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    Default COMEY'S scathing editorial this PM about BARR, "Trump has eaten your soul"

    James Comey obliterates Bill Barr’s reputation in brutal op-ed: ‘Trump has eaten your soul’



    BRAD REED
    01 MAY 2019 AT 13:25 ET






    FBI Director James Comey testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on July 7, 2016 (AFP Photo/Yuri Gripas)


    Former FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday published a brutal op-ed in the New York Times dissecting how people such as current Attorney General Bill Barr and former deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have found themselves corrupted by President Donald Trump.

    In his op-ed, Comey explains that being in constant contact with an “amoral leader” such as Trump inevitably tests officials’ ethics — even when those officials see themselves as guardrails against Trump’s worst behavior.

    In the cases of both Rosenstein and Barr, he argues, the two men have shown that they lack the needed “inner strength” to defy the president, which has led to the destruction of their reputations as law enforcement officials.

    “Accomplished people lacking inner strength can’t resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from,” he writes. “It takes character like [former Defense Secretary James] Mattis’s to avoid the damage, because Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites.”

    Comey then says that Trump’s power of corruption starts with his incessant, nonstop lying that mentally bludgeons officials into at least keeping silent and not correcting his falsehoods — even when they are directly contradicted by the public record.

    From there, officials feel pressured into publicly praising the president, even though they may privately see him as dishonest and lacking in ethics.

    “From the private circle of assent, it moves to public displays of personal fealty at places like cabinet meetings,” he writes. “While the entire world is watching, you do what everyone else around the table does — you talk about how amazing the leader is and what an honor it is to be associated with him.”

    Comey is sympathetic toward leaders who stay aboard based on the rationale that their country needs them to act as a check on the president, but he says doing this will require you to lie to yourself and others about the man you’re really serving.

    “Of course, to stay, you must be seen as on his team, so you make further compromises,” he write. “You use his language, praise his leadership, tout his commitment to values. And then you are lost. He has eaten your soul.”

    Read the whole op-ed here.





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    fuckin brutal

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    James Comey obliterates Bill Barr’s reputation in brutal op-ed: ‘Trump has eaten your soul’
    James Comey is a desperate lying, conniving hack that knows he may find himself behind bars in the future. No one gives a shit what this lying asshole has to say except for other lying assholes, like you.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
    Author: Booker T. Washington



    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    fuckin brutal
    I didn't know Comey could be so poetically descriptive. "Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites.”
    Damn!
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    You know you have reached the bottom when you are doing stories for RAW STORY. Sad pathetic Comey; desperately flailing about knowing that his time of freedom is rapidly coming to an end.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Comey ? The criminal ?
    "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
    The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    Comey ? The criminal ?
    the NYT hired him to write editorials?.......lol.......

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    I love it when the (R)s eat each other.

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    Lyin' leakin' Comey's going down soon. Who cares.
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    ROFL @ COMEY

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    I didn't know Comey could be so poetically descriptive. "Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites.”
    Damn!
    OpEd for Raw Sewerage, lol Looks more like Mr. Trump chewed up his soul and spit it out.
    What's next, Comey the warm up act ahead of the Clintons at empty venues?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    James Comey obliterates Bill Barr’s reputation in brutal op-ed: ‘Trump has eaten your soul’



    BRAD REED
    01 MAY 2019 AT 13:25 ET






    FBI Director James Comey testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on July 7, 2016 (AFP Photo/Yuri Gripas)


    Former FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday published a brutal op-ed in the New York Times dissecting how people such as current Attorney General Bill Barr and former deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have found themselves corrupted by President Donald Trump.

    In his op-ed, Comey explains that being in constant contact with an “amoral leader” such as Trump inevitably tests officials’ ethics — even when those officials see themselves as guardrails against Trump’s worst behavior.

    In the cases of both Rosenstein and Barr, he argues, the two men have shown that they lack the needed “inner strength” to defy the president, which has led to the destruction of their reputations as law enforcement officials.

    “Accomplished people lacking inner strength can’t resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump and that adds up to something they will never recover from,” he writes. “It takes character like [former Defense Secretary James] Mattis’s to avoid the damage, because Mr. Trump eats your soul in small bites.”

    Comey then says that Trump’s power of corruption starts with his incessant, nonstop lying that mentally bludgeons officials into at least keeping silent and not correcting his falsehoods — even when they are directly contradicted by the public record.

    From there, officials feel pressured into publicly praising the president, even though they may privately see him as dishonest and lacking in ethics.

    “From the private circle of assent, it moves to public displays of personal fealty at places like cabinet meetings,” he writes. “While the entire world is watching, you do what everyone else around the table does — you talk about how amazing the leader is and what an honor it is to be associated with him.”

    Comey is sympathetic toward leaders who stay aboard based on the rationale that their country needs them to act as a check on the president, but he says doing this will require you to lie to yourself and others about the man you’re really serving.

    “Of course, to stay, you must be seen as on his team, so you make further compromises,” he write. “You use his language, praise his leadership, tout his commitment to values. And then you are lost. He has eaten your soul.”

    Read the whole op-ed here.





    Comey is a bumbling idiot, but he's spot on here.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    You know you have reached the bottom when you are doing stories for RAW STORY. Sad pathetic Comey; desperately flailing about knowing that his time of freedom is rapidly coming to an end.
    Jessuf'gchrist! Did you read where the letter was PUBLISHED? Could have been in the TV Guide, it doesn't even matter WHICH medium Raw Story 'picked it up' from.

    a brutal op-ed in the New York Times



    PS God, we have SOME STUPID people on this board. How is that people who CLAIM to be so politically aware and informed make such DUMBASS assertions? It's mind BOGGLING!
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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    OpEd for Raw Sewerage, lol Looks more like Mr. Trump chewed up his soul and spit it out.
    What's next, Comey the warm up act ahead of the Clintons at empty venues?
    How dumbass, IT'S NOT RAW STORY's story or OP ED! READ!!!!

    a brutal op-ed in the New York Times
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    Like lambs led to slaughter........
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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