An outrageous amount of political bias
A reporter asks Sarah Sanders if Trump shouldn’t, rather than speaking just for himself and in his own interest, speak to and for the American people. She of course responds with a misdirection, explaining that the people elected Trump [they didn’t, actually] because they want his opinion and he should give it.
Then she explains how evil and unfair the FBI is.
We know for a fact that the FBI engaged in an outrageous amount of political bias, the fact that the FBI could deny that there was political bias within the FBI particularly under James Comey’s leadership is frankly just laughable.
But Comey was a lifelong Republican, until he ran up against Trump and his attempts to extort special treatment for Flynn. It seems quite plausible that Comey feels considerable distaste for Donald Trump, but his distaste is not political so much as it’s moral and law enforcemental. Trump is a bad man and a crook; that’s not so much political as ontological.
The irony is particularly strong when it comes to Comey, since without Comey’s thumb on the scales right before the election, we don’t have a President Trump to throw tantrums on Twitter. (I still firmly believe that Comey just massively underestimated the impact of his “But her emails” statement, expecting the result to not be President Dumpsterfire, but rather just a badly weakened and hobbled President Hillary. It would account for both the statement itself and his unwillingness to play ball with Trump afterwards, better than any other account I’ve heard since then, including Comey’s own explanations.)
Of course, that in and of itself is not necessarily a good thing, since what right does a single man have to decide which president gets weakened and hobbled? And, for the first woman president to be deliberately weakened? Then the argument that women aren’t capable of doing the job is strengthened, and women are set back another 50 years.
It’s a nasty thing to do, either way you cut it.
Iknklast:
Oh, most definitely. My belief is that he was doing a wicked, sleazy thing, and misjudged on top of that, causing a worse result even than what he was expecting.