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Comey Tells Ex-Clinton Aide Stephanopoulos That Trump Is 'Morally Unfit'
Townhall.com ^ | April 19, 2018 | Larry Elder

Posted on 04/19/2018 6:35:09 AM PDT by Kaslin

Fired ex-FBI head James Comey told ABC News "chief anchor" George Stephanopoulos that Donald Trump is "morally unfit to be president"? Think about this. Comey offered this assessment to Stephanopoulos, whose former boss, first candidate and then President Bill Clinton, was credibly accused of rape and sexual assault, had sex in the Oval Office with an intern, and then lied about it under oath, for which he was impeached.

But Comey tells Stephanopoulos that Trump is "morally unfit to be president"?

Also, Fox News' Sean Hannity, a staunch President Trump defender, got hammered for not revealing his relationship with Donald Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen. Hannity claims his relationship with Cohen did not rise to client-attorney, but that he had merely sought out Cohen's informal advice on real estate matters. Still, Hannity, now the face of Fox News, who at times has referred to himself as a "journalist," should have known that critics would cry "conflict of interest." So he should have disclosed the relationship out of abundance of caution.

Shouldn't "chief anchor" Clintonopoulos have also given full disclosure? Shouldn't he have informed the viewers that he was a top campaign aide for then-Gov. Clinton's presidential race; that he helped Hillary Clinton malign Bill's female accusers; and that after the election he served as a top aide to President Clinton?

Why didn't Stephanopoulos disclose that as a top campaign aide to Bill Clinton, he went on TV and accused Gennifer Flowers, a Clinton mistress, of lying? And yet with Comey, Stephanopoulos clenches his jaw in indignation over Trump's alleged treatment of women.

Stephanopoulos, in his Comey interview, never challenged the ex-FBI director's assertion that Trump is "morally unfit" to be president. Democratic icon President John F. Kennedy, according to former New York Times reporter and New Yorker contributor Seymour Hersh, had venereal disease for decades, slept with a mobster's mistress, partied with hookers in the White House, etc. But Trump's "morally unfit"?! Stephanopoulos never asked Comey how and why he found that Hillary Clinton lacked "intent" to violate the Espionage Act -- when the provision in question does not require intent. All it requires is "gross negligence."

If the goal of Comey's book was to defend his reputation, it's not working. Former New York Times statistician and writer Nate Silver tweeted: "It's also not particularly honorable, if you have information that you believe is of immediate and vital national importance, to wait to 11 months to release it until you can have a giant book launch and publicity tour around it."

If anti-Trumpers were hoping for a smoking gun, Comey didn't not deliver. First, he flat-out admits that politics colored his decision to re-open the Hillary Clinton email investigation days before the election. He writes: "It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls."

Second, Comey says he doesn't know if Trump broke the law. "I have one perspective on the behavior I saw," Comey writes, "which while disturbing and violating basic norms of ethical leadership, may fall short of being illegal."

Meanwhile, the Trump-Russia collusion investigation continues without, so far, evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, while the media's Trump Derangement Syndrome rages on. Anti-Republicanism has, of course, long been a staple of the mainstream political news media. In the 40-plus years The Washington Post has been endorsing presidential candidates, they have never endorsed a Republican. The New York Times has not endorsed a Republican president in 60 years -- since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. But this is a whole new level of hostility.

America would be on fire had President Barack Obama spent the first year and a half of his presidency battling bogus charges of Russian "collusion," and then an Obama collusion probe turned into an investigation about lying to investigators; expanded into an investigation of obstruction of justice; became an investigation of tax fraud; and morphed into an investigation about the validity of a nondisclosure agreement with a porn star with whom the President may or may not have had a sexual relationship with 12 years ago.

Even Democratic former President Jimmy Carter, a few months ago, offered this observation about Trump and his treatment by the media: "I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I've known about. I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation."

