Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Today's testimony is equally devastating to Dems Date:   6/8/2017 11:57:02 AM (updated 6/8/2017 12:11:13 PM)

So now we know who attempted to obstruct justice and it wasn't Trump.  It was Loretta Lynch on behalf of Hillary.  I think we better know what Slick Willie and Loretta talked about in their secret meeting in Arizona.....and it wasn't grandkids and the weather.  And we now know that he was the source of the leak of his memo.  No wonder Trump fired his sorry behind and felt the need to ask him for his honest loyalty.  And I can now assume Dems will once again hate Comey.  I have to give this guy credit, he has managed to alienate pretty much everyone of every political persuasion.  Not that I actually believe this will change the mantra of the govt media or Dems....

What is fascinating with his testimony is this exchange with Senator Jim Risch.  What Comey believed is not what was said.  Sorry Dems, but how Comey felt doesn't even closely come close to establishing anything. 

Risch: "Boy you nailed this down on page 5 paragraph 3, you put this in quotes, words matter, you wrote down the words so we could all have the words in front of us now.  There are 28 words there that are in quotes and it says, 'I hope', this is the President speaking, 'I hope you can see your way claer to letting this go, to letting Flynn go...I hope you can let this go.'"

"Now those are his exact words, is that correct"

Comey:  "Correct."

Risch:  "And you wrote them here and you put them in quotes?"

Comey:  "Correct."

Risch:  "Thank you for that.  He did not direct you to let it go."

Comey:  "Not in his words, no."

Risch:  "He did not order you to let it go."

Comey:  "Again, those words are not an order."

Risch:  "He said 'I hope'.  Now, like me you probably did 100's of cases, maybe 1,000s of cases charging people with criminal offenses.  And, of course, you have knowlege of the 1,000s of cases out there where people have been charged.  Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice, for that matter of any other criminal offense,  where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome?"

Comey:  "I don't know well enough to answer.  And the reason I keep saying 'his words' is I took it as a direction..."

Risch:  "You may have taken it as a direction but that is not what he said.  He said, 'I hope.'  You don't know of anyone who has ever been charged for hoping something, is that a fair statement?"

Comey:  "I don't as I sit here."