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Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 days ago

Comey Pleads Not Guilty and Launches Scorched Earth Defense

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Comey Pleads Not Guilty and Launches Scorched Earth Defense

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Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 days ago
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The former FBI director faces up to five years prison if convicted.

archive article: https://archive.is/FoekA

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    Actual scorched earth would be for Comey to say he charged Hillary in 2016 right before the election so that Trump would win.

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      This is the only right thing for him to do. Fuck him. I’m curious what he did to get on trumps bad side when I see him as only have helped Trump.

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      Masterful would be pulling out the message from Trump telling him to do that so that it would prejudice the voters. …and then a series of email detailing a story where Trump would threaten him to out him for one crime and making him commit a worse crime.

      Even then it wouldn’t sway the Johnsons and Greenes of the world, but it’d make for better reality TV than the Apprentice ever was.

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      I don’t think his persona allows for that. He seems to consider himself innocent in all this.

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        Most people do.

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      Clinton caused Clinton to lose.

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        It can be two things.

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          No it can’t, anyone that was willing to vote for Clinton would not have had their mind changed with the information released by Comey.

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            Except that if you look at polls prior to and immediately after Comey declaring he was investigating Clinton, there was a massive swing away from Clinton. So you’re wrong.

            https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/

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        Her failures do not excuse republican corruption.

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          No one ever implied any such thing

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            Edit: removed my own comment because I misread the conversation.

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