump.
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Brilliant!!!
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I would not be afraid to buy a used car from Comey. That's how I see the two.
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The only people who believe anything Trump says are the 40% of Americans who make up his base. The rest of know exactly who the untruthful slime ball is.
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I do not vote re party designation but tor whom has belief and action in the public interest. Government was created BY the people and For the people. Democracy holds a delicate balance between chaos and dictatorship.. In the past the public schools taught us what happened to the ancient Greeks and Romans when they no longer had public participation. NOW they are limited in what they can say and teach.. I do not know how we reached this terrible point in the federal government,- Congress as well as the Presidency. We have an important free Press but the Publishers are in the business of selling newspapers. Rare are the not-for-profits getting involved in a non-partisan way, except for the League of Women Voters. We the voters are to blame as it takes time to inform ourselves and even to vote. I have been in government and know how difficult it is and that it is not accepted happy social conversation. My father after elections always told me not to worry and things would get better, but he is no longer here and I am not so sure.
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Public schools don't teach civics anymore because standardized testing doesn't test that subject.
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I believe most people who were voting for Trump or against Hilary had made up their minds before the email probe was re opened.
The messaging on social media and nonstop Trump on the television had a bigger impact.
The outrageous things he said give him more free coverage than any other candidate, precisely because it drew ratings, not because he had any concrete policy information to discuss.
Any other Republican candidate was boring in comparison, and too many people already decided they didn't like Hilary.
When the final choice came in November, it was between a Democratic woman they didn't like and a perceived maverick who would "shake things up".
Well, I guess he's shaking them up, all right.
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We all saw this coming. In another publication similar to this one, I commented that it would propably take the form of a tweet. And I think I may have been right about the twitter bots too; at the time of this writing, his tweets on the subject have each garnered less than 90k 'likes', bots very likely, most of them.
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I realize that this is the wrong place to write this, but, aside from the lovely sentiments of our leader, Comey, who I used to respect a lot, really let everyone down. His behavior was not admirable or professional. First, whatever you think about Clinton, his making that announcement about her investigation was apparently unprecedented and bizarre. Second, he described someone who committed a crime that people go to jail for, even with no bad intent. He added intent to it all on his own. It's not in the statute. When you are entrusted with special rights and responsibilities concerning national security, recklessness counts, and clearly she was that. It's not that I I cared if she was prosecuted (I had no opinion until Comey spoke), but he described in such a way that it seemed very partisan (I know he's technically an R) to give her a pass, on top on her husband's visit to Lynch - which sounds more like obstruction of justice than anything I've heard about Trump. Then, his letter to Congress shortly before the election - I don't even understand why he thought that was a good idea. Then, his dealings with Trump, as he described them and himself, showed him very weak, where you would have expected more, and also paranoid. His notes - why are those his and not the FBIs? - his leaking them to a friend - his claim to be intimidated by the president (i don't believe that) are all disappointing to me.
Not a Trump supporter. I was a Comey admirer. But, I'm very disappointed.
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Trump, RNC and friends are pushing the notion of James Comey's book as the inevitable story of a former employee disgruntled as a result of having been fired. It is obviously a cheap shot. Yes there is a lot of "he said she said" sort of stuff here. And though it is still a riddle as to just what Comey's true opinions are and just exactly where in the political spectrum his allegiance is located, other than nominal Republicanism, one thing is irrefutable: he is giving us a vision of Trump which is basically consistent with what others have also reported. No sensible person subscribes to the notion that Trump has somehow been terribly wronged by Comey just because Comey rejected an unhallowed request that he essentially act as Trump's personal sort of FBI director carrying out whatever Trump wanted him to do. Rather the shoe is on the other foot. Trump cannot, probably never can, take the high moral ground. I think even his supporters would probably acknowledge that. Trump is celebrated by them not so much for his personal probity but because he is perceived as espousing certain popular (but not necessarily grounded in reality) beliefs and is perceived as being willing to act on those beliefs however repugnant such beliefs may be to those with more generosity, kindness and tolerance in their nature. Indeed Trump would happily kick the latter in the face. It is who our president is. It is what our democracy has produced after 242 years of evolution.
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its interesting watching the Republicans turn on each other. The other evening, Lou Dobbs was ranting and raving about an F.B.I. that has been out of control for years. Yet, last year when the same F.B.I. was investigating Hillary, FOX had nothing but praise for Comey and his integrity. Jeanine Pirro personally vouched for his integrity and honor. But as soon as he came up empty handed regarding Hillary, he was considered out of control, deep-state, a Hillary plant, etc.
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What kind of language is this for any respectable political or world leader to use, let alone the President of the United States? Every one of the past presidents of this nation has to be either deeply embarrassed (if alive) or spinning in their graves (if deceased). If this is what our so-called forgotten citizens envisioned when they voted Trump in or wish to defend now that he is president, shame on them. If you have this little respect for yourselves and your country to have such an individual represent you, how can you expect anyone else to respect you or what you think, experience, feel or believe?
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About the only thing separating Mr. Trump from Captain Queeg is a set of Navy khakis, two ball bearings, some ice cream and Fred MacMurray. We can only hope that General Mattis and others of conscience and courage in our government will exercise those character traits in their interactions with the president.
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Since Donald doesn't like to, or can't, read, according to reports from those who watch him, Comey's book excerpts must have been read to him.
