Posted on 06/17/2018 9:38:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Breitbart, we’ll have to wait for the IG’s report on Russiagate to know for sure, won’t we? Maher’s take is certainly possible. Strzok wouldn’t be the first or last guy to reassure his girlfriend that he’ll protect her from the bad guys with no intention of actually doing anything about it. “Don’t you worry your pretty little head, darlin’. Strzok-y’s here.”
But the “virtual pillow talk” theory is somewhat harder to entertain in context. And there’s a lot of context:
I’ve mentioned the following passage from the DOJ report in half a dozen posts by now but it really can’t be stressed enough. The IG explicitly considered a scenario in which Strzok slow-walked the investigation into Anthony Weiner’s laptop because he was leery of doing something to hurt Hillary’s chances in the final weeks of the campaign. Strzok denied it, the IG couldn’t prove it, but Strzok’s bias against Trump was so amply supported by the evidence that the IG just couldn’t dismiss the possibility. That is to say, the authority on this matter, who spent months examining Strzok’s behavior, believes it’s perfectly plausible that Strzok really did let politics steer his investigative decisions.
Maher’s theory is strange when you consider that he’s as strongly anti-Trump as Strzok was, if not more so. Democrats have spent the last three days zeroed in on two topics that contradict each other to some extent: (1) Trump’s child-separation policy at the border is a fascist atrocity and indelible stain on America, and (2) there’s no evidence that Peter Strzok let his antipathy to the perpetrator of these fascist atrocities guide his actions during the Emailgate investigation. Er, by the left’s logic, shouldn’t he have? What would a member of the hashtag-Resistance have done in Strzok’s shoes? If you were an FBI agent convinced that Trump is a creature from the Book of Revelation, spawned by hell to wreck American democracy, and you were forced to decide in the home stretch of the campaign whether to pursue a damaging new lead against Hillary Clinton, what would you have done? What would Special Agent Bill Maher have done? Given the level of Maher-like alarm at Trump evinced by Strzok in his chats with Page, it’d be weird if he didn’t let his biases corrupt the investigation. Which is exactly why the IG is suspicious of his motives.
Then why did they leave that part out when originally subpoenaed? If it was so innocent.
The courtship phase had long since ceased; she was no longer his girlfriend, she was his whore.
So sex drove him to do It? Okay.
Sex has been the reason for many evil things in human history. This is just one more.
"Cmon, He Was Just Trying To Impress His Future Boss."
-PJ
Hey, stupid! Women are smart enough to know when a guy is simply trying to impress them with empty words and when someone is in a position to actually carry through with what they are saying. Either you are incredibly naive about women’s mental abilities, or it says something about the type of women you seek out.
HA! I told my husband this would be the excuse.... just showing off for his baby.
Bill Maher is a Democratic stooge.. after presenting all the Paige texts you are sitting in a jury could you buy Maher’s fantasy
Were they empty words or an actual plan?
Did you mean it, or did you just say it to impress him?
Bluster for your girlfriend starts with I not we.
And why should it take so awfully much to impress the girl friend? This is a HUGE promise.
And one Strzok was in no position to keep.
That old story about the break-in at the Watergate hotel? I’m pretty sure that was just Dick Nixon trying to impress Pat ...
The courtship phase had long since ceased; she was no longer his girlfriend, she was his whore.
,
,
yep
Perhaps Maher should remember that John Hinkley, Jr. was just trying to impress a hoped for girl friend when he attempted to assassinate President Reagan.
?
Bill Maher must have been impressed when Bill Clinton had Monica in the White House then.
LOL
Bluster for your girlfriend starts with I not we.
Maybe she was being passed around. (seriously though, I’ve seen zero evidence she was his girlfriend.)
Since he failed to perform said deed I’d say she was less than impressed.
New “effluent” coming from Bill Maher, “The Human Nose!” He should get a “real job” digging up truffles.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.