06-14-2018, 10:12 PM
"I tend to agree that Comey didn't act out of personal political bias."
I disagree: Comey, like most people (including Trump), expected Clinton to win. Comey was afraid of being accused of holding back information if something really damaging later emerged. So he took steps to make sure that neither he nor the FBI could be accused of neglecting an important duty. He never wondered how this would look if Trump won, a fortiori if it helped sway the election.
The irony here is that it did help swing the election to Trump, who has, for well over a year, been on a crusade to discredit Comey and the FBI.
I disagree: Comey, like most people (including Trump), expected Clinton to win. Comey was afraid of being accused of holding back information if something really damaging later emerged. So he took steps to make sure that neither he nor the FBI could be accused of neglecting an important duty. He never wondered how this would look if Trump won, a fortiori if it helped sway the election.
The irony here is that it did help swing the election to Trump, who has, for well over a year, been on a crusade to discredit Comey and the FBI.