I’ve been watching the James Comey testimony all morning. To say it’s been a bad day for the left so far would be an understatement. Comey has trashed President Trump in several key ways, but the news he let leak about former Attorney General Loretta Lynch was previously unknown to the public. He said she had told him to refer to the Hillary Clinton investigation as a “matter” instead of what it actually was, an investigation. He also said that Bill Clinton’s now-famous tarmac meeting with Ms. Lynch let him to determine that he had to handle the “matter” independent of the Justice Department.
COMEY: "That was the thing that capped it for me that I had to do something independently" on Bill Clinton AG Lynch tarmac meeting
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) June 8, 2017
COMEY: AG Lynch told him to call Clinton email probe a "matter" and not an "investigation."
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) June 8, 2017
This alone is a pretty big bombshell. But that’s not all we heard this morning. Comey also admitted to using a friend from the Columbia Law School to leak the contents of one of his memos to The New York Times. This is the document that deals with Michael Flynn and says that Trump hoped the investigation matter involving him would be dropped. This is a rather stunning revelation, to say the least.
https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort/status/872836964537561089
Did I miss something or did Comey just say he asked a friend to leak information to the press? Is this a joke?
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/872838504358825985
Can we go back to the fact that Comey leaked memos and shared them with the media before Congress for political impact? #ComeyHearing https://t.co/mRCPcLEgJH
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) June 8, 2017
So, to recap, there’s been no bombshells dropped on Trump, but they have been at least two dropped on Comey and the Democrats. It’s been a pretty good day for Republicans so far and this testimony is shaping up to be of greater benefit to Trump than most anyone could have imagined before it got underway.
