Comey is a petty idiot

Meadmaker said:
Ok. Read this after I wrote my reply.

So, yeah. Rotten fellow, but you like his policies. I can respect that, a little.
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I’ve never said anything different. I’ve been explaining this ever since he won the nomination.
 
Meadmaker said:
In all seriousness, why are you fellas worked up about this book?

Based on what I've seen, there will be nothing in it worth reading. It won't tell us anything we don't know. Unless they're saving the juicy stuff for just before publication, the only "bombshells" will be more of the same old stuff.

The fact that this book will get saturation coverage and will make Comey a whole bunch of money proves the shallowness of the American electorate. They will latch onto anything, no matter how little information there is in it, as long as it slams those awful, no good folks in the other party.

And you know which politician has benefitted the most from that shallowness? That would be Donald J. Trump. If we had a media that was more interested in fiscal policy than in golden showers, or more interested in science than in polls, or just in general a media that wasn't measured by their ability to sell advertising, that was news instead of entertainment, the electorate would be better informed, and Donald Trump would have never had his name on the ballot, because the man is an utter buffoon.

Once again, in all seriousness, this book appears to be mostly attacks on the character of Donald Trump, but surely you don't need a book to tell you that Donald Trump is someone of low character do you? Seriously? Stormy Daniels? Trump University? "I won the popular vote"? Multiple bankruptcies, keeping tens of millions of dollars leaving shareholders holding the bag? Heel spurs? I get that he cut your taxes, but surely you don't think that this man is a decent human being do you? He has been rotten to the core since his days as a whites only landlord.

This book is the sort of thing we deserve, because we gobble it up, and because of it, we have a reality TV star for a president, and he got there in a fair and free election.

We have met the enemy, and they are us.
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Other than the idea the election was fair, I would agree with everything you just wrote. (Which shocks the hell out of me)

There is unlikely anything in this book that should be startling to anyone. Madeline Albright's book is far more important..(I think) Still I haven't read it.

Donald Trump poses an existential threat to the things that really made America great. Such as a system of checks and balances. Freedom of the Press. Free and fair elections. A judicial system based on the rule of law and not based on individuals. The idea that Trump can even think of demanding personally loyalty above country is obscene. Remember that cabinet meeting where all those appointees fawned over themselves to praise Trump? That was sickening. I've never seen anything like it. While I do disagree with pretty much every policy decision he has ever made, it is his threat to democratic institutions that concerns me most.
 
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Did you even read my post? You quoted it. I’m in agreement about your opinion on what’s in the book, no one cares. I’m amazed about the man who wrote it and that he seems oblivious to what this says about his career. Trump clearly lives rent free in his head.

Trump wins again!!!
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To be honest, I read your post but didn't understand it. I think I get it now, and I agree.

Oh....and he'll make a bunch of money on it.

Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised to learn that there is something in this book worth reading, but so far, both positive and negative teaser articles about it seem to think it will just be "Trump sucks". Well I already know that, so what's the point?


I disagree with a lot of things that you write, including a lot of things about James Comey, but when it comes to this book, I'm expecting nothing significant, based on media pre-release coverage.
 
Meadmaker said:
I've seen a few tidbits of things expected in the book. Trump is a liar, divorced from the truth, utterly self-absorbed, detached from reality.


Yawn. Why would anyone buy a book like that? If it told me what direction I needed to face to watch the sunrise, it would be more revealing.
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Well, the book isn't about Trump, though; it's about Comey. Right now the press is seizing upon what it has to say about Trump specifically because Trump is topical. But the book itself is a memoir; my understanding is that it deals with Comey's entire career, which is a lot larger than the dumpster fire that is Trump. As a DA he helped prosecute the Gambinos, he put Martha Stewart away for the ImClone business, he indicted the Khobar Towers terrorists (although Saudi Arabia never extradited them in the end), and so on. There's probably all manner of interesting stuff in the book. I'm particularly interested in the FBI/DOJ's standoff with the Bush White House over domestic wiretapping. Trump takes up maybe six months of a 40-year body of work.
 
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From a NYT article about the book:

Mr. Comey’s book does not include dramatic new revelations about the Russia investigation itself, which is continuing.
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The book also serves as a platform for Mr. Comey to once again defend his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the decisions that for a time made him one of the most despised figures among political liberals and other supporters of Mrs. Clinton.