Comey is making millions, but his reputation is now in tatters. As for the hard leftists at MSNBC who accuse Hannity of violating journalistic standards, there is but a two-word response: Al Sharpton.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; US: California
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1 posted on 04/19/2018 6:35:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Takes those two to know that one, eh?
Talk about the pots calling the kettle black.
Shove it, Stephie baby, up your ittle bitty biased brain.
As for Comey, he has stepped in it so many times that he is about as believable as Dan Rather. (But just as stupid.)


2 posted on 04/19/2018 6:39:59 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Kaslin

Hey, Comey, that is a HOOT. You been sipping the cannabis juice?


3 posted on 04/19/2018 6:41:02 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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To: Kaslin

Everytime I hear this ‘morally unfit’ gimmick....I’m imagining some technician explaining to a Hillary staff person at the bathroom closet explaining how the server will work, and provide all the communications that the State Department already provides. Then I can imagine Hillary telling some guy it’s ok to send classified to Hillary.com-email.

She’s not just morally unfit, but even mentally unfit.


4 posted on 04/19/2018 6:41:52 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Kaslin

Morally unfit and Hillary Felon Clinton whose arse Comedy couldn’t kiss enough IS? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!


5 posted on 04/19/2018 6:44:15 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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Moral high ground after giving a pass to bleach bit and smashing blackberries with a hammer and home brew servers.


6 posted on 04/19/2018 6:45:24 AM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: Kaslin

Opinions vary. Thanks so much, Mr Comey, for sharing yours.


7 posted on 04/19/2018 6:47:46 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: Kaslin

“morally unfit”?

I can’t decide whether the guy is funny or pathetic.

In either case, he is a loser.


8 posted on 04/19/2018 6:47:53 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: Kaslin

Evil men often spend much effort accusing others of immorality. Odd thing that...


9 posted on 04/19/2018 6:48:22 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Kaslin
Comey's political leanings are in full force. He wanted Hillary to win...and there is no doubt...he's said it himself. For him to say he's above being "political" in his work...Well that's a damn lie.

The mildest thought that "well, she's gonna win according to the polls" made him step to the mike and take back everything and anything back that he ever said about her. She became his "beloved"....just so he could keep his job. We're not dumb.

10 posted on 04/19/2018 6:59:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin

Hypocrisy. Does he think no one notices just because no one is calling him out? Or maybe he just doesn’t give a hoot.


11 posted on 04/19/2018 6:59:21 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia (truth will trump their lies)
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To: Da Coyote

I would not trust either one in an empty basement, neither would I want to be associated with them, especially not Comey as I believe he is the most dishonest of the two.


12 posted on 04/19/2018 7:01:05 AM PDT by saintgermaine (saintgermaine the time traveller)
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To: old curmudgeon

Childish loser.


13 posted on 04/19/2018 7:01:32 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Da Coyote; vette6387; rodguy911; Liz; Jane Long; sheik yerbouty; left that other site; ...

These two piles of excrement along with the rest of their cabal will have rectal exams of their actions in the past soon enough. All these vile Liberals won’t like the light of day shining on their backgrounds and past deeds, ya think? They like to dish it out, but won’t like it coming back to them.


14 posted on 04/19/2018 7:23:06 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Kaslin

I think the guy has an ego roughly the size of the African continent, and THAT is why he “reopened” the investigation into Hillary Clinton.


15 posted on 04/19/2018 7:24:45 AM PDT by youthphil
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To: Kaslin

Congratulations! Every time Stephanopoulos ever gets referenced. It should mention his role during the Clinton administration.


16 posted on 04/19/2018 7:26:39 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
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To: Kaslin
Every time the left criticizes Trump's morality, they completely overlook the fact that the American people elected him president knowing full well about him. More than any candidate ever, Trump's life was well known to the public for decades.
17 posted on 04/19/2018 7:28:43 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: youthphil

I believe you are right on.


18 posted on 04/19/2018 7:34:34 AM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: mosesdapoet

I forgot to add this to my comment: Every time Stephanopoulos ever gets referenced. It should mention his role during the Clinton administration.

That rule should apply to all these media phoneys presenting themselves as “independent urinalists” .


19 posted on 04/19/2018 7:46:02 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

I could not have said it any better.


20 posted on 04/19/2018 7:52:18 AM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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