• 'I hope this is fake news' - FBI messages show staff reaction to Comey's firing
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[url=https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/lawfare-blog/]MBFC[/url] [url]https://lawfareblog.com/i-hope-instance-fake-news-fbi-messages-show-bureaus-real-reaction-trump-firing-james-comey[/url] [quote]When President Trump fired James Comey as FBI director last May, the special agent in charge of the Detroit field office, David Gelios, wrote an email to his staff: [quote]I just saw CNN reporting that Director Comey has been fired by President Trump. I have no notification from HQ of any such thing. If I receive any information from HQ, I will advise. I’d ask all to stand by for clarification of this reporting. I am only sending this because I want everyone to know I have received no HQ confirmation of the reporting. I hope this is an instance of fake news.[/quote] In the Knoxville field office, Special Agent in Charge Renae McDermott wrote to the staff she leads: “Unexpected news such as this is hard to understand but I know you all know our Director stood for what is right and what is true!!! . . . He truly made us better when we needed it the most.” The following day, in an email with the subject line “Follow up with your squads,” she followed up: “I need for all of you to make sure our/your folks are doing OK. Check with them today, tomorrow ….you get the idea.” McDermott sent that latter email as the White House was launching its public broadside against Comey’s performance. In a May 10 press conