Vox’s Ezra Klein tweets a helpful reminder that criticism of the FBI and former FBI Director James Comey is totally OK as long as you are a liberal. Because if you’re a conservative, this kind of statement is treasonous, or something:
It will never stop being weird to me that after the FBI Director cost Clinton the election — in part on the rationale that the FBI was so anti-Clinton the reopened investigation would leak if he didn't announce it — we are now debating whether the FBI is biased against Trump.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) January 30, 2018
You see, according to Klein, there was a huge conspiracy at the FBI to help elect Trump. And then Trump fired Comey? It’s so confusing:
Trump would not be president if the FBI had not intervened, outside of normal protocol, on his behalf. And the Clinton investigation they announced turned up nothing, while the investigation into his team's activities that they did not announce uncovered real problems. It's nuts.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) January 30, 2018
And it’s disgusting that Klein besmirches the good people at the FBI to protect Clinton!
If only there was some way Hillary could have avoided being investigated… https://t.co/zbvjnJgew5
— Jesse Kelly® (@JesseKellyDC) January 30, 2018
Hillary cost herself the election. Snap out of it. https://t.co/0hpNaRdLDC
— Mary Elizabeth (@mchastain81) January 30, 2018
He won’t “snap out of it.” Nor will he admit how lucky Hillary was not to be prosecuted:
Ummm, an apolitical FBI would have likely brought charges against her. Lynch told Comey not to even call it an “investigation,” and Obama told the FBI (via 60 Minutes interview) that Clinton’s use of private email had not “posed a national security problem.” Messages delivered! https://t.co/RtOZ0aVOjS
— Justin Sayfie (@JustinSayfie) January 30, 2018
It will always be weird to me that Comey said that while Hillary violated the letter of the law she didn’t violate the spirit of it. https://t.co/VRLD7yxCW1
— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) January 30, 2018
June: We love Comey!!!
October: Comey is Satan!!!
Hillary: Wisconsin? Meh.https://t.co/bTkLdupIYV— ☠Problematic AF™☠, Shutdown Meltdown (@EF517_V2) January 30, 2018
It's weird to me that a year ago Hillary supporters called Comey and the FBI out for bias and now pretend to worry about preserving their integrity. https://t.co/RydCvERzp9
— Pylnyy Mashina (@dustopian) January 30, 2018
Yeah. Weird how that works.
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