Sounds like Bill.
If they āfound no evidenceā why take it further? It seems the IG was more concerned with the conventional wisdom surrounding these things than getting to the bottom of them. If he "found no evidence: heās done with the issue. Optics, political correctness or āwhat it looks likeā are there to balance the real crap on Trumpās side. Thatās not the IGās job.
Lynch should have had a senior staffer by her side listening in on zthe conversation.
I heard they talked about Russian adoptions.
āDOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz found no evidence that the Clinton email probe was discussed.ā
No empirical evidence?
āLocke her up! Locke her up!ā
(Apologies to philosophy minors everywhere)
I know someone who ran into him at an event. Heāll just lock you into the conversation, not in a creepy way but in a nice like his campaigns āItās not about me but your concernsā.
Hume-iliating day for Republicans.
Bill Clintonās lack of sense of propriety helped cost Hillary Clinton the presidency. Because if Lynch hadnāt had to recuse herself, Comey wouldnāt have made his ill-advised statement.
She did an interview on the Larry Wilmore podcast and said pretty much the same thing and that she tried and failed to squirm out of the conversation. Being somebody who often gets her ear talked off by long-winded friends whom wonāt let me go when I need to, I know exactly how she probably felt. :-/
I feel Lynchās pain. Too many friends/family who talk too much and never shut up. And I desperately want to leave or tell them to stop.
My understanding is that he truly likes to talk to people and listen to them. Which is usually a great thing. But sometimesā¦
(It makes me think a little of the way my 13-year-old loves our cats. Which is really sweet and heartwarming, but when youāre trying to get out the door and not be late for school.)
Did she expect to run into him, though?
She should have recused herself, but she should have turned it over to the deputy AG, no?
Like Sessions turning it over to Rosenstein.
I just saw Matt Miller on MSNBC, and he said either Lynch or the Deputy AG should have stopped Comeyās first press conference, regardless of recusal. It was against Justice Dept. policy, and she could have done that.
Bubba has to be Bubba.
It is to his credit most times.
In this case, it is a double-edged sword.
OK, so the gist here is that there was no impropriety here, only unfortunate optics. Now can we move on?
Clinton, in his interview with the inspector general investigators, said he was surprised by the scrutiny the meeting attracted.
Right, and Iām just as āsurprisedā that he was āsurprised.ā
OT, but after a hard day of being the vessel of my impotent political rage, I found this refreshingly hilarious, not because Kim is such a nutjob (altho thatās funny too in its own right), but because Faux News reports it with such oblivious lack of self-awareness of Trumpās and its own analogously ridiculous and insane propagandist take on the situationā¦
ā¦and also because if Kim was indeed planning to simply leverage a meeting with Trump into legitimacy at home and abroad and then yank the rug out from under himā¦or from off his idiot head, as the case may beā¦this is precisely how heād proceed.
Lynch should have told Bill that it was a bad idea and cut it short.
He wasnāt doing anything wrong. It ālookedā bad.
Yet, he should have realized how it would look. But Iām sick and fucking tired of dems being held to higher standards when theyāre not doing anything WRONG, and republicans are getting away with murder because of their policies.
Enough.