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June 16, 2023

Discredited FBI director James Comey has suddenly come out of retirement, touring liberal talk shows  and promoting a new book that desperately rewrites history and gaslights the American people.

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The worst problem for Comey, however, is his track record of corruption — one so vast and well documented that no promotional book tour can fix it.

Most Americans will never forget the congressional hearings regarding the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.  Members of Congress wanted answers, questioning whether or not then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton had failed to provide appropriate security for assassinated ambassador John Christopher Stevens and the consulate staff.  As part of the congressional investigation, it came to light that Secretary Clinton had illegally been utilizing a private email account and an unsecured server, by which classified documents were sent.

The resulting political and legal firestorm rocked the nation and resulted in a year-long FBI investigation.  In the end, Comey came before the American people with apparently cut-and-dried evidence that Clinton — the Democrat running for president at the time — had committed multiple federal crimes.  In his highly anticipated public statement, Comey claimed that over 100 Clinton emails contained information that should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent, including 65 emails deemed “Secret” and 22 deemed “Top Secret.”  An additional 2,093 emails were retroactively designated confidential by the State Department.

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Yet, despite overwhelming evidence, Comey made one of the most partisan decisions in the FBI’s history.  He concluded his dramatic presentation by stating that “although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”

Comey’s reputation and fidelity to the rule of law could never be trusted again.  But that didn’t matter to him.  Comey had done his job — to protect Clinton at all costs.

Although the Democrat avoided any legal repercussions, the political fallout was devastating.  Clinton’s campaign desperately needed to change the narrative — and fast.  Enter the infamous “Steele dossier.”  Campaign staffers, attorneys, and Hillary herself devised a plan to accuse Donald Trump and his campaign of working with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.  The Clinton campaign paid British spy Christopher Steele, who interviewed Russian sources, to produce a fraudulent document that they could provide to the mainstream media to spin their devious tale.

Unclassified documents now show that CIA director John Brennan met with both President Obama and Vice President Biden early in July 2016, informing them that the Clinton campaign had conspired to develop the Steele dossier, which falsely maligned Donald Trump’s campaign.  On July 31st, 2016, Comey opened an investigation into the Clinton allegation, mere weeks after being briefed by Christopher Steele himself.

As is clearly outlined in the recently published Durham Report, there was absolutely no predicate by which the FBI should have opened any investigation into the unfounded accusation.  Not only did Comey open a sham investigation, but FBI assistant general counsel Kevin Clinesmith (who has since pleaded guilty) lied to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about altering evidence in an effort to secure an otherwise unlawful warrant to spy on Trump campaign staffer and CIA informant Carter Page.

Mounting evidence of Comey’s corruption and seditious behavior only gets worse.  On January 5, 2017, following Trump’s election, Obama, national security adviser Susan Rice, Comey, and others met to discuss how to manage the “Russia collusion” myth.  Shortly thereafter, Comey met with President-Elect Trump and told him about the Steele dossier’s existence.  As part of their conversation, Comey assured Trump that he was “not the subject of any investigation.”  Trump also happened to mention that he hoped the FBI would go easy on soon-to-be national security adviser Michael Flynn.