Comey Testimony Confirms Trump Is Still His Own Worst Enemy

[EasyAce]

No one should lose sight of the fact that the president got himself into this mess.
By Jonah Goldberg
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448469/james-comey-testimony-confirms-donald-trump-own-worst-enemy

For those who hoped that former FBI director James Comey was going to provide some bombshell evidence — or
any evidence at all — that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 election, Thursday’s Senate testimony
had to be a major letdown. Of course, that was a foolish hope in the first place, since even if such evidence existed, Comey
was never going to divulge it in an open Senate hearing.

For Trump’s most ardent supporters, Comey’s testimony exonerated the president. Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, responded
to Comey’s written testimony: “The president feels completely and totally vindicated.” And in a sense he should.

Comey confirmed what Trump had said when he fired the FBI director last month: Comey had told the president on three
different occasions that he wasn’t the target of a criminal investigation. What drove Trump nuts was that Comey wouldn’t
say that publicly. Now he has.

But there’s a problem. After the hearing, Kasowitz denied all the damning parts of Comey’s testimony. The president never
told Comey “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty,” Kasowitz insisted, and Trump never asked Comey to drop any investigation
into Flynn. In short: Comey’s a liar and Trump isn’t . . .

. . . According to Comey, Trump believed the Russia investigation was a “cloud” over his presidency, preventing him from
making great “deals” for America. Democrats and the media, desperate to explain away Hillary Clinton’s humiliating defeat,
surely deserve their fair share of blame for that cloud. But no sensible person can deny that Trump — with his obsessive
tweeting and aphasic outbursts — has done almost everything he can to make that cloud thicker and darker than necessary.
It’s like he had a fog machine installed next to his giant TV.

If Trump had simply focused on making great deals for America — whatever that means — rather than obsessing over the
Democrat-fueled myth that he was being investigated, he wouldn’t have an approval rating in the mid-30s, and the
Democrats would be on their heels. But he opted to rely on his instincts. And now the harshest irony is that, as Comey
intimated Thursday, it may no longer be a myth that Trump is being personally investigated. Mueller is now looking at
whether the president obstructed justice. I’m inclined to think he didn’t. But Mueller wouldn’t be looking at all were it
not for Trump’s super instincts.

[truth_seeker]

The premise of the headline is false (Trump himself is to blame for Comey fiasco).

Comey is a Clinton operative, sleazy, dirty, biased, etc.

To think anybody (media, Congress, FBI themselves) would have established their was no meaningful "Russia factor" in the election, tied to Trump, is delusional and naïve.

Trump himself pushes "matters"  such as this into the forefront, by virtue of his style, position, newsworthiness, willingness to take big risks.

[dfwgator]

The premise of the headline is false (Trump himself is to blame for Comey fiasco).

Comey is a Clinton operative, sleazy, dirty, biased, etc.

To think anybody (media, Congress, FBI themselves) would have established their was no meaningful "Russia factor" in the election, tied to Trump, is delusional and naïve.

Trump himself pushes "matters"  such as this into the forefront, by virtue of his style, position, newsworthiness, willingness to take big risks.

 

[Oceander]

The premise of the headline is spot on. 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

The premise of the headline is spot on.

Yep.