As I expected, this email thing turned out to be a whole lot of nothing. I wonder if this will actually help Clinton on Tuesday, or if it's too late at this point. Comey is such a jackass. If it weren't for that ridiculous letter, this race wouldn't even be close right now.
As I expected, this email thing turned out to be a whole lot of nothing. I wonder if this will actually help Clinton on Tuesday, or if it's too late at this point. Comey is such a jackass. If it weren't for that ridiculous letter, this race wouldn't even be close right now.
It may have removed some voter complacency but I think it's all a big non-story at this point.
She went from 81% to 65% on 538 since the first Comey letter, but it's hard to say how much of that was the letter and how much of that was just republicans returning home as was kind of expected.
I wonder what Clinton will do with Comey. There's clearly a big anti-Clinton cell within the FBI that can't just do their jobs, you'd think they need a leader that will focus on keeping the agents on task rather than one that sets the example of ignoring things to go their own way.
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Probably most relieved is Huma, she just went from having to probably live an anonymous life on a farm somewhere back to being able to have a key position in Clinton's staff.
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Ahahah
"The story of this election may be the mobilization of the Hispanic vote,” Graham told the New York Times. “So Trump deserves the award for Hispanic turnout. He did more to get them out than any Democrat has ever done.”
Ah now the deplorables are saying Comey found a horse head in his bed or was paid off since reviewing 650,000 emails would take reviewing 1 email per second.
They apparently haven't heard of computers.
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If Clinton wins I can almost guarantee there will be a purge.
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As I expected, this email thing turned out to be a whole lot of nothing. I wonder if this will actually help Clinton on Tuesday, or if it's too late at this point. Comey is such a jackass. If it weren't for that ridiculous letter, this race wouldn't even be close right now.
I disagree with this. I don't think the letter affected the election. The high point after the debates was artificial. Republicans were always going to come back to Trump late so a tightening was inevitable. Like I said earlier the scandal took .4 points off of Clintons number. The bulk of the gains were people coming back to Trump.
If Clinton wins I can almost guarantee there will be a purge.
"This ain't like your agency. You piss them off, you ride the boat, here, well, you come into work one morning and find yourself assigned to some dustbowl Indian res in Arkansas."
I thought that positions like the director of the FBI were Congressional Appointments, so I don't think she can just walk in and fire him, I believe that she can demand his resignation, which could open an ugly fight.
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Two days until the election and still nothing about Trumps tax records.
How he managed to get away with that one, I'll never know.
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Seems as though his base wouldn't care if he was a convicted serial killer. They'd still vote for him.
The important thing to remember with his tax returns is if there's one thing that's been important to him and his supporters it's that he's a rich, successful business man.
Don't underestimate that narrative. Him and his supporters will gleefully toss out every other lie with out batting an eye, but him not being anywhere as wealthy as he claims is the one thing that would hurt his ego and likely his standing with America's uneducated, disenfranchised citizens.
Everything he says and does is a willful lie to mock American "democracy", but his bull**** only stands up because of his success. If he was worth say $300 million instead of the $10bil he claims.......no that's not something he'd happily add to the pile of lies his supporters eat up.
He was never going to release them, it's the one lie he needed to keep to himself to allow every other lie to work.
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I thought that positions like the director of the FBI were Congressional Appointments, so I don't think she can just walk in and fire him, I believe that she can demand his resignation, which could open an ugly fight.
FBI Director is nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate (Obama nominated Comey in an attempt to be non-partisan, how well that worked out).
Usually the FBI director has a fixed term of 10 years. A president can fire an FBI director, or Congress can impeach them.
The only FBI director to ever have been fired is William S. Sessions, who was fired by, after repeated requests to step down, Bill Clinton.
Clinton might not want to do that though, if she does that does that increase the risk of Congress assigning a special prosecutor? Maybe she tires to work with Comey and the DoJ keeps him on a tighter leash and Comey works to get the FBI back on track?
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Donald Trump on Sunday stepped up his attacks on Muslim refugees, saying they will bring “generations of terrorism” into the US, adding that Minnesota had “suffered enough” since the state has become home to Somali refugees.
Refers to a stabbing as a "terrorist knife attack", as an example of the disaster that is refugees in Minnesota. The guy who did the stabbing came to the US as a 3 month old.
