TigersInParis

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So how do you know Obama did not direct Comey to water down the Hillary investigation?

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Not even the shill writer who tweeted this is suggesting this text is evidence of that.

Although, he is lying when he says a text about Obama being briefed is evidence that Obama was "directly involved", because a briefing is not the same as interfering.

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You might have a point if it weren’t for Dems, the media and Comey himself all trying to crucify Trump for this very same thing.

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Trump demanding personal loyalty, directing Comey to drop investigations, pressuring Wray to fire McCabe, and constantly publicly demanding that the FBI investigate Hillary Clinton and, in fact, all Democrats is not even close to the same thing.

Oh my God! The president received an update on an investigation into Russian interference in our electoral system! I am OUTRAGED!

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I really hope Nunez' exact response to the FBI request was "kiss my shithole".

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Who’s this Nunez guy you’re all so hard for?

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Repubs were never going to threaten CHIP so that's a retarded talking point.

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If Republicans cared about funding CHIP, it would have been funded BEFORE they let it lapse for 4 months. Democrats have been pushing for CHIP for months now. McConnell promised Susan Collins to address CHIP before the end 2017 in order to get her vote on the tax bill and then screwed her over.

Republicans used CHIP as leverage to get Democrats to agree to a CR without addressing DACA first. Now CHIP is no longer a point of leverage. In three weeks, if McConnell breaks his promise about immigration compromise, or if Ryan blocks it in the house, or if Trump vetos it, there will be another shutdown. They will try to stir up anti-Democrat sentiment by claiming the shutdown is anti-military, but that won't be very effective considering Democrats have been pushing for legislation that would ensure military pay continues during a shutdown and McConnell has been blocking it.

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I would let them stay, but they'd have to get in line with all the others already in the process of trying to get legal immigration status.

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So, what you're saying is, firstly - you would allow them to remain in the country, and secondly - you would provide a path for them to seek legal immigration status while doing so.

Tell me... how is that not amnesty?

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He needs to go nuclear and get the gov't reopened. There is no excuse for allowing another party hold the gov't hostage just because you don't wish to break with some archaic senate rule that is not written in the constitution.

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Honest question. Did you say also say this when Cruz lead a government shutdown demanding that Obamacare be defunded?

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What more do you want?

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He’s already broken those promises. There’s no reason to think he won’t break it again this time.

If he’s willing to allow a clean DACA vote on February 8th, why not just do it now? It makes no sense.

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He had testified to Congress he would inform them if the investigation was reopened (not sure of exact phrasing) so had he not informed them he would have faced charges

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He absolutely DID NOT testify to that. This is the quote that dishonest pundits have used to claim that he promised to notify Congress if the investigation was reopened.

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LAMAR SMITH ------- My first question is this: Would you reopen the Clinton investigation if you discovered new information that was both relevant and substantial?

JAMES COMEY ------ It is hard for me to answer in the abstract. We would certainly look at any new and substantial information.

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He said the FBI would look at any new information, but he absolutely did not imply in any way that he would break FBI policy against commenting on ongoing investigations and inform congress of any future changes. The idea that he did is just another "alternative fact" (read: lie) that dishonest right wing pundits have pushed on people too lazy to check the facts themselves.

When the FBI informed the DOJ of the letter Comey was sending, the justification that they gave was that Giuliani's thugs in the New York office were going to leak the information anyway.

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Most likely, it wasn't a clean bill.

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:lol:

Whatever you need to tell yourself to stay convinced Republicans arent using soldiers as a political football, right?

Never mind that McConnell pledged last week to hold a vote on continuing to pay the military and could easily introduce his own to do so if he actually cared about the military and their families.