ICYWW, here’s Trump’s entirely unpredictable reaction to the FBI
by digby
Even though James Comey is a Republican who served in the bush administration — he wuz robbed:
“The system is rigged. General Petraeus got in trouble for far less. Very very unfair! As usual, bad judgment,” Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, tweeted right after Comey’s press conference.
He added in another tweet: “FBI director said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow! #RiggedSystem”
The rest of the GOP followed suit, condemning the GOP FBI chief for failing to dutifully recommend an indictment:
“While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, Trump’s most prominent political supporter, said in a statement. “No one should be above the law.”
“Hillary may not be POTUS, but she’ll be on the Winter Olympic team for ice skating, no one has successfully skated on more thin ice than her,” former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee tweeted.
“If Hillary were still Sec State, Pres O would have to fire her. But instead, he travels with her and seeks to promote her. Disgusting,” wrote Ari Fleischer, a press secretary for President George W. Bush.
The prevailing GOP theme is that there was some kind of corrupt deal between Obama, Clinton, Lynch and James Comey that kept her from an indictment. The prevailing coverage from the press is that because Comey took the unprecedented step of holding a press conference to lay out evidence in a case for which he will not recommend a prosecution, it means that the “optics” are so bad that “the narrative” is that she is in real trouble even though she is not legally liable and many other government officials have used exactly the same practices.
Meanwhile, Trump is still dealing with the fallout of his ongoing association with neo-Nazis so both sides do it.
And the horse race is back on! Yeehaw!
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