Quote (IceMage @ 4 Sep 2022 21:19)
These narratives are always wrong though. The narrative of the Trump cult about 2016 was an FBI, DOJ, and Obama administration going after Trump's campaign in order to bring him down. While the reality is that the FBI and DOJ investigated with proper cause without revealing the investigation in the media. At the same time, Hillary was investigated during the campaign, she gave an interview to the FBI(something Trump never did), and when the investigation concluded, the FBI Director went on national television and smeared her for her non-criminal actions. The same FBI Director went on to announce the re-opening of the investigation before the election. These actions almost surely resulted in Trump getting elected.
Just for the record: the Clinton campaign and the Obama admin obtained a warrant to spy on Trump's campaign, based on blatantly lying to the FISA court about the completely untrustworthy nature of their source. Yes, the investigation wasn't made public at the time, but you can be assured that they would have gleefully released any findings about Trump collusion with Russia.
A week before the election, Comey goes public about the reopened investigation into Hillary, based on Anthony Wiener's laptop. He didn't do that out of impartial dutifulness, he did it to preemptively protect his agency from any suspicion of being in cahoots with the incoming Clinton administration when the public learns that they sat on potentially damaging material before the election. We can be fairly sure that Comey would not have made this announcement if he had know that Trump has a real chance to win, based on the extremely hostile stance and actions Comey showed with regard to Trump after the election.
And then, after Trump was sworn in, the same investigation - which was based on a faulty source and deceiving the court - was weaponized to undermine Trump's presidency for years with accusations of Russia collusion, only for Mueller to in the end conclude that the alleged collusion could not be established.
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Now we have Trump, the ex-president, who took several boxes of highly classified information home with him. The National Archives tried to get it all back, Trump refused, they referred to DOJ. Trump returned some stuff, not others. DOJ subpoenas all material. Trump returns more stuff, his lawyer says it's all returned, DOJ acquires evidence that's a lie, they search Trump's house, they find more material. Trump took this material without authorization and stored it in a location without authorization, and then obstructed an investigation aimed at getting it back.
I'll concede that Trump really fucked up here, and that he stupidly gave the FBI more grounds for the raid than I had initially given them credit for. But like I've stressed repeatedly: the FBI, and the intelligence community at large, had been in more or less open revolt against Trump throughout his entire presidency, they did everything in their power to undermine him. Trump is a buffoon who constantly self-sabotages and gets himself in trouble, but at the same time, the swamp was and still is genuinely out to get him.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Sep 5 2022 03:06am