James Comey to Obama After Trump Election: ‘I Dread the Next Four Years’
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Former FBI director James Comey told President Barack Obama after the 2016 presidential election that he dreaded Donald Trump becoming president before taking a job in his administration.
“I told him that, ‘I dread the next four years,’” Comey told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview. “‘But in many ways, I feel great pressure to stay to try and protect the institution I lead.’”
The former FBI director said he was already worried that Trump would “erode” the institution of the FBI, even before he was inaugurated as president.
Comey was emotional during one of his last meetings with Obama, which he recounts in detail in his book.
According to Comey, Obama held him back after a meeting to personally tell him that he had served with “integrity” during the 2016 election.
Comey complained that he felt miserable after the election, comparing himself to Bruce Willis’s character in “The Sixth Sense” who did not realize he was dead.
“I felt like I was totally alone, that everybody hated me,” he said.
Comey said that the president’s understanding meant a great deal to him.
“I said, ‘Thank you, Mr. President. It has been a nightmare. I’m just– I’ve just tried to do the right thing.’ And he said, ‘I know. I know,’ Comey related.
Comey also said that he was “going to miss” Obama.
“I said, ‘I think my wife would kill me if I didn’t take this chance to thank you, and to tell you how much I’m going to miss you,’” he continued.
Days After Donald Strikes Syria, 2018 Election Polls Take A Sharp Turn
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With the midterm elections rapidly approaching, Democrats in America are eagerly gearing up in races across the country, and are calling the upcoming vote a “referendum” on the President. Despite having no strong leadership, no platform, and no policies that work, the Left seems convinced that they will become the new majority in November.
But back in 2010, the Democrats lost 63 seats in the House and 6 in the Senate. Predictably, no one in the media called that election a referendum on Obama. Republicans will not lose anywhere near those totals this November, but anything over 5 House seats will be ecstatically cited by the media as proof that Americans hate Trump.
However, support for the left has been eroding for decades due to their corruption and ineptitude, and a new poll shows that if anyone should be worried in November, it’s those with a D next to their name.
From The Hill:
Support for a Democratic-controlled Congress appears to be slipping months ahead of November’s midterm elections, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Forty-seven percent of voters polled said they want Democrats to take the majority, compared to 40 percent who said they preferred Republicans to maintain control.
Democrats held a 10-point advantage in March.
Losing three points of support within a month is no small feat, and support for the left has nowhere to go but down. In fact, many of the people who responded that they want the Democrats take the majority may not have been being truthful.
Registered Democrats may hate Trump, but many still do not want higher taxes, open borders and expanded welfare entitlements for all. Anyone who admits publicly to being against these things is immediately cast as a racist, selfish bigot, and who has the patience to deal with that headache?
Just like in the 2016 election polls, which predicted Hillary would win the election, there may be GOP supporters afraid to publicly come out of the closet, making the polls inaccurate as a result.
This is bad news for Democrats, who only care about one thing: political power. There are still plenty of gullible Americans out there who believe the left’s nonsense about the environment, “social justice”, white privilege, and the lies about Trump, and will vote based on it.
But will enough of them come out to support such an uninspiring field of candidates who offer nothing new or exciting?We’ll know for certain in 8 months.
Students Who Went To Columbia With Obama Asked For Pics, Give Stunning Response
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Ever since Barack Obama launched his first campaign for the White House, there have been questions surrounding his college career. Over the weekend, students who went to Columbia University at the same time as Obama were asked to produce pictures proving that he did attend there. The responses which flooded in were stunning.
One month before the 2008 presidential election, The Wall Street Journal published an article questioning the legitimacy of then-candidate Barack Obama’s claim that he attended Columbia University. “The Columbia years are a hole in the sprawling Obama hagiography,” the article read. “In his two published memoirs, the 47-year-old Democratic nominee barely mentions his experience there. He refuses to answer questions about Columbia and New York — which, in this media age, serves only to raise more of them.”
“Why not release his Columbia transcript? Why has his senior essay gone missing? What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends,” added the WSJ. “Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him.”
Ten years later, the questions surrounding Obama’s purported time at Columbia still remain. Actor and outspoken conservative James Woods opened the topic up to discussion on Twitter this weekend, asking his 1.42 million followers: “Hey, if any of you went to Columbia University and recall Barack Obama as a student there, would you please respond with a tweet and a pic of him at Columbia? Thanks.”
Not surprisingly, Woods didn’t get any former Columbia students who were able to produce evidence of Obama’s alleged time there. Twitter users had some hilarious responses to his question, though.
The most thought-provoking response to James Woods’ question came from a Twitter user who uses the handle “Codman Robert.” He posted a damning quote from Columbia University professor Henry Graff:
This quote from Professor Graff originated in an article written by Columbia alumnus Wayne Allen Root for The Blaze. Root interviewed Graff after attending his 30th Columbia University reunion. “Something about ‘the Obama at Columbia story’ has always bothered me,” wrote Root. “I celebrated with my esteemed classmates. Everyone except Barack Obama. As usual — he wasn’t there. Not a trace. Not a video greeting. Not a letter. I could not find any classmates who knew him.”