I think I'd enjoy seeing the video of the faces of the reader and of President Dennison as it was read aloud.
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So the arguments against Comey are: he's a liar, a leaker, a disgruntled an employee, a grandstander, a publicity-seeking show-boater? Let's examine that logically. If you were someone who sought out the spotlight, what profession would you choose? A job in law enforcement? Hmm. I would think their chosen profession would be a TV personality or a musician, or maybe perhaps a politician or a CEO.
Anyway, it's interesting that Mr. Trump has held 3 of these 4 professions at some point in his life.... If only he could sing. ;)
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He'll sing when he is called before the courts and be facing jail time.
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And the RNC is backing & magnifying The Conman's attacks on yet another U.S. security & intelligence professional. The GOP is bankrupt & all who belong to it must be voted out of office.
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Obviously the Russians have the tape. If T were innocent of this horseplay, he wouldn't have asked Comey to clear him, because he'd know for a fact there was no video evidence, unless it was fabricated, which he's never suggested. Instead, he's (rightly) worried that people will believe the rumors. That's an indictment of his character right there.
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We do all realize that there is no way Trump has even read the book..?
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Comey knew that if he described Trumps appearance in an unfavorable way, basically putting onto the record what we all see so clearly with our own eyes, Trump would lash out and expose himself on Twitter. Well played. Just wish he would have said something about the Trump/Russia thing the same day he roasted Hillary just before the election. If he had maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.
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In an earlier comment I said I support President Trump’s comments about Comey and in reply a reader asked why I support Trump. I support Trump for the simple reason that he is not Barack Hussein Obama nor Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is politically unlike them, but more important his not like them as people. I abhor arrogant liberals like Obama nor Clinton; they simply make me sick. I especially loathe Clinton for her deliberately callous handling of classified information as Secretary of State. As one who worked in the federal government safeguarding that kind of information, I know what she did was felonious, in fact, as far as I am concerned, treasonous. She should be in jail as would any other government employee who handled classified information as she, sending electronically across an unsecure email system. Instead she is running around free as a bird still holding said security clearance. That is an outrageous disgrace, but one which is dismissed by liberal, progressive, and permissive government of Obama/Clinton. Comey is responsible for not bringing her to justice. Also Clinton should be in jail for destruction of government records, the deletion of emails pertaining to Benghazi, which was done after being subpoenaed to present them to a government committee, which is obstruction of justice. Thank you.
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What about all the other politicians, including Republicans, who have also used unsecured email servers? Shouldn't they be investigated and prosecuted? Don't let your hatred of one person blind you.
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As a fellow Tennessean, I would like to disassociate myself from the foul stereotype presented here. Most urban Tennesseans find it embarrassing. It's also infuriating, because people like this writer are always ready to pull themselves from under their bridge and make the rest of us look like stupid, hackneyed haters.
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You support Trump because he's not this other person that you despise.
So you have no real reason to support Trump. Your spite for Obama is not a valid reason to support Trump. You have no real reason to support Trump. You have vitriol, anger and nothing else.
And besides, why not cut Comey some slack here? He handed the election to the guy you have no reason to support.
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White House Dining Room mantel inscription: "...May None But Honest and Wise Men Ever Rule Under This Roof" - John Adams
May we, the people, do all that we can to elect wise, honest men and women to be future occupants of the Presidency and the White House.
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We also have to insist that Congress pass laws to control other corrupt people like Trump. Every presidential candidate should be required by law to release his or her tax returns. And every high-level member of the administration, including the president, should be required to reveal and END any conflicts of interest or be turned out of office. We never expected anyone as dishonest as Trump to get to the White House, but we have to acknowledge from now on that it could happen. We have to make sure the country is protected.
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I’m just sick and disgusted with all the hateful vitriol on both sides of the isle. We Americans deserve better! Please for our country, our safety, our peace of mind stop and get to work on things that really matter - hunger, homelessness, education to name a few. As we live this short life trying to find the happiness we deserve with friends, family, community and country let us move forward with the precious knowledge that we are all this together!
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Anything this country once stood for has been reduced to reality TV. We're done.
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Nice bit of irony there to quote Ms. "Alternate-fact" Conway. So she'd have believe that it is Comey who has "a revisionist view of history?" Ha! I love it, that's too funny. I wonder that she can say these things with a straight face at all.
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It is indisputable... Comey did lie under oath. Comey did leak confidential information to the press. Comey did abuse his office. Comey did poorly handle and prosecute cases against the Clintons (though it was probably intentional for political reasons). Comey was involved in using a dossier bought and paid for by an opposing political party to illegally obtain FISA warrants to spy on Trump, first as a presidential candidate, then President-elect. This makes Comey guilty of perjury, FISA Court fraud, abuse of power, obstruction of justice, treason and sedition, just for starters. I think Comey should be spending one with his lawyers instead of doing the book tour should stop hyper-focusing on the size of Trumps hands and start looking at cold hard facts about this very bad cop.
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Your "indisputable facts" are neither indisputable nor facts.
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Nothing, absolutely nothing, not one scintilla or syllable of what you say is true.
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Then I assume you must believe anyone who was charged by the FBI during his and McCabes time heading the FBI must immediately have all charges dropped and they should be released. If they were both liars according to Trump and you, then anyone who was swept up during their running of the department must have any charges brought on them to be null and void. You can not claim that an agency who was headed by liars has any reputation for honesty in charging individuals besides the President. Do you believe the agency only lied and framed Trump? Is that what you are advocating?
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That response came as the Republican National Committee orchestrated an all-hands effort to discredit Mr. Comey by distributing lengthy talking points to conservative pundits, sympathetic media hosts and Republican lawmakers.
Seems to me their taking points are also a projection of their commander in chief's behavior on a daily basis....
The talking points describe Mr. (Comey) TRUMP as a “disgraced (former) official” and a “consummate Washington insider who knows how to work the media to protect his flanks.” (It says that Mr. Comey) TRUMP was “strongly criticized by members of both parties for his history of bizarre decisions, contradictory statements, and acting against Department of Justice and F.B.I. protocol.” Trump is a disaster GOP, and you are to blame. The Republican National Committee has destroyed the Republican party for good.
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Our adolescent in chief goes ballistic. I doubt that I could read Comey's book, though, given that he practically handed the election to Trump. It would just be too painful.
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The national embarrassment isn't Trump - it's a two party system that is so corrupt that the opposition could not put up a candidate capable of defeating Trump, whose record and character was well known prior to the election.
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She did win the popular vote. Wiki-leaks? DNC email leaks (but note no RNC email leaks)? Russian contributions to the NRA...
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I hope I´m around long enough to see how history will evaluate Mr. Trump´s presidency and the forces that helped shape his rise to power.
It´s unbelievable that this foul monster represents us on the global stage.
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The language and character of the President can not help but reflect poorly on the United States. Our choice of leader can not help but make these rest of the world question the wisdom of Americans. The legacy of Mr. Trump will be to call-into-question the suitability of the U.S. as leader of the free world.
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Count me as one who isn't interested in getting on the Comey bandwagon. Intentionally or not, he did serious harm to Clinton's campaign.
His July 2016 press conference about closing the email investigation had a lot of unnecessary editorializing about Clinton. Law enforcement shouldn't be in the business of maligning people at the same time as announcing there isn't evidence to bring criminal charges against them.
In that context, the October 2016 decision to send a letter to Congress about 're-opening' the email investigation two weeks before the election stinks to high heaven. Comey's letter changed the course of the election and the basis for it proved to be nothing. Nothing of new evidentiary value was found on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
If one were to identify one single variable that very likely would have changed the outcome of the election it would be the October Comey letter. If it hadn't been written, Clinton probably would have won the Electoral College in addition to the popular vote and she would be President today.
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It was a break from protocol, as I understand it, that a press conference was held to announce the verdict re the 'email investigation'. I listened to Comey speak and found his tone of voice condescending - as though he were scolding HRC. This received news coverage. The letter regarding emails on Abedin's laptop -without even checking their content -was outrageous. Comey dropped the ball - he should not even have mentioned the letter UNLESS he also mentioned that the Trump campaign was being investigated by the FBI. The public never knew about the FBI investigation of Trump before the election.
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jb you act like you think Comey had a choice to keep silent. He did not. He had only one duty: to inform us of the impending new investigation asap.
Huh. After careful deliberation I remain unconvinced by Mr. Trump's -- eloquent though it might be -- argument.
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This is unbelievable and totally unacceptable. How is this man still in office?
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Projecting! Primitive psychological defences are projection, denial, dissociation or splitting and they are called borderline defence mechanisms. ... The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association (1994) includes a tentative diagnostic axis for defence mechanisms.
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I don’t think Comey has much integrity (so don’t much too much stock in his version of the story) but why can’t Trump not react and just keep his mouth shut? He behaves like a child.
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It seems you have not looked into the Comey matter or you would know that he is a man of great integrity.
Shame! Don’t speak when you are ignorant of the facts.
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By comparison, and as a reality check, how would you rate Trump's integrity?
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Trump is desperate, and he's taking disastrous steps to gut the Intelligence Arm, and subjugate it to protect himself. It will amount to a coup. This cannot stand!!
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As a Saudi, we've an old saying " don't sleep in the cemetery, and you, Mr. Trump, won't see nightmares"
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Can you name a president in our lifetime who spoke like this in public?
No. Just confirms a long pattern of such bully boy nonsense.
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He sounds like a mob boss trying to impugn the honesty of the choir boy testifying against him.
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How very presidential. This is projection at its worst. Trump calling anyone a leaker and a liar is just being a bully. I am embarrassed for my country.
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Every time we think that Trump can't get anymore immature, crude, coarse and disgusting , he sinks to a new low. He is an embarrassment to any American with an IQ north of 85. To think he holds the office of FDR, Lincoln, Washington,etc, is disheartening and depressing .
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The RNC has become an extension of Fox News, which bis why I am no longer a Republican.
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"Untruthful Slimeball".....but that is Trump describing Trump.....and that really
is a truthful self-revelation of Trump....so for once he has actually told the
truth...about himself....yes Trump is having an A Ha Moment....about Trump.
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I abhorred many of President Obama’s policies, but I will always appreciate his character. What a difference a year makes. From daily sophistication to daily name calling like slime ball.
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From an office where such great and dignified statements have come -
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself..."
"Ask not what your country can do for you..."
"Tear down that wall..."
We can now add
"He is a weak and untruthful slime ball..."
What a pathetic state we are in to have a man who attacks all of the entire American legal system to protect himself. Sadder still are the number of Republicans who either support him or do nothing.
Remember, SILENCE IS APPROVAL, GOP.
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Trump is surely the type of guy who would have been a collaborator in the camps.
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Yes, Mr. Comey has his faults. But Mr. Trump has so many vulnerabilities at this point that its almost a TKO. He has lost any semblance of credibility, his only defense consisting of "fake news", "many people have said ...", no press conferences (only campaign rallies), tweets based on Fox News biased reporting, abrupt eruptions about his persecution when discussing war, etc. etc. Mr. Trump is unfit to be POTUS and a danger to our country.
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At the risk of making light of a serious problem, Trump is looking more and more like a character out of Charles Dickens than a shrewd autocrat. His enablers can't prop him up much longer.
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The closer someone gets to the truth about Trump the more juvenile his tweets get. Comey's book is right on right on target.
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That both the Democrats and Republicans have a mad on for Comey strongly suggests that he is doing a great job.
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Quick, how many of you believe #45 will actually read Comey's book... or any book for that matter?
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I seriously don't believe that Trump reads. He'll depend on Fox News to tell him what's in the book. He'll then react as though he DID read the book. He won't read it.
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As has always been the case for/with/because of trump (small case intentional), whatever comes out of his mouth on a "hit back" is a perfect reflection of himself.
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Disgruntled fired employees often have an ax to grind. Comey did handle the Clinton email investigation poorly. But he should never had been put in that position. Hillary owes him an apology. But don't hold your breath for that.
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also a "gigantic dummy pants", and a "big, fat, poopy-head", for good measure. Then he stuck his tongue out.
Just another day in the Oval office.
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You made my day! Thank you.
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If both parties do not like him, that means he has done his job. He is not without flaws, but who is? The fact that he acknowledges his shortcomings makes me trust him and what he says.
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He has NEVER admitted a shortcoming!
So much irony:
Baghdad Bob Huckabee Sanders accusing someone else as "lacking credibility".
And Trump University/Trump Casino/Porn Plugging/Trump Airlines/NJ General owner/Racially discriminating President Dennison calling anyone else a "sliime ball".
This just keeps getting better.
Wait .....
what about the 24 to 48 hour decision on our beautiful "smart" missile barrage of the Ruskies and Animal Assad?
Help us Bobby Mueller
you are our only hope
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Even Trump's toadies are going to start seeing the light. What an infantile whiner he is.
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Our President's idea of discourse: nyah nyah nyah nyah nah. Perhaps we need to establish mental age before allowing candidates to run for President... must be >6 years old.
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What a baby!
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In the interests of fairness, I went looking for a book from one of Mr. Trump's former White House associates (and there are so MANY of them!) that would give me the reassuring, positive portrait of the President's character and his first year. Oddly enough, I couldn't fine any.
Whodathunkit?
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What is done, is done. It was very wrong when Comey made the statement about Hillary Clinton resulting our country into what it is - lawless, without checks and balances,racist at war with friends and foes alike. We are no more the trustworthy, leader of the world, keeper of everything good and moral. But we cannot put Hillary back in spite of her win. Therefore, the Democrats although resentful of Comey should support him now because he perhaps could bring Trump down more easily than Special Counsel, Robert Mueller and Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein who can be fired by this unscrupulous President anytime. Besides Comey cannot be fired. And that is Comey's power. The Democrats should be looking to the future instead.
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To my fellow Democrats who find that they can't forgive James Comey for how he handled the HC e-mail probe, particularly his revelation late in the campaign about e-mails being discovered on the Abedin/Weiner laptop, all I can say is that we need to get over it. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and Comey is providing one more convincing portrayal of Donald Trump as a vulgar, vindictive, narcissistic liar. He has caused the President of the United States to become so unhinged that he has resorted to calling the former director of the FBI a "slimeball". This stuff is priceless! Sure, it may be red meat for Trump's base, but for anyone else it's one more revelation of how unfit Trump is for the office that he holds. Besides, put yourself in Comey's shoes back in October of 2016. Suppose you're being told that more HC e-mails have been found on an unsecure computer. He had to say something publicly about them, because if he sat on them and they turned out to be damning, the public interest would not have been served and he would have been crucified. As it was, the investigation of those e-mails was wrapped up relatively quickly before Election Day and they were announced to be copies of e-mails that were previously found to be innocuous. Did Comey's first announcement drive enough undecided voters to Trump to get him elected? We'll never know, but, again, what would you have done?
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Nothing, same as he did when he learned about the Steele Dossier
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From a man who almost always lies through his store bought teeth on any given subject and an FBI Director that is regarded with the highest esteem both within the FBI and by the citizens of this country.... just whom do you believe to be the lying slimeball ?
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Our Middle School Bully "president" is back to calling those who cross him (and perhaps dare to speak the truth) names. Let the crashing and burning begin, though hopefully he doesn't take all of us with him.
What a baby.
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So this is Comey’s Woodward and Bernstein moment?
Welp, that leaves Meuller...
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Comey is not part of Mueller's investigative team. Nobody was expecting a Woodward and Bernstein moment from Comey. We were expecting truth and detail about the Con Man in Chief in so far as Comey had experienced them.
Of course Comey is not part of the Mueller investigative team. But Mueller is now the Dems last hope to bring down Trump. Maybe you were not expecting a Woodward and Bernstein moment from Comey, but I know a lot of people who were.
Moreover, I know a lot of people who are trying to MAKE this a Woodward and Bernstein moment.
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If Trump is calling Comey an untruthful slime ball. then real truth Comey is a truthful, honorable man.
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Our Commander in Chief!
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Poor Melania, she really should have picked some other cause to champion besides bullying. With the bully-in-chief at her side, she'll never have any credibility whatsoever.
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Next up will be the interviews and tell-all books from the Russian prostitutes. Sigh. Cannot wait to vote all these scoundrels out. Voters need to do some serious house cleaning.
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Trump defining "untruthful slime ball" and Sarah Sanders lecturing on "credibility." Irony is indeed wasted on the stupid.
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I couldn't help but think of Hamlet's famous soliloquy, in which he refers to "a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours". That's about the sum total of #45, a murky collection of odiferous (in both senses of the word) and poisonous gasses. A slimeball is too cohesive, though equally offensive. A slimeball can be picked up and contained, with difficulty. A congregation of vapours has a way of escaping capture... I hope that Mueller has a way to catch it.
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We expect this from the president, but the RNC should be ashamed of themselves. Comey served honorably under republican administrations. What is wrong with people?
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Thank you to Comey. A person able to be simple and honest.
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It will be my great honor to vote Trump and his cronies out of office.
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Comey's book is an example of why we are still a free people. First Amendment: The right to tell your truth. Can't say you didn't know.
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The Presidency has been reduced to some bizarre combination of professional wrestling, tabloid sleaze, and reality TV - 24/7 with no off switch. Donald needs to hit the golf course again, and just stay there as much as possible...
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Fox News is undermining the rule of law in our country. It has become the propaganda tool of a corrupt administration. I call for a boycott of companies that advertise on Fox News.
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well, the anti-Trumpers are out in strength -- even though Comey is out there trying to make a buck off of his mishandling of things as FBI director and assaulting Trump apparently. In Oct 2016 every prog on the planet hated Comey, but now he is some kind of heroic figure? Seriously? He insults the sitting president in his book, trying yet again to undermine him, but that's perfectly fine? I for one won't be buying his book.
Maybe a person having conflicting views is a forgien concept to you, but I'm here to tell you that the world isn't just all black or all white. It can be both, or shades of grey. All it requires is a willingness to use reason.
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Victoria -- how insightful....
Not all “anti-Trumpers” are seeing only what they want to see.
Clear eyes look at everyone clearly.
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There are those who think this mess is all Comey's fault. Clinton made many mistakes - the election should not have been close enough for Comey to make a difference - but he did make a difference. The only atonement for that sin lies in exposing every illegal thing Trump or his supporters have ever done.
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I'm amazed at how quickly and throughly some Republicans are to jettisons their supposed values and principles to lionize a strong-man bully to further their agenda. Apparently lying, deceit and oppression of opposing viewpoints are fine if it inches their 'cause' forward.
Republicans act almost like they live in an America occupied by a hostile foreign power, the Democrats.
I'm pretty sure I would NEVER support ANY democrat (during routine times) that displayed such abject lack of character.
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The web is closing in and tweets won't prevent closure and judgment. This infantile "reign" will soon pack his traveling circus and move on, but not without the whimpering and temper tantrums.
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U.S. president Trump is really laying into the former head of the FBI who was of course a lawyer. As much as president Trump likes to cut down the press he may have been influence by the writings of newspaper publisher Edward W. Scripps "The lawyers are known to be liars. They know they are known to be liars. They constantly practice falsehood and false pretense. From among these men we select our judges."
The presidency of the United States has become a reality TV show.
Everyone knows that producers encourage conflict on those shows in pursuit of high ratings. Show participants oblige by behaving badly. This show is destroying our country.
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I wonder what Trump's father did to him to make Donald so dysfunctional, so totally self-absorbed and dismissive of truth.
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Watching the US from next door is frightening, truly frightening. Our current Prime Ministers’s father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau said, “Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
We are now living next to a very different beast, one that is no longer friendly or even tempered. It is governed by a mad, mercurial liar and a Republican Party of moral misfits who have sold their souls to this madman. We can trust not one word that issues forth from your President’s gob. It is impossible to negotiate with him because nothing he says, no agreement, no position is secure for more time than his capricious brain can formulate another tweet. And whatever the spasmodic thrashing of this decidedly unfriendly and unpredictable beast, the moral vacuum at the GOP does nothing. Grand Old Party indeed, ly’in Comey they proudly announce in their newest website that illustrates the moral vacuum in which they live.
Europe, China, Australia, have the enviable position of distance from this thrashing behemoth, but we risk destruction and we have no way of escaping. I fear for our nation, or economy and our well being.
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Doug
As one who did not vote for said beast, I understand your angst. This too will pass and I fervently hope our Fall election results will frustrate his every effort, and that he resigns in a hissy fit.
And it will take time for world leaders to trust our government again....
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most people believe comey's account is truthful, regardless of what they think of him. and most people believe trump is not capable of telling the truth. the name-calling is typical but irrelevant.
comey's greater point is that america has a very serious problem, with trump as president, and that is what we should focus on, as we ask republican members of congress whether they have the spine and patriotism to do anything about it.
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Scrap the 22nd Amendment and re-elect Obama.
Nothing would send Trump over the edge quicker than having to run against Obama and losing. Furthermore, who else has the intelligence and integrity to clean up and repair the disasters created by Trump and his cabinet, while bringing back decency and family values?
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Perhaps he will backtrack on Comey just as he is backtracking on NAFTA now. Can Comey sue him for defamation?
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Wow, such diplomacy from our leader, so what bounced off Comey sticks on him like glue, with taunting that is first grade school yard language. When will the tirade end? We the People are tired of the nasty language and more. Comey made big mistakes in underestimating the situation in the political arena of the 2016 election. He is not innocent of short and narrow thinking and judgment, but he was not willing to sell the country out. We the People need to do what is right in the voting booth.
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Michelle Obama-
"When they go low, we go high."
James -Stay civil on the book tour. The collective wisdom of the majority of the country says you are version of events is spot on.
When the facts are not on your side attack the fact finders. Play No. 2 in the Trump playbook. (Play No. 1-Fake news, folks, fake news.). This is Trump being Trump. No need to volley with him.
I am starting to feel a little bit of rumbling by the sensible House/Senate Republicans that impeachment/removal may be reachable.
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"We The People" elected Mrs. Clinton.
But the republicans appointed Trump instead.
"We The People" elected Obama to fill the next vacant seat on the Supreme court. But McConnell stole it from us and gave it to their "President appointed" to fill.
This is going very badly for America.
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I can not believe that Trump has the nerve to call anyone untruthful. However, with Trump all things are possible.
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Wondering how much Trump supporters still believe, some?, a little?,
all of what Trump says? Wish his supporters would tell us.
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His supporters WILL tell you, but not here. Take a trip to Breitbart if you REALLY want to know. As far as your "still believe" question, I'd say "most". It IS really far worse than you think.
In addition to everything else (today's list alone is too long to detail), is anyone else mortified that the purported Leader of the Free World is using language that would make eight-year-olds blush?
NOT my president
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I guess there is no longer any doubt that what Comey says is the absolute truth.
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The Democrats need to support Comey's fights against Trump and his cronies. A gift from Heaven for the 2018 mid-terms. Comey didn't cause Hilary's loss. It was Trump's connection with Putin's intelligence networks.
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Jeez, slimeball is soo 70's
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Trump's infantile comments on James Comey's forthcoming book are not exactly what an objective, dispassionate observer would characterize as presidential. Notice that there are plenty of self-demeaning adjectives, but zero substantive rebuttal.
The man is going down.
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Wait'll he goes on the book tour!
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At the beginning of DJT’s love affair with the TV camera, he and Ivana would frequent the afternoon talk shows in order to boost ‘The Donald’s’ media profile. They happened to appear on The Mike Douglas Show along with Mary Jo Buttafuoco, whose own brush with infamy came at the hands of her husband and his teenage girlfriend, dubbed the ‘Long Island Lolita’ after she shot Mary Jo, supposedly at Joey Buttafuoco’s urging. Mary Jo seemed truly conflicted as to how complicit Joey may have been in her shooting. An affair is bad enough to wrestle with, but the thought that her husband wanted this girl to shoot her was obviously tormenting.
Donald listened respectfully to Mary Jo which is a far cry from what we now see and then said to her, “If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then guess what, it’s a duck,”.
I posit that Mr. Comey has determined the same conclusion when it comes to the president, only now we see someone whose skin is so thin as to appear translucent. His venomous temperament which includes daily if not hourly tirades will continue to curdle as more attention is paid to Mr. Comey’s book and his insightful observations.
Now the tables have turned and you, Mr. President are the one being called out for who you are. How does it feel?
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So much for control. Even the base is beginning to have doubts now.
The conservative counteroffensive against Mr. Comey has been preempted with a spoiling attack by the leakers.
The more conservatives gibber and howl, the more of Mr. Comey's books will be purchased.
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I am a believer in liberal democracy who believes the only way to get America back on the road to liberal democracy is truth and nothing but truth.
The only place I see truth being examined is the debate about the work of Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson.
I understand Donald J Trump because I have spent much of my life around many Donald J Trumps and the James Comeys of this world don't live in my world and don't understand my world. James Comey is a conservative's conservative. I do not understand the need for a universe where everything has a place and time. I have never warn a watch or felt a need to take meticulous notes on what is said because I understand words are translated into our personal interpretation as they are spoken.
I am 70 years old and know I could never handle the responsibility for the millions of people influenced by the decisions of Comey and Trump. I do however understand that when overwhelmed by the responsibility it is the boy scouts like James Comey that I must rely on to guide me to safety.
Unlike your president I understand the need to listen to and often times obey the stop signs that tell us that sometimes the road to Utopia may send us over the cliff. It is only when real liberals like Bernie Sanders and real conservatives like James Comey realize their mutual dependence that america can again be great. That is why we call our political foes the loyal opposition not as Americans call them the enemy. Pogo was right.
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'Comey is to receive a 'somewhat muted' defense from Democrats.' That's not surprising. Look how they defended Obamacare. Democrats haven't found anything that they can't run away from while Republicans always are on the attack and act like its D-Day.
