Trump Cries ‘Rigged System!’ Amid Claims Comey ‘Exonerated’ Clinton Early

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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President Donald Trump was quick to pounce on Republican senators’ claim that former FBI Director James Comey started to draft his statement about not pursuing criminal charges against Hillary Clinton before the FBI had completed its investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

Trump tweeted about the revelation on Friday morning, reveling in the opportunity to bash his former presidential opponent and the “rigged system.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday asking for more information on Comey’s decision-making process in clearing Clinton. In the letter, the senators cited redacted transcripts of interviews with FBI officials who said that Comey began drafting a statement “exonerating” Clinton in May 2016, before the FBI interviewed Clinton and other key aides for its probe.

“The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts,” the senators wrote in their letter. “The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy.”

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  1. They are starting to get desperate if they are digging THAT up, over a year after it happened.

    Cornered rats lash out at anyone and anything, but this is just Trump’s lawyers “Working the Refs” to try to discredit Comey.

    Transparent but their only avenue of defense at this point.

    The rules of lawyering:

    1. If the charges are against you, attack the evidence.
    2. If the evidence is against you, attack the witness.
    3. If the witness is against you, attack the law.
    4. If the law is against you, pound on the table.

    They are Stage 2.

  2. Next up:
    Trump’s recap of the Electoral College results.

  3. You can almost smell the fear.

    ETA: Perhaps Don the Con just heard about this report from Andy Borowitz about the FBI special ordering a pair of very small, tiny handcuffs…

    (Gotta love Borowitz…!)

  4. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    the senators wrote in their letter

    Unaware irony was lurking…

  5. criminal charges against Hillary Clinton before the FBI had completed its investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state

    That sounded like small potatoes back in the day. Now it looks like miniature petite fingerlings.

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