April 18, 2018
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
He's confused. Indecisive. And his favorite quote is, "I don't know the answer to that."
This week, in a "20/20" interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, even "Clinton War Room Strategist" George was perplexed by Comey's naive, yet arrogant, answers.
For a G-man, Comey looked like a hot mess. And for a man who sat at the highest level in our country's intelligence community, he didn't seem to know much about anything.
"Do you think the Russians have something on Donald Trump?" George dutifully asked.
"I think it's possible. I don't know," Comey responded.
"What do you think the Special Counsel will find?" "I don't know," Comey replied.
He did remember shrimp scampi was served at a private dinner he had with the president, but couldn't remember who told him there might be a connection between e-mails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop and the Clinton e-mail investigation.
"Was this Andrew McCabe?" George asked.
"I think it was Andy McCabe, but I'm not certain. I didn't store that in any prominent place in my brain because how could that possibly be?"
"But how could that not be something you remember?"
"I think the answer is because how could that possibly be true? How could there be a connection between Anthony Weiner's laptop and Hillary Clinton's e-mails?"
I don't know. Maybe because Weiner's wife worked for Hillary?
"I think it was just a passing comment to me," Comey said. "And I'm sure I stored it away thinking, 'Okay. Well, that doesn't make any sense, but I'm sure they'll tell me if it does."
And it did.
"It's led your critics to say that the FBI, for several weeks, sat on the knowledge that they had several thousand Hillary Clinton's e-mails," George said.
"Yeah. Hundreds of thousands, on Anthony Weiner's laptop. And I don't know the answer to that criticism..
"I don't know if the Bureau team could have moved faster.
"There's an Inspector General investigation going on about our work on that investigation...But I don't know the answer to that now."
He said he didn't know much about Hillary Clinton except what he got "from the media, that she was "a hard worker."
"That's about it," he said.
Maybe he should have asked his "amazing spouse." During the interview, he proudly stated that Patrice and his daughters, were big-time Hillary supporters, and had attended the 2017 Women's Anti-Trump March.
"I didn't vote in the 2016 election," he said, because, as FBI director, he was "trying to be outside of politics."
He was annoying, especially when, as a guy, he showed way too much interest in Trump's eyes and tie and hair, but he's been annoying for a long time, long before he published his Tell-All Book, a tale about a love affair between Jim Comey and Jim Comey.
The question now is not, "Why was he fired," but "Why was he hired in the first place?"
Large and in charge, Comey acts like an insecure teen-aged girl, constantly checking in with himself.
"How do I feel about that?" "What should I do?" And "I'm scared to be in a meeting with the president."
"Maybe I can blend into the blue drapes over there," he recalled thinking, after he was invited to join a meeting of Law Enforcement Officials and the president shortly after the president was sworn into office.
"I remember the walk...it seemed like 1,000 yards across the Oval Blue Room,...and my family's had a lot of fun watching my face as I walk across...because they know it's my 'Oh, no face.'"
I remember, too, that the president welcomed him warmly at a time when James Comey was taking a lot of heat from all sides. That's what I remember. A gracious welcome.
Comey is certainly no "Just the facts, ma'am" Joe Friday, or a Rudy Giulani, a man who successfully prosecuted the American mafia, and who actually knows what a real Mob Boss looks like.
"Did you tell him (Trump) that the Steele Dossier had been financed by his political opponents?"
"No, I didn't."
"Did he have a right to know that?"
"I don't know the answer to that. It wasn't necessary for my goal, which was to alert him that we had this information."
So what was Comey's "goal?" George should have asked. But we already know the answer.
Comey would say it had to do with "A Higher Loyalty." But loyalty to whom? Not to the president. Not to the American people.
No. Comey's goal was to use the information to blackmail President Trump.
Whatever Comey does seems to play clearly in his own mind, but is not evident to those of us who live in the real world.
Just suppose Comey had simply done his job? Suppose he told Donald Trump the truth, that the Dossier was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton?
Then none of this would have happened.
But that isn't who James Comey is. Instead he is the type of man who said to George Clintonopoulos:
"I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don't know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013."
"It's possible," Comey said, "But I don't know."
Of course he doesn't. But he said it anyway.
Hold the line, America.
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