In a very entertaining series of comments made on the government public access broadcaster C-SPAN in the wake of former FBI Director James Comey being indicted by a federal grand jury, a liberal caller tried claiming that Mr. Comey had done nothing wrong, leading to an entertaining back-and-forth between the host and the caller.
As background, Mr. Comey was originally indicted on two charges, one of which was making false statements to Congress and the other of which was obstruction of a congressional proceeding. The charges stem from Mr. Comey’s allegedly false testimony about the FBI’s involvement in the 2016 Russia Hoax and related investigation before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 30, 2020.
In any case, the anchor involved was C-SPAN’s Greta Brawner, who allows her viewers to call into her morning show. During the entertaining moment on the show, Brawner listened as the caller, a male who identified himself as a Democrat, insisted that Mr. Comey was perfectly in the clear.
In fact, the caller insisted that Mr. Comey “did nothing wrong” while serving as the Director of the the FBI, including with his now-infamous Russiagate investigation into President Donald Trump. The man said, “His record speaks for itself. He’s a very honorable man. He served his country. He did everything by the book.”
Entertainingly, Brawner responded to that by using her tablet to pull up, as he spoke, a 2019 story from the Associated Press in which the outlet, one known for its liberal sympathies, alleged that Mr. Comey “violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Trump.”
Branwer then read off details from the story, noting that the Inspector General in fact concluded Comey broke Bureau protocols by “giving the contents of one memo to a friend with instructions to share the information with a reporter.” Further, Brawner noted that the story claimed, “‘Comey also failed to return his memos to the FBI after he was dismissed in May of 2017, retaining copies of some of them in his personal safe at home, and sharing them with his personal lawyer without permission from the FBI.”
Brawner then asked the Democratic caller what he thought of those details, as they prove that Mr. Comey did not, in fact, behave as an angel when atop the FBI. The furious caller responded by saying, “That’s the cost of doing business, okay!” He then launched into a lengthy diatribe about Trump’s supposed sins.
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Doing so, he declared, sputtering and practically yelling at her as he did so, “What about that? Did that ever get followed up on? What about all of the things he’s done making his own Bitcoin? Going after his political enemies? What about selling cars for Elon Musk on the White House lawn? If any other president had did that, especially Obama, what would we be hearing from the Republicans?”
Watch the incident here:
President Trump, for his part, has posted repeatedly on Truth Social about Comey’s arrest since it happened on Thursday, September 25. In one such post, he said, “I’d like to thank Kash Patel, and the outstanding members of the FBI, for their brilliant work on the recent Indictment of the Worst FBI Director in the History of our Country, James “Dirty Cop” Comey.”
Adding to that post, he said, “The level of enthusiasm by the FBI was incredible, but only caused by the fact that they knew Comey for what he is, and was, a total SLIMEBALL! Again, thank you to the FBI and, specifically, those that worked on this case with U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, and the DOJ. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT”
Similarly, in another post, he said, “JUSTICE IN AMERICA! One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former Corrupt Head of the FBI. Today he was indicted by a Grand Jury on two felony counts for various illegal and unlawful acts. He has been so bad for our Country, for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video