THE COMEY CONUNDRUM: FEAR, LOATHING, AND THE DEEP-STATE DRAGNETBy The Last Wire — High on Caffeine. Low on Faith, Reporting Live From the Eye of the Swamp.The Last Wire
By the time you crawl into the Comey–Trump power struggle, you begin to realize you’re not in a political dispute—you’re in a long, looping fever dream with federal badges, cable-news shamans, and a former president who treats vendettas like oxygen.
To understand what’s happening, you have to go back to the beginning—back to Crossfire Hurricane, the Bureau’s roulette wheel of an investigation built partly on the now-infamous Steele dossier, a document intelligence analysts were already whispering looked like political performance art. Back to the slow-motion bureaucratic ballet where senior officials dismissed highly credible warnings about the Hunter Biden laptop while publicly blessing the idea that it just might be Kremlin vapor.
And in the center of the cyclone stood James Comey—towering, theatrical, and always painfully certain that he was the last honest man in Washington. Depending on your angle, he’s either the noble guardian who saved democracy or the sanctimonious bureaucrat who mistook his own moral narration for divine warrant.
Meanwhile Trump—never one to forget a slight—saw Comey as the walking embodiment of a system he believes set out to kneecap him before he even warmed the chair in the Oval Office.
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