Progressives hoped the Senate Intelligence Committee testimony from former FBI Director James Comey would offer a new bombshell against President Trump. Instead they got confirmation from Comey that Trump didn’t try to meddle with the ongoing Russia investigation. And they also got a reaffirmation from Comey that Trump himself wasn’t under investigation by the FBI. Comey says Trump didn’t ask him to stop the Russian investigation. There goes the leftist narrative. Boom. — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 8, 2017 What Comey did reveal is a president who tried to exert questionable pressure to protect his friend Michael Flynn. Did that pressure arise to the level of obstructing FBI investigations? Nope, according to not only Comey, but also acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers. Trump has said he wants the truth to come to light in the Russia investigation; Comey himself noted in his written testimony, “The President went on to say that if there were some ‘satellite’ associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out, but that he hadn’t done anything wrong and hoped I would find a way to get it out…
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