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1. Comey never trusted President Trump<\/strong> – Here\u2019s an exchange between Senator Mark Warner and James Comey…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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   WARNER<\/strong>: You’ve worked under presidents of both parties. What was it about that meeting that led you to determine that you needed to start putting down a written record?
   \nCOMEY<\/strong>: A combination of things. I think the circumstances, the subject matter, and the person I was interacting with…. I was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting<\/em><\/strong> so I thought it important to document. That combination of things I had never experienced before, but had led me to believe I got to write it down and write it down in a very detailed way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

   In his first meeting with the then President-elect, Comey knew that he\u2019d have to record his conversations, in a way that he didn\u2019t have to with President Obama or President Bush. That\u2019s pretty noteworthy, that the sitting Director of the FBI was keeping records of conversations with the President because he figured he\u2019d need them for his own protection.<\/p>\n

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   1. We will never be done talking about Hillary\u2019s emails<\/strong> – There were a number of times when questioning returned to the topic of Bill Clinton\u2019s infamous meeting with former attorney general Loretta Lynch on a Phoenix tarmac. It was easy to forget that the purpose of this hearing was to gauge whether or not the President might\u2019ve obstructed justice and to give context to the Comey memos. However, there were still more than 20 mentions of a closed investigation about Hillary Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server, an investigation where she was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. That investigation closed 11 months ago, and Donald Trump has been President for nearly 6 months. Yet, every hearing that involves putting a magnifying glass up to the activities of the President, somehow always circles back to Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails. The line of questioning by Senator John Cornyn and others suggest that we should look forward to continued discussion of Hillary Clinton, no matter how many the topic of a congressional hearing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. There\u2019s still more information to come<\/strong> – There has been a constant drip of information., Every day we learn more about the activities of the President and his associates. We haven\u2019t seen the full content of the Comey memos, so it stands to reason that more will be revealed as they are published in the press. There\u2019s also the matter of Mike Flynn, who hasn\u2019t testified before the Senate. Comey repeated several times that a criminal investigation is underway, and it seems unlikely that Flynn is so loyal to the President that he would continue to refuse to cooperate if it meant possible criminal prosecution. This is also true of Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Jared Kushner who is due to testify sometime in the near future. There are many unanswered questions, but luckily for Congress, we have identified the people who would know the answers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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         1. Donald Trump is scared<\/strong> – Maybe the President of the United States and his campaign colluded with Russia to influence the results of last year’s election. Maybe Trump\u2019s associates are guilty of money laundering, and the business connections in Russia are more than just unethical. Maybe everything in the Steele dossier is true, urine fetish and all. However, maybe none of it is true, and Trump, as he has repeatedly claimed, actually doesn\u2019t know anything about Russia. Regardless, the President\u2019s behavior suggests that he\u2019s worried about something. Trump was noticeably silent during the hearing today after promising he\u2019d live-tweet the event, and his interactions with Comey suggest that he is deeply paranoid about something. The demand for loyalty, the asking people to leave the room, and the constant questioning of whether he was being investigated\u2026. Trump may claim that the Russia story is fake news, but he doesn\u2019t seem to think so. Currently there\u2019s quite a bit of smoke, but Trump looks to be feeling the fire.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            The Republican Party is now Trump\u2019s Party – When given the opportunity to question fired FBI Director James Comey, Republicans finally had the chance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":37187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2119,162,2347,16,202,2826],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n