James Comey was prepared to exonerate Hillary Clinton last July and drafted a letter stating this. He did this after interviewing Clinton’s aides and before interviewing Clinton herself.
But Trump is hopping mad because it looks like Comey’s investigation was ending without a long term prison sentence, which is what everyone who either voted for Trump or didn’t vote at all was expecting.
Now, there are two conclusions you can draw from this. The Republican conclusion is that Comey wasn’t thorough enough and was failing to get with the plan to keep the email story front and center indefinitely.
Observing what happened shortly thereafter, where Comey had an unprecedented press conference condemning her highly irresponsible treatment of a handful of post email classified documents out of over 50000 emails sampled, it sure looks like someone applied partisan pressure on him to make the whole thing look like much more serious than it actually was.
You *could* conclude, as many Republicans did, that there had to be something there and Comey needed to go back and find it.
The other perfectly logical conclusion is that after he interviewed the aides, he determined that no laws were broken, nothing out of the ordinary happened that hadn’t happened before and there was no reason to keep the investigation open. That is a very plausible explanation. AND it has the benefit of being the least complicated explanation based on the facts.
But he trashed her anyway and then wrote that stupid letter just before the election and her lead vanished in a puff of smoke but no fire.
The pressure on him to make her look bad must have been intense. But he wouldn’t protect a law abiding citizen like Clinton the way he protected John Ashcroft back in the Alberto Gonzales days.
You got to wonder why he did it. Did he feel like he owed Republicans? Are there rogue elements in the FBI and why did he think it was Ok to go around his boss or her deputy Sally Yates?
Probably another case of not taking women seriously. The pressure was on and he decided to make a unilateral decision than have to sit in some kind of meeting with two women trying to come to a consensus or worse yet, have one of them tell him what to do.
Yeah another completely plausible scenario.
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The Confluence 
Fuck Comey! That is all I got.
And we have to point out that everyone of their mfers in the current WH is using private email server and emails and sent classified material. Hillary’s was a private server, dedicated and protected while these mfers are using trump organization server which is neither protected nor dedicated. Maybe that is a feature and not a bug for these corrupt mfers. Lock them up!
More on Russian influence, from Wonkette.
https://wonkette.com/624373/is-the-dumbass-youre-fighting-with-in-the-comments-just-a-dumbass-or-is-it-a-russian-dumbass
Yep, I was thinking about the same thing. Essentially, if there were any Republicans with legitimate differences, they have lost their voice to crazy Russians, once everyone ignores those comments.
From the comment thread of the Wonkette story to which I linked:
THIS SO MUCH.
Yes!
‘Are there rogue elements in the FBI?”
Duh!!!