However, Mr. Comey acknowledges that he thought Mrs. Clinton would win the presidency and said it is “entirely possible” that he decided to reveal that the email investigation had started up again 11 days before the election because he was primarily concerned that if he concealed the renewed investigation, it would make her an “illegitimate president.”

Would he have made a different decision if Mr. Trump had been ahead in the polls? “I don’t know,” Mr. Comey concedes.

The book is a personal memoir more than a direct attack on Mr. Trump, the 45th president, and many of the chapters do not mention him. Mr. Comey describes his upbringing and the path that led him to the Justice Department and the F.B.I.
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Mr. Comey devotes a good part of the book to his worry about the damage that Mr. Trump and his presidency are doing to the country’s future.

“We are experiencing a dangerous time in our country,” he writes, “with a political environment where basic facts are disputed, fundamental truth is questioned, lying is normalized and unethical behavior is ignored, excused or rewarded.”
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The Big Dog said:
.......If he had not humiliated the fbi by giving Hillary a pass and then informing the nation that he was not giving Hillary a pass 10 days before the election, trump might not be president.....
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So who is "humiliating the FBI" now by giving Jared Kushner (and others*) a pass for the exact same activity? I mean, in addition to you.

*Bannon, Priebus, Cohn, Raffel
 
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The Big Dog said:
Well I guess we have to hand it to the petty book selling weasel.

If he had not humiliated the fbi by giving Hillary a pass and then informing the nation that he was not giving Hillary a pass 10 days before the election, trump might not be president.

Buy his book!
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Go on! Say it! You know you want to... ;)

Lyin' Comey.

There, now. That was easy. Donny can do it so you can too.
 
Lol Trump supporters complaining about petty idiots. Irony, obtuseness, hypocracy, or all 3?
 
It's worth pointing out that the press are reporting that the book says that Trump asked Comey to investigate the pee tape. That's not true. The book says that Trump said he was thinking about asking Comey to investigate the pee tape. Similar wording, but very different statements.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
It's worth pointing out that the press are reporting that the book says that Trump asked Comey to investigate the pee tape. That's not true. The book says that Trump said he was thinking about asking Comey to investigate the pee tape. Similar wording, but very different statements.
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smartcooky said:
Whatever.
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It may be an important distinction, then again it may not. Perhaps in the murky world of NY property a lot of instructions are given by inference in order to maintain plausible deniability.

"I am thinking that it would be convenient if he was unable to testify for some reason" isn't an instruction to a henchman to interfere with a witness - no, it's just a person thinking aloud. If someone interprets that as an instruction to rough up a witness, that's just too bad ;)
 
Checkmite said:
Well, the book isn't about Trump, though; it's about Comey. Right now the press is seizing upon what it has to say about Trump specifically because Trump is topical. But the book itself is a memoir; my understanding is that it deals with Comey's entire career, which is a lot larger than the dumpster fire that is Trump. As a DA he helped prosecute the Gambinos, he put Martha Stewart away for the ImClone business, he indicted the Khobar Towers terrorists (although Saudi Arabia never extradited them in the end), and so on. There's probably all manner of interesting stuff in the book. I'm particularly interested in the FBI/DOJ's standoff with the Bush White House over domestic wiretapping. Trump takes up maybe six months of a 40-year body of work.
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Figures.

See, my whole knowledge of this book comes from some pre-release articles, and what do those emphasize? Trump. Salacious details about Trump. Trump is a liar. Trump, Trump, Trump.

It's so ironic that this anti-Trump focus helps Trump so much.
 
Meadmaker said:
Figures.

See, my whole knowledge of this book comes from some pre-release articles, and what do those emphasize? Trump. Salacious details about Trump. Trump is a liar. Trump, Trump, Trump.

It's so ironic that this anti-Trump focus helps Trump so much.
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How does it help Trump? Granted, it did help him during his candidacy, but as incumbent I don't see how it helps him.
 
The Don said:
It may be an important distinction, then again it may not. Perhaps in the murky world of NY property a lot of instructions are given by inference in order to maintain plausible deniability.

"I am thinking that it would be convenient if he was unable to testify for some reason" isn't an instruction to a henchman to interfere with a witness - no, it's just a person thinking aloud. If someone interprets that as an instruction to rough up a witness, that's just too bad ;)
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End few seconds is NSFW

 
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