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Trump rips 'rigged system' as we learn Comey drafted Hillary exoneration statements well before probe was concluded



We touched on this earlier but it's worth revisiting so we don't miss the big picture on this story. Townhall's Katie Pavlich has the details this morning of the revelation that then-FBI Director James Comey was preparing an "exoneration statement" of Hillary Clinton months before he announced his decision publicly, and well before the FBI itself had completed its investigation. This has prompted a FOIA request for details about the FBI's process, which the FBI attempted earlier in the week to deny, only to be told this morning by a federal judge that it has to comply with the request. Clearly, the internal bureaucracy at the FBI is trying to cover its own asses on this, and President Trump has made his feelings known this morning:

What is now abundantly clear, however, is that Comey knew all along what the outcome of this was going to be

The president is sometimes given to hyperbole in his tweets, in case you hadn't noticed, but it's hard to see how he's off base on this one. It was clear more than a year ago that the Obama DOJ was sabotaging the investigation, making it all but impossible for the FBI to make a case for charging Hillary even if it wanted to. What we don't know is whether Comey agreed with this agenda or simply felt compelled to follow it because it was coming down from his bosses at Justice, and most likely from the Obama White House itself. What is now abundantly clear, however, is that Comey knew all along what the outcome of this was going to be, and it had nothing to do with the evidence the FBI came up with. Hillary wasn't going to be charged because the political powers-that-be didn't want her to be charged, and Comey as FBI director was going to push those buttons because those were his marching orders. What Hillary actually did in setting up a schlock, homebrew e-mail server and using it for all her work-related e-mails was bad enough, particularly considering how it jeopardized classified information and how she lied about that throughout the entire affair. Far worse is the way the entire federal law enforcement apparatus went through the motions of investigating the matter without ever intending to charge her with a crime, even though Comey went on at length in his June 2016 presser about the clear evidence she had violated at least one felony statute. For the FBI now to try to deny FOIA requests shows that its leadership apparatus is fearful of having all this known publicly. We need to know it, regardless of who pays the price professionally or legally as a result. Previous presidents would have been more circumspect about pre-judging the matter rather than proclaiming on Twitter that the system is rigged. But previous presidents allowed this very system to survive, and their appointees hired the people who are responsible for all this. President Trump caught a lot of heat for firing James Comey. That decision is looking better by the day.

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