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I am sure everyone will have their televisions tuned to this interview with James Comey on Sunday night. The ratings will probably be huge and probably surpass the Stormy Daniels interview on CBS. Who said politics was dull. This is probably one of the most important events of the season. I cannot wait to watch as I am sure millions of others are too. Who said TV was dull.
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We can expect the Trump advocates to try to diminish former Director Comey. They must bring him to their level. Compromised beings, they have no references to integrity.
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One of the main problems with truth is that we (rightly) want to base it on facts. Facts can be observed, interpreted and presented (and mis-observed, mis-interpreted and mis-represented) in so many subtle ways that lead to false conclusions. Trump's whole presidency seems to boil down to an I said-You said argument over facts that seem to be "not the point." But you all. Know this. The more frightening thing is to wonder how much, in truth, this has been happening "all along" and Trump's blatant disregard for social mores simply reveals this tendency for what it is?? And no one seems to be asking the right questions, i.e.: What should the US do in face of a "failed" two-party system???
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Deflection and projection defense mechanisms a la trump is de rigeur among the GOP base. The most aggregious of these has been this ‘fake news’ moniker attributed to the media liberally bandied about by trump and GOP operatives. Now its the collusion with Russia being put on Comey, a real stretch that has no creditability. In truth what we really have is a tragically unprepared and dangerously unprincipled ‘fake’ president who is an unabashed leech and an unrepentant liar.
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Nice of Trump to contribute to Comey's retirement fund. Book sales will soar!
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Comey should tweet back, "Stay classy, Mr. President!"
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I can't think of anything more absurd than Sarah Huckabee Sanders having the chutzpah to say that Comey "has no credibility".
The person with no credibility is Donald Trump, along with his sycophants like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Does anyone believe any words out of Huckabee Sanders' mouth?
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I wonder when Trump will file a libel lawsuit against Comey? Never?
Classic projection. Point the finger and three are pointing right back at you.
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Trump's Tweets insulting Comey will sell more books for Comey.
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Its interesting how threatened Trump and the Republicans are by this. I understand Trump, after all this guy knows things about him he would rather not have aired in public. The republican party involvement is telling by itself, they have really hooked themselves to Trumps balloon & their hysteria now over this book would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic. Know what Trump believes, free publicity is better then none. Comey must be thankful that they are providing him with so much of it. Sad
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The man is a menace to society and world peace. We are paying a huge price for electing him.
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The scariest part of this is that the RNC would actually move to defend Trump against an accomplished Republican public servant.
The GOP is the party of treason.
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You got that right, dmckj!
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It all comes down to who has more credibility, Trump or Comey?
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It may seem childish to say this, but every foul name Trump calls anyone else inevitably applies far more appropriately, to Donald John Trump, Senior.
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Scooter is to be pardoned by Trump for what crimes? Oh, lying to multiple government agencies and outing Valerie Wilson to get back at her husband when he used facts to disagree with Cheney. But now Trump wants to malign Comey for being untruthful.
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Mr. Comey is an icon of law enforcement but Trump, who campaigned as the candidate of "law and order," responded like a pugnacious mobster. Oh, such irony!
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Trump knows no shame. I do resent that we must all bear his shame for him. It is a colossal national burden.
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Only if Trump's whole purpose in life has been to reach such heights of idiocy as have never before been known to man, could his plan be working.
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Every single GOP voiced raised to criticize or attack the unquestionable truths disclosed by Mr. Comey instantly implicates themselves as traitors and compromised agents of a foreign government, and worthy of imprisonment. Come, step forward and show yourselves!
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Yet another accurate projection of himself. Funny how I no longer see Trump stickers or flags in my neighborhood
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Trump to nation, "They go low, we go lower."
Why? Trump has been backed into a corner and the options are few to none.
Of all the phony promises made... none have been kept. No wall. No jobs (the economy was Obama's gift). The Kushner/MSB connection. Stupid blows to the farm-belt. Outrageous appeals to white supremacists. A revolving door for senior staff. The list goes on.
Outside of billion dollar tax breaks to himself and his crony capitalist allies and gifts to polluters courtesy of Scott Pruitt - the Trump administration has become a liability to an American Empire in rapid decline.
Not only does Trump not have a game plan - he doesn't even have a game. These people make it up from minute to minute and are guided by nothing more than raw greed and their own hyper-inflated public relations. As incredible as it seems... they actually believe their own nonsense variation on the theme of American exceptionalism.
This has gone from a recipe for disaster to an actual, rolling day-by-day disaster.
Comey reflects the fact that the power elites in the US have had enough of this foolishness and are now bringing down the curtain on a farce that's become an absurdist tragedy.
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One thing that we should remember, is that while James Comey is a decent, and as straight a straight arrow as they come, he is also, clearly a fool. But an honest fool. His mistakes are not moral errors, though they have had dire moral consequences, but, rather, are errors of analysis.
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The president distributes so many lies through the printed word (Twitter) that he believes everyone else's printed word must be equally untruthful.
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Trump has a propensity to call those names to other people which aptly describe him. He accuses other people of all the sleazy, unethical, even illegal things he himself has engaged in. Projecting himself onto other people is how he functions on a daily basis. So this fits the pattern.
