Posted on 05/10/2017 1:48:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Right there it is at Fox: “Growing questions over president’s assertion that Comey told him three times he wasn’t being investigated.” You knew that was gonna happen. So why would Trump put that in the letter? Why would Trump assert that? Some people think, “Trump just can’t help himself. He’s a child. Trump had to put in that he’s innocent, he’s not guilty, he didn’t do anything.” That’s not what Trump was doing. You have to know Donald Trump. It’s no crime knowing Donald Trump — and I don’t mean “know him,” know him. I mean know how he thinks, how he speaks.
I’ve said it once, I’ve said it many times: There’s nobody many American media that can better Donald Trump — the way he speaks, how he speaks, and the connection he has with his voters — than your host, me, El Rushbo. I’m gonna tell you, when Trump puts in this letter… It may not have been wise to do it; I’m not even commenting on that. But I think you always have to remember he’s not a politician and doesn’t care to be. So he’s not trying to go in there and master the system.
He’s in there to be who he is, and if it blows up the system? Fine. Drain the swamp. However you want to characterize it. What Trump was saying… Look, no question he’s using that assertion as an opportunity to tell people, ’cause Comey’s not telling anybody. I mean, why would Trump put that in there if it’s not true? Can anybody think why somebody…? Trump has to know that statement’s gonna become — at some point when these clowns cool off, it’s gonna become 00 a focal point. It’s gonna become a target.
Why would Trump lie about Comey having told him three times he’s not being investigated if he is being investigated? What upside is there for Trump, for there to be a discovery that Comey had not cleared him? Now, given fake news, anybody can make anything up these days and call it news, which happens way too often in the Drive-By Media. What Trump was saying was, “Even though — even though — I am not being pursued, I’m still getting rid of the guy.” What Trump wanted people to believe, what he is trying to convey was that he’s not the kind of guy who would leave things alone and not do anything.
As long as he’s not in trouble, fine and dandy. Let Comey do what he wants to do. He’s not that kind of guy. What he was saying is, “Even though Comey’s told me that I didn’t do anything — he hasn’t found anything — I still had to get rid of the guy because I find what he’s doing outrageous.” He was actually trying to credit himself for non-prejudicial thinking. But the way it reads to critics is that Trump’s lost in his narcissism and his ego and just had to tell people. “He just had to tell people!
“He just couldn’t wait for the investigation. He had to tell people that Comey told him he’s not being investigated.” (laughing) “Even though you told me three times…” So now they’re looking at the that, and they’re gonna find a source somewhere. An anonymous source will say, “I don’t think that’s what Comey was telling us in the office.” You know damn well! You can make book on that. You can make book there’s gonna be at least an anonymous source, maybe two who will say, “No, the director didn’t say that to President Trump.”
Just get ready for it, ’cause you know it’s coming.
Translation: Thank you for reminding me three times of your blackmailing ability.
Skeptical of intent, but still quite amusing.
If Comey’s not allowed to comment on ongoing investigations, or potential investigations, he’s not allowed to tell president Trump about any investigation regarding Trump. Would he have called me to say “you’re not under investigation?” Or is that just a favor he does for the powerful?
So, if president Trump had been under investigation and Comey lied about it, then Comey was outside the lines of the law.
Or was Comey threatening the president by insinuating that he COULD put Trump under investigation?
One Donald Trump would not take that too kindly. And Comey’s public comments kept hinting at something involving Trump.
I’ve read many saying folks were afraid of Comey.
Was he trying to put Trump in his place?
Trump might be giving folks something to think about in his brief letter. Was Trump threatened?
LOL! And the MSM has it everywhere
Every time the heads of the spy groups were asked if there was any evidence of Trump collusion each and every one said no...even Comey
I don’t think the attempt to keep the Left Base enraged until the next election is going to work. Mass nervous breakdowns are coming soon.
And, there really doesn’t seem to BE much fight in the Left.
Consider...
Many Republicans couldn’t stand Trump and wanted him out of the campaign. But they still followed their own rules and Trump won the nomination fair and square.
The Democrats followed their rules too. Those rules allowed the power structure to nominate Hillary when Bernie might well have won in a straight up primary without superdelegates.
Yet, the Left doesn’t seem outraged at the Democrat brutish behavior usurping the power of the people! Have we seen a March for Bernie? A March against the DEM-E?
Except you can’t prove a negative, Rush.
Yes!
Since Presidential conversations and meetings are recorded, I suspect that there are three recordings of Comey saying it. Trump would love a scenario where Comey denies saying it, the media wets itself, then Trump plays the tapes.
Others have theorized:
1) that Trump brilliantly used the occasion to remind us that the FBI has found nothing on him, and is not investigating same;
2) that Trump read the three assurances as a blackmail threat (as in “Nice Presidency ya got there. Be a shame if an investigation wrecked it.”)
My theory: Trump was saying F.U. to Comey, who after making these assurances, just asked Asst AG Rod Rosenstein (sp?) for funding to greatly expand the investigation of fake Russian Election Influence. That investigation would have been aimed 100% at undermining Trump and destroying him by association. Comey assurances were Clinton-style lies while he went full steam ahead with the Democrats’ anti-Trump witchhunt.
I hope the plan is to name a new Director, and let him/her fire McCabe and the other Hillary protectors within the FBI.
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