First it was Hillary Clinton Herself, making speeches this past week and noting that, in her words, she had been exonerated by the FBI in the email scandal investigation they did. The networks that actually feel free not to kiss her backside, i.e., Fox, immediately presented things she said in those speeches juxtaposed with the FBI director saying the opposite.
Hillary would say that the FBI said she did not do X, Y and Z, and then you would see a clip of FBI director James Comey saying in his press conference, or in his testimony before Congress that, in fact, she had indeed done X, Y and Z.
Hillary would be shown in the speeches saying that she had told the truth about not doing X, Y and Z, and there would be the clip of Comey's testimony that she had lied to the public, or to Congress or to the FBI and that she had done X, Y and Z.
Friday we had Bill Clinton Himself joining in. On the question of the emails, Bill called the email flap a "bunch of bull" and said that the FBI had only found "three little markings" in all those emails and that "nothing else was marked classified". Had a network done the old "what did the Director actually say" thing, it would have noted that over a hundred of the emails contained marked classified content, and that over 2,000 emails contained actual classified information.
At least someone would have noted that the Clintons repeatedly narrow their statements to use the term "marked classified", as if that even matters. It does not; classified material, as I have written repeatedly, is classified regardless of markings and the Secretaries of State know that. But you just keep watching; she will repeatedly use the term "marked classified", assuming the lemmings and the media, the toadies and sycophants, won't know the difference.
So here we have the Clintons publicly lying about what the FBI found and what the FBI Director actually said.
James Comey is thought to be a good man and a man of honor. He has no specific obligation to Hillary or Bill Clinton, and there is no doubt that he is fully aware of the Clinton Cash revelations of the corruption that Hillary practiced while Secretary of State, including selling access,, influence and, finally, uranium, to Russians and others with issues before the State Department.
James Comey now knows that the Clinton Foundation is a steaming pot of corruption, funded by donations given to curry favor with the Clintons, including while Hillary was in office. He cannot like that too much.
But there is a limit to everyone's patience.
And I truly believe that the next, or the next after that, or soon enough, one of those Clinton declarations of what the FBI Director said that was clearly not what he said, will be the last straw. And when that comes, it will not be pretty.
James Comey, the theoretically unimpeachable FBI Director will call a press conference and declare that Hillary and Bill Clinton have been repeatedly lying about what the FBI found and what the FBI Director said, and that their lying has violated his integrity and called into question what he and the FBI actually did find.
Comey will say that he refuses to allow them to lie about what he said and what the FBI did, and that from this point he will refute everything they say that is incorrect, and play fact-checker for their comments and answers -- even in the upcoming debates.
He is a man of honor and needs to retain his honor. I would like to hope that at this point he truly has had it with the Clintons and their lies.
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Apparently that day was this past Friday. The lava is still flowing.
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