“Meet Professor Henry Graff, perhaps the most legendary and honored professor ever at Columbia University,” Root went on. “He was THE American History and Diplomatic History professor at Columbia for 46 years. And he is more emphatic than yours truly that there are no Obama footprints at Columbia.”
“I did some digging and located Graff’s home phone number,” he added. “I called him yesterday. Now retired, he was delighted to hear from me. He agreed to go on the record about Obama. Unlike Obama, Professor Graff clearly remembered me. He was thrilled to hear from his former student. I was in several of Graff’s classes and he remembered me like it was yesterday. He sounded great — like he hasn’t lost any of his trademark sharpness in 30 years since we last met.”
“I was honored to learn that this legendary historian has been following my political career for many years. But he had no such cheery things to say about the President,” wrote Root. “Graff said, ‘I taught at Columbia for 46 years. I taught every significant American politician that ever studied at Columbia. I know them all. I’m proud of them all. Between American History and Diplomatic History, one way or another, they all had to come through my classes. Not Obama. I never had a student with that name in any of my classes. I never met him, never saw him, never heard of him.’”
“Even more importantly, Professor Graff knew the other history and political science professors. ‘None of the other Columbia professors knew him either’ said Graff,” according to Wayne Allen Root. “Graff concluded our interview by saying, ‘I’m very upset by the whole story. I am angry when I hear Obama called ‘the first President of the United States from Columbia University.’ I don’t consider him a Columbia student. I have no idea what he did on the Columbia campus. No one knows him.’”
Incredibly, the media seemed not to care at all about the discrepancies in Barack Obama’s claims that he went to Columbia University. Can you imagine if there was any suspicion at all that President Donald Trump had lied about where he went to college? We would never hear the end of it. Just look at the way they are foaming at the mouth over the unsubstantiated claims of a porn star. The double-standard is glaring.
Loretta Lynch Just Threw a Bucket of ICE WATER on Comey With This SCATHING Statement
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James Comey has officially dug himself a massive hole with his disastrous new book.
It’s receiving horrific feedback from every side of the aisle, and to make matters even worse, Loretta Lynch released this scathing statement on Comey just hours before his blockbuster ABC interview.
In a 330-plus word statement, Lynch highlighted what she claims are her career accomplishments before turning her attention to Comey’s upcoming interview. Addressing the issue of the criminal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, Lynch wrote:
I have known James Comey almost 30 years. Throughout his time as Director we spoke regularly about some of the most sensitive issues in law enforcement and national security. If he had any concerns regarding the email investigation, classified or not, he had ample opportunities to raise them with me both privately and in meetings. He never did.
Lynch’s statement comes just hours before Comey’s interview with Stephanopoulos is set to air on ABC News. In the interview, Comey addresses his decision in October 2016 to announce that he was reopening the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server, just days before the election.
Lynch’s statement comes just hours before Comey’s interview with Stephanopoulos is set to air on ABC News. In the interview, Comey addresses his decision in October 2016 to announce that he was reopening the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server, just days before the election.
“I was operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump,” Comey says in the interview. “And so I’m sure that it was a factor. That she’s going to be elected President and if I hide this from the American people, she’ll be illegitimate the moment she’s elected, the moment this comes out.”
Lynch’s full statement:
Over almost two decades as a federal prosecutor I have aggressively prosecuted drug dealers, violent gangs, mobsters, and money launderers, upheld the civil rights of all Americans, and fought corruption of all types –– whether by elected officials from both sides of the aisle or within organizations like FIFA. Through it all I have never hesitated to make the hard decisions, guided by the Department of Justice’s core principles or integrity, independence and above all, always doing the right thing.
The Justice Department’s handling of the Clinton email investigation under my leadership was no exception. It was led by a team of non-partisan career prosecutors whose integrity cannot be overstated and whom I trusted to assess the facts and make a recommendation – one that I ultimately accepted because I thought the evidence and law warranted it.
Everyone who works for the Department of Justice has an obligation to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the work of the department. That is why, at the critical early stages of this case, I followed the departments long-standing policy of neither confirming nor denying the fact of an ongoing investigation. This policy both pre-dates my tenure in the Department and will live on long after the current debate is over. It neither misleads nor misinforms, but instead both protects investigations and guarantees equal treatment of those under scrutiny, whether well-known or unknown. Any suggestion that I invoked this bed rock policy for any other reason is simply false.
Throughout the process I did what I always do: rise above politics and uphold the law. At no time did I ever discuss any aspect of the investigation with anyone from the Clinton campaign or the DNC.
I have known James Comey almost 30 years. Throughout his time as Director we spoke regularly about some of the most sensitive issues in law enforcement and national security. If he had any concerns regarding the email investigation, classified or not, he had ample opportunities to raise them with me both privately and in meetings. He never did.