Trump Hints at ‘Jail Time’ For Comey After Admission FBI Spied On Trump Campaign

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President Donald Trump hinted James Comey is set for a long spell behind bars after the former FBI director was forced to admit that he was wrong about the FBI’s spying on a Trump campaign aide.

President Donald Trump hinted James Comey is set for a long spell behind bars after the former FBI director was forced to admit that he was wrong about the FBI’s spying on a Trump campaign aide.

Comey and other intelligence community leaders claimed for years that the FBI’s applications to spy on Carter Page, the aide, were done correctly. But Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz shredded those claims in a report released last week, revealing 17 significant errors or omissions and additional errors made in following internal guidelines.

“He’s right, I was wrong,” Comey admitted on Sunday.

“I was overconfident in the procedures that the FBI and justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. It’s incredibly hard to get a FISA. I was overconfident in those. Because he’s right. There was real sloppiness, 17 things that either should’ve been in the applications or at least discussed and characterized differently. It was not acceptable and so he’s right. I was wrong,” he added.

Trump reacted on Twitter, writing: “So now Comey’s admitting he was wrong. Wow, but he’s only doing so because he got caught red-handed.”

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“He was actually caught a long time ago. So what are the consequences for his unlawful conduct. Could it be years in jail? Where are the apologies to me and others, Jim?” Trump added.

Trump also took aim at Horowitz, who wrote in the report that his team didn’t find evidence of political bias among FBI officials but admitted in a Senate hearing, “I think it’s fair for people to sit there and look at all of these 17 events and wonder how it could be purely incompetence.”

“It’s unclear what the motivations were. On the one hand, gross incompetence, negligence? On the other hand, intentionality, and where in between? We weren’t in a position—with the evidence we had—to make that conclusion. But I’m not ruling it out,” he also said.

Trump said that it was obvious actions by the FBI were motivated by bias.

“As bad as the I.G. Report is for the FBI and others, and it is really bad, remember that I.G. Horowitz was appointed by Obama. There was tremendous bias and guilt exposed, so obvious, but Horowitz couldn’t get himself to say it. Big credibility loss. Obama knew everything!” he said in another missive on Twitter on Sunday.

Comey said on Sunday that he was responsible for what happened but claimed he did not know that FBI agents uncovered damaging information about ex-British spy Christopher Steele, whose salacious dossier played a “central and essential role” in getting the FISA warrant to spy on Page.

“As the director, you’re not kept informed on the details of an investigation. So, no, in general, I didn’t know what they’d learned from the sub-source. I didn’t know the particulars of the investigation,” Comey said.

He also said that Horowitz didn’t find misconduct by any FBI personnel, despite Horowitz referring FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith for criminal prosecution.

“The Inspector General did not find misconduct by FBI personnel, did not find political bias, did not find illegal conduct. The Inspector General found significant mistakes, and that is not something to sneeze at; that’s really important,” Comey said. “But the American people—especially your viewers—need to realize, they were given false information about the FBI. It’s honest. It is not political. It is flawed.”

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

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6 Comments

  1. Not kept informed, eh? Seems a little unlikely since the orders came down from the Obama White House. So at what level was there someone who was kept informed? The typist? Whichever level they pick to take the blame, they are going to say that the level above them knew or came with the orders. That is how this pathetic excuse comes unraveled. Moreover, there is a level below which they don’t have the executive authority to make these sorts of decisions, and I can’t imagine that level is many steps below Comey, and probably no further down than McCabe or James Baker.

  2. Trump hints at jail time, are you kidding me… The coup d’état has never stopped against “We the People” or the POTUS, he is in CYA mode; the invasion continues, the cover-up continues, we have 2 Commissars watching over our Commander-In-Chief; what are all these crazy anti-semitism laws and why is our military invading other countries? We are hemorrhaging blood & treasure for what? I am usually cool under fire but this takes the cake. We heard the same about the clintons and then “they are good people”, LIAR

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