Do you believe that Donald Trump conspired with House Republicans to tear down Comey...?

[kentuck]

...with the release of the Comey memos?

From the way Trump has been tweeting for the last couple of days, we might deduce that it was his idea?

However, there seems to be a small clog in their conspiracy plan. In leaking the memos, the people were able to see with their own eyes and draw a comparison between the two men, Trump and Comey.

Trump does not come out looking good. Comey comes out looking like the more honest and more truthful person. Trump looks dishonest and conniving. Trump is clearly the loser when the two men are compared in the memos.

It was a political mistake by Trump and his Republican conspirators. Although they are working doubly-hard to try and fix their "mistake", the damage has been done. Their plan to destroy the most credible witness for the prosecution has failed.

[dem4decades]

1. Yes of course they did.

It didn't help Trump that John Barrows appeared in the same news cycle either.

[Demsrule86]

2. Yes and of course they leaked it which is why those fuckers should get no info...

It backfired though as there was worse stuff that Comey left out of the book, and it showed Comey was telling the truth.

[gordianot]

3. The primary political dialogue Republicans use are personal attacks.

When Republicans are not lieing they are attacking.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Self-Evidently, Yes

The most obvious evidence is that it backfired, and that level of incompetence has House R's written all over it.

[doc03]

5. Does a bear poop in the woods? nt

[kentuck]

6. Is it true that the Comey memos were "unclassified" and remain so today?

Contrary to what Trump said and what FOX reported?
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/why-were-republicans-so-desperate-to-release-the-embarrassing-comey-memos-heres-one-explanation.html

This all ultimately seems to explain why House Republicans were so eager to get these memos into the public. It seems as though they thought the memos would prove Comey had illegally leaked classified information and lied about it. It seems as though they were basing this entirely on a bit of contradictory—and likely inaccurate—Fox News reporting. And it seems that this contradictory, likely inaccurate reporting was done by Fox News to help validate this Donald Trump tweet, which was sent two days after Comey’s Senate testimony:

Finally, it seems that the memos released prove the exact opposite: The apparently leaked documents were never and still aren’t classified.

Ultimately, this is likely why on Thursday night we learned that Putin was allegedly discussing Russian hookers with Trump, that the president appears to have been obsessed with the pee tape to a previously undisclosed degree, and apparently had his chief of staff ask the FBI director if Mike Flynn was being bugged.

In the likely event that there are more rakes out there in this investigation, House Republicans should think very carefully about where they step next.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. No. Look at them yourself and you'll see the Classified headings and the redactions!

Your post title shows you have some confusion between "the memos" and "the documents" that were supposedly leaked.

The memos are classified, or were before the redactions and de-classification.

The other documents I have not seen.

[kentuck]

10. Did Comey classify and "redact" them by himself?

As FBI Director, doesn't he have the authority to classify them?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. No! Again, look at the memos. Somebody else's signature is on them de-classifying them.

Comey signed his memos, several of which were classified.

Somebody else redacted them, declassified them, and signed the declassification.

[kentuck]

14. Did Comey give them that option in his memos?

To either give them a higher classification or to not classify them at all? I thought I read that??

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Look at the scanned memos. Not typed in copies. They are online.

But this time, for this question, it is answered by reading even the typed in copies.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Read the whole article you linked. The answer is in there. Its last update 12 hours before your post

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. To clarify my post #7: some memos

Some memos were classified. Later those were redacted and declassified.

If you read the article you linked, you'll see that what Comey leaked was four pages, all unclassified (never classified). Fox stupidly took that to mean four memos.

[kentuck]

21. With FOX, anything is possible.

What does it mean, "de-classified"?

Who would have "de-classified" them?

Was it legal?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Yup. Occasionally they even tell the truth, when it suits them. . . . nt

[Roy Rolling]

8. Classified?

Does the GOP have any other play in their playbook? How'd the legal harassment strategy against Hillary work?

[True Blue American]

9. Only Trump matters

Not one bit of concern over what happened to our election.

Simply put,a self centered,Dirty old man!

[Atticus]

11. Does Dracula have an overbite? nt

[kentuck]

13. No doubt, they are going after Comey with everything they've got.

They even recruited that little hypocrite, Gowdy, to help them promote their conspiracy to tear down, not only James Comey, but our entire Justice Department. It is getting closer to treason every single day...

[Exotica]

17. "Trump does not come out looking good."

Trump wouldn't come out favourably in a 3-way comparison between himself, a shit-filled nappie baking in the summer sun at the local dump, and a road-killed syphilitic warthog.

[kentuck]

24. OMG!

My eyes! My eyes!

[Gore1FL]

20. No belief necessary. They are doing it in the open

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/384020-rnc-sending-lyin-lion-mascot-to-follow-comey-around-on-book-tour

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is sending a mascot — Lyin' Lion Comey — to trail former FBI Director James Comey on his cross-country book tour.

The lion mascot's mission was first reported Thursday by CNN, before the GOP itself appeared to confirm the news in a tweet.

The RNC later confirmed the effort in an email to The Hill.

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[Takket]

27. This is the intellectual level upon which...

The GOP feels it can best appeal to their voters.

[ewagner]

23. The plan to "leak" the memos was flawed from the beginning

In my career I have often found that my opponents think only on the first layer of complexity...in one case having a lawyer draft a resolution that they thought would put my side at a disadvantage, but the text cited a law that would force them to jump thought a ton of hoops before they could succeed. They never read it. They never looked up the referenced law. I tore them a new one in the floor fight.

The house repubs seem like my opponents. They go after legal/legislative "twinkies"..that is, they jump at actions that are appealing to the eye, sweet on the surface but HAVE NO (ZERO) nutritional value.

Our opponents are often neither as smart nor as clever as we imagine them to be.

[kentuck]

25. When first we practice to deceive...

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

[ewagner]

29. True...

[Ligyron]

30. Good job ewagner.

But alot of this is a jury trial and almost half the jury pool in this country are idiots

[ewagner]

31. ...a good lawyer...

...can make idiots think they're geniuses.

[world wide wally]

26. I worry about a country that will not only tolerate a known pathological liar as its leader,

but having an entire political party that is also willing to lie for him. Especially when they have complete control because we wanted them to have it.

[malaise]

28. True but they will continue their fake tales of leaks

and will have copious hearings in the lead up to the mid-terms. All will be paid for by tax-payers as these fuckers loot the treasury one last time before they are voted out hopefully for decades.