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Sep 27, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Why should anyone believe James Comey? Some quotes from a new book, by WP reporter Devlin Barrett, that covers Comey's conduct in Trump-Russia and Clinton email investigations in October 2016: 1/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
"At key moments involving the Clinton or Russia cases, Comey's version of events is starkly at odds with accounts provided by DOJ officials. 'It's not that there's an outright lie in it, but the meaning gets all mangled,' opined one former senior DOJ official." 2/6
"By mid-2016, Justice Department officials had come to suspect Comey viewed himself as the most moral, ethical actor in any room he was in..." 3/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
"Much later, several of them came to believe [Comey's] sense of moral superiority was driven in part by viewing even straightforward conversations with his superiors in a sinister light." 4/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
Might that apply to any other Comey conversations? Perhaps his one-on-one talks with Trump? The famed Comey memos? Mangled meanings? Viewing conversations with superiors in a sinister light? Imagine that! 5/6 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…
Yet even as Comey's colleagues behind the scenes viewed his word with skepticism, media treated his descriptions of one-on-one talks with Trump as gold standard of credibility. Link: Why should anyone believe James Comey? 6/6 End washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

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THREAD Washington Post does story with headline, 'Trump quotes Putin condemning American democracy, praises autocrat Orban.' Raises question: OK, what did Trump say? 1/12 washingtonpost.com/elections/2023…
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A new study of trans in America. Big majorities have not used hormone treatments, not had surgery. Big majorities prefer *not* to be called 'trans woman' or 'trans man.' (Prefer 'nonbinary' or 'gender non-conforming.') 1/5 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-new-…
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Chinese balloon story getting more troubling tonight. WSJ, others reporting that Biden administration now says earlier, Trump-era Chinese balloon incursions happened, but nobody in US government knew about them at the time. 1/4 wsj.com/articles/biden…
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Big news last August when Adam Schiff, Dems asked Intelligence Community for 'damage assessment' of Trump classified documents case. Show the terrible harm Trump has done to national security! So now, months later, has anyone seen the assessment? 1/5 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/whatev…
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Several headlines tonight along lines of 'U.S. May Execute Its First Openly Transgender Woman.' Missouri prisoner was convicted of killing 'former girlfriend.' Journalists straining to avoid saying that killer, Scott McLaughlin, was a man at time of 2003 murder. 1/4
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@DraperRobert Cheney & Thompson tell J6 members: We've got something big. There's a hearing in three hours. Here's the script. That afternoon, the show went on. 3/4
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