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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservatives Say Comey Set a Trap for Trump
April 23, 2018 at 11:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Jonathan Chait: Former FBI Director James Comey has been telling the world about his harrowing encounters with President Trump, who repeatedly demanded his personal loyalty, implored him to stop investigating Michael Flynn, and then dispatched his personal bodyguard to fire him when he failed to comply. But what if we have the story backwards? What if Trump, an innocent family business operator, naïve to the ways of Washington, had been accosted by a scheming, predatory deep state operator? And what if Comeys firing was a defensive measure against his nefarious trap? This is the scenario Trumps defenders now envision, and have laid out in columns by The Federalists Mollie Hemingway and the Washington Examiners Byron York.
Hemingways theory is that CNN had the Steele dossier, and could not cover it unless it had a news hook to do so. Comeys meeting was designed to be the hook. He would tell Trump about the dossier, and then leak the fact that he told Trump to the news media, which provided them the very news hook they sought and needed to report on the dossier.
Yorks analysis is different than Hemmingways, but possibly even less plausible. York argues that Trumps request for loyalty was not an attempt to suborn the FBI into an instrument of his personal control, but instead a defensive and completely reasonable response to what looked like Comey blackmailing him.
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Conservatives Say Comey Set a Trap for Trump (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2018
OP
Conservative commentators say many things they dont believe, because they are disgenous assholes
emulatorloo
Apr 2018
#4
Remember: E European intel community told US counterparts in Aug 2016 Putin had kompromat
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2018
#5
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)1. What a bunch of hogwash
You pledge loyalty to the US Constitution. As long as the President is doing everything according to the Constitution, he has nothing to worry about.
Treason is not something that goes according to the constitution
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)2. I didnt realize there were this many traitors in America
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)3. Did you see that squirrel?
Look! Theres another one!
emulatorloo
(44,183 posts)4. Conservative commentators say many things they dont believe, because they are disgenous assholes
Whatever bullshit they think will sell and bamboozle their audience
That shit doesnt even make sense though.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)5. Remember: E European intel community told US counterparts in Aug 2016 Putin had kompromat