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11th June 2017, 11:58 AM | #2401 |
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11th June 2017, 12:10 PM | #2402 |
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I'm curious how many people think Comey should have kept his job solely based on how he handled the Clinton "investigation" leading up to the election.
Aside from all things Trump, I think he screwed up enough to warrant his replacement. I also think Trump is an idiot for handling it like he did and he should have canned him right away, if at all. Comey's own testimony shows what a fool Comey is. |
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11th June 2017, 12:40 PM | #2403 |
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11th June 2017, 12:42 PM | #2404 |
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11th June 2017, 12:46 PM | #2405 |
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11th June 2017, 12:53 PM | #2406 |
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11th June 2017, 01:11 PM | #2407 |
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Leading question.
I am one who thinks there is no reason he should not have kept his job. As the head of the FBI is typically a job that is served out and not replaced when a new President comes in, yes, he should have kept his job - but not "solely based on how he handled the Clinton investigation", nor at all based on the Clinton investigation, but based on the fact that he ran the FBI ok and there was no reason to replace him. Can you name anything specific? Can you be specific? |
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15th June 2017, 09:53 PM | #2408 |
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I disagree. Obama should have fired him the day he testified about the Clinton email inquiry. He violated policy that says the FBI does not comment on ongoing investigations. AND, worse, he went on and on about Clinton's careless mishandling of classified emails. FBI policy says that commenting about the behavior of a person under investigation is strictly forbidden.
Comey may have been a good FBI Director up to then but someone at that level should not be able to violate policy so egregiously and remain in place. After all, his errors arguably affected the outcome of the most important election in American - the election of the President. So 100% of the error lies with Obama. I speculate that the reason he did not act is that the Republicans would have raised holy hell, claiming that he was attempting to influence the election toward HRC. Tough. He should have acted and taken the heat. |
15th June 2017, 10:12 PM | #2409 |
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The joke is the suggestion that how Comey handled the Clinton investigation had anything to do at all as to why Trump fired Comey.
I can only think of 2 possible reasons why Trump fired Comey. The first is that Trump panicked when he realized the FBI investigation would continue and the second was that Comey had no interest in being a sycophant like other members of Trump's cabinet. I still can't get over how servile and obsequious his cabinet was towards Trump during the last cabinet meeting. |
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15th June 2017, 11:01 PM | #2410 |
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16th June 2017, 12:00 AM | #2411 |
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He wouldn't have taken the heat. It would have been all about trashing Hillary. I agree his hesitancy could be maddening. Aside from "we will find Osama bin Laden and we will kill him," he hemmed and hawed quite a bit.
ETA: What Quadraginta said. If Betsy DeVos was there, I missed it. I think I watched the whole video. Don't really want to watch it again. |
16th June 2017, 12:31 AM | #2412 |
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DeVos at the creepy cabinet meeting: "It's a privilege to serve, to serve the students of this country, and to work to ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to get a great education, and therefore a great future."
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16th June 2017, 12:35 AM | #2413 |
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." |
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20th June 2017, 06:09 AM | #2417 |
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20th June 2017, 10:58 AM | #2418 |
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." |
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18th October 2017, 04:50 AM | #2419 |
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As it has turned out, James Comey lied and leaked and totally protected Hillary Clinton. He was the best thing that ever happened to her!What was the official reason for firing Comey again? |
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18th October 2017, 08:14 AM | #2421 |
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18th October 2017, 09:13 AM | #2422 |
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18th October 2017, 09:24 AM | #2423 |
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It doesn't work like that. Trump has the best height. Absolutely the best. You won't believe how good his height is, it's that good. Just last week, Michael Jordan or one of those other guys, I don't remember now, but he mentioned how great Trump's height was and how he wished he could have had the same height as Trump.
Your height isn't as good as Trump's, whether it's less or whatever, I don't know, but it's just not as good. He might feel a little sorry for you, with your |
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