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You don’t have to wait for tomorrow’s blockbuster hearing: the Senate Intelligence Committee has posted on its website the opening statement by fired FBI Director Jim Comey, detailing five meetings and conversations with President Trump between January 6 and April 11 of this year. Much like the acting FBI Director’s testimony three weeks ago, there is good news and bad news here for both Donald Trump and his rabid critics . . .. . . (T)he good news: Comey explodes the Democrats’ narrative that Trump was under criminal investigation for collusion with Russia, and confirms with specificity that Trump was telling the truth when he tweeted that Comey had told him as much on three occasions. The bad news, for Trump, is that Comey also details his mounting concerns about Trump’s heavy-handedness . . .. . . (I)t’s still highly improper conduct by the President of the United States to ask the FBI Director, who knows full well that the President can fire him, to lay off a friend and former aide to the President. Comey acted entirely properly by documenting the incident and asking Sessions to keep him from getting cornered by Trump like that again (for similar reasons to why then-FBI Director Louis Freeh turned in his White House pass during Bill Clinton’s term).The narrative the Democrats desperately want is that Trump is under FBI investigation for criminal activity that invalidates the 2016 election, and has committed impeachable offenses. The facts they actually have are a lot less sexy: a president who wouldn’t respect the FBI’s independence and couldn’t understand why the FBI Director couldn’t publicly exonerate him when he wasn’t under investigation. But those facts are ugly enough in what they say about Trump’s ability to run a government that inspires confidence in the impartial administration of justice.
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Topic: Jim Comey Backs Up Trump’s Story, But It’s Not All Good News for Trump (Read 260 times)