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Obama stated on numerous occasions in 2016 and I paraphrase, ' don't complain, vote; don't yell, vote". 46% of eligible voters never bothered to vote in the 2016 election. Tada!
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How deeply, revoltingly un-presidential. Trump should be ashamed, but shame is not in him any more than decency is. How long must we endure his petty, vindictive, spur-of-the-moment drivel?
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"Untethered to the truth" seems like a euphemistic way to refer to Trump's outright lies. Trump himself bragged about lying to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada when referring to the trade deficits between the two nations. Trump is a proven liar-he even brags about it. He is a proven sleazeball-by his own bragging in the Access Hollywood Tapes.
I am grateful to Comey for his surmise about the strange coloration of Trump's face. I always wondered about the strange white half-moons under his eyes. It never occurred to me-but, yes, they must be from tanning goggles!
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think his tan is the spray-on variety which would explain the dismal color.
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Trump's ranting tweet proves (once again) that the conservatives and Republicans have, with Russian help, foisted a tantrum throwing twisted little man with the maturity of a 14 year old spoiled brat onto the nation as president.
His impeachment needs to happen before he does something with the nuclear launch codes.
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So where does it state that TRUMP is wrong?
At this point, it’s understood
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Remember this people, we’re all complicit in this embarrassing fiasco and national embarrassment!
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Trump is, indeed, a class act...well maybe not so much. And you all voted for him? No wait, you didn't. But your Electoral College did. Hmmm...go figure.
And to think but for a few votes in the right places you could have had Hillary Clinton. I put that failure squarely on the shoulders of Democrats who held their nose and stayed home on election day. Democrats could have done better. If they want this foolishness with Trump to stop they need to turn up on election day in November and vote.
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President Trump is declaring his weakness, insecurity, vulnerability, and guilty conscience with every tweet that he posts.
We, as Americans, are better than this.
Remember in November, and vote.
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If the Republican national committee has an all hands effort to make Mr. Comey look bad, then that just proves that what he is saying must have some level of truth to it.
Calling someone a slime ball, as Mr Trump, makes Trump sound like a small time gangster (just like Comey said he was).
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just stop with the name calling and the blame and shame -- exhausting. Trump needs to get to work of this nation -- there is so much to do and all this seems to be taking too much of his time. Is it that he just not interested in Policy making and substantive issues and would rather play the games of 6 year olds--very worrisome indeed
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Thank you Republicans for this thoughtful, intelligent, compassionate high class president. We will remember you this November, and in November 2020.
All of you.
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The fact that Comey's credibility is being questioned by both parties, one holding a grudge, the other fearful of the truth, is convincing evidence of his bonafides.
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Sorry, for me I still can't get passed the fact that Comey released the letter about the Clinton emails a couple weeks before the election pretty much putting trump in office. His book might be accurate but he has no one to blame but himself for this mess.
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Question: Have you met a single person who changed their vote because Comey released the letter about Clinton? I had already sent my ballot in.
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I don't accept this behavior from the president of the United States. Period.
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The reason Trump is calling Comey a "Slime Ball" is because he did tell the truth. Trump values loyalty above the truth.
The President displays his regard for truthfullness on a daily basis.
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In light of Comey’s revelations about Trump’s freak out when he heard that Russia may have that infamous video, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if that’s the reason he called off the attack on Syria.
Even if Putin doesn’t have that video, Trump assumes he may have it, which is a proof that it actually happened. Knowing that, Russia is free to threaten Trump regardless of what they have on him.
I continue to be baffled by the people who continue to stand by him. What exactly are they getting out of this relationship?
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Belonging at its most base. It's mob, gang, pack mentality.
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Seriously, it must be hard living life as Donald Trump. Chronically angry in constant need of reassurance, demanding unerring loyalty, not having a clue about real love or friendship,
Seeing the world only through the prism of “what’s in it for me?”. Sad.
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Just as I thought Trump could not sink any lower in the muck he proved me wrong. With all the important issues facing our nation (North Korea, Syria, China, Russia and NAFTA) doesn't he have anything more urgent to do than start a slanderous attack on Comey. What ideals, or strategies, is he offering the nation at this critical time in which he has picked so many fights with friends and foes alike?
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You have to wonder why, if it was so plainly obvious that Mr. Comey was a neer-do-well, it takes a concerted effort by the president and his allies to discredit him. Comey is a complex individual and it is easy to find things on which to disagree with him. But I can't find a reason to question his intent. I cannot say this about Mr. Putin or the torch-bearing marchers in Charlottesville. But Mr. Trump and his allies have taken no concerted steps to discredit them. So again, whose interests is Mr. Trump and the GOP protecting? Certainly not those of the American people.
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I am continually embarrassed by the behavior, language and policies of Donald Trump. He is not emblematic of my USA; nor does he behave as a president should. Today his name calling reached a new low and only reinforced points reviewers have noted were made by Jim Comey in his memoir. What happened to the principles of the Enlightenment that guided the Founding Fathers. I am horrified we are being governed by a Tony Soprano wannabe.
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Does this mean it's time for a "New Security Force" in the United States today?
One that has sworn loyalty and allegiance to Trump personally? Perhaps a new kind of salute to go with it?
Sorry, I guess I shouldn't give anyone "ideas".
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No, but it is time to change that the FBI director is serving at the pleasure of the President.
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