By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--June 10, 2017
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They were so sure. They were just absolutely, 100%, positive that fired FBI Director James Comey would drop some sort of Trump-destroying bombshell during his testimony. Finally unshackled, Comey was going to tower over the "worst President ever" and deliver a knockout blow.
Privately, they must be reeling this morning.
Comey's weak-sauce testimony was filled with filtered interpretation, opinions, inaccuracies (if not outright lies), and basically ended up corroborating most of what Trump has been saying for the last year. The concept that then candidate Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin is dead. "Obstruction of justice" is on life support. ...And the left is being forced to admit it."The assumption of the critics of the president - of his pursuers, you might say - is that somewhere along the line in the last year is the president had something to do with colluding with the Russians. Something to do with a helping hand, encouraging them, feeding their desire to affect the election in some way. Some role they played - some conversation they had with Michael Flynn, or Paul Manafort, or somewhere... And yet what came apart this morning was that theory, because of two regards. The President said, according to the written testimony of Mr. Comey, "Go ahead and get anybody who's satellite to my operation and nail them. I'm with you on that." So that would mean Manafort, Carter Paige, someone else like that. And then it also came across today - what was fascinating - Comey said that basically Flynn wasn't central to the Russian investigation - that he was touching on it - that of course, we assume, that Flynn wasn't honest in his answering on official forms to become National Security head. ...In other words, they could flip him because they had him caught on something he dishonestly answered but he wasn't central, it seems, to the Russian thing.
I've always assume what Trump was afraid of, he had said something to Flynn, and Flynn could be flipped on that, and Flynn would testify against the President that he had had some conversation with Flynn in terms of dealing with the Russians affirmatively. And if that's not the case, where's the there-there?"The answer, as we've been saying all along, is that there is nothing there. This entire story was concocted as a way to A: deflect blame for Hillary's loss, and B: delegitimize President Trump's new administration. We're sure Chris Matthews regrets his many, many, months of conspiracy theories and fear-mongering.
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