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Biden faces his ‘Comey moment’

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/9/2024 10:39:31 AM

“It felt like a Comey moment for me.” That was the assessment of a top Biden campaign official watching special counsel Robert Hur’s report explode Thursday. In July 2016, FBI Director James Comey ripped into Hillary Clinton for being “extremely careless” with classified material and noted that there was “evidence of potential violations” of the law — assessments that played into a narrative that helped tank her presidential campaign. Then he delivered the actual news: “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” In a scathing report, the Justice Department’s inspector general later harshly criticized Comey for his actions.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dreadnought 2/9/2024 10:44:00 AM (No. 1654135)
This is the Democratic defense. Hur is not a Democrat. He's a Republican. Not just a Republican, he's a MAGA Republican (served in the Trump Justice Department.) Unspoken, he's of Asian descent (South Korean) educated at Harvard and Stanford. All that can trigger a progressive Democrat. The defense was all laid out, but then Biden went back in anger, took an election year (specifically Michigan) shot at Israel and very publically stumbled into Mexico (as briefly noted in this item.) Clown show.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jackdalton 2/9/2024 11:01:08 AM (No. 1654152)
But when it comes to prosecuting their opponents there are no reasonable prosecutors to be found.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: smokincol 2/9/2024 11:48:16 AM (No. 1654174)
this uber partisanship on the part of the demcommies is getting to the point of ridiculosity, first comey bails out PIAPS and now hur bails out diapers - only because they are demcommies and nothing else - neither lard bottom hillary nor diapers have any of the necessary qualities to hold the job at the WH but - yet, the demcommies keep raising them to the highest level of hierarchy as the head poobah in the federal government - the communization of the USofA must stop and, hopefully, the beginning of the erosion of the democrat / communist party will begin in November, 2024 -we must give our President and unprecedented majority in the House and Senate (minus mcconnell and the resident RINO's) and then watch the sparks fly
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Venturer 2/9/2024 12:32:43 PM (No. 1654207)
If either had been a Republican they would have found a reason to charge them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: XCenturion 2/9/2024 2:59:56 PM (No. 1654301)
I used to believe in a fair and impartial justice system until the Democrats weaponized the DOJ and our judiciary. As a retired law enforcement officer I am ashamed of the FBI, the partisan judges, and DA's that have seemingly infected our once great system of justice. Unless you've been living in a cave or under a rock it has become quite obvious that there is now a two-tiered system of justice in place in our country. Hillary was allowed by the FBI to destroy her emails that contained classified information. Then disgraced FBI Director James Comey decided a successful prosecution of her was unlikely therefore no charges were filed. Now the DOJ has determined that Joe Biden is too senile for his illegal storage and sharing of classified documents while a private citizen so he should not be prosecuted. But the corrupt DOJ, under the leadership of partisan Attorney General Merrick Garland, is full steam ahead in the prosecution (persecution) of former president Donald Trump. In other words if you're a Democrat you get a pass, but if you are Donald Trump or one of his supporters you get prosecuted to the full extend of the law. Just ask the January 6th political prisoners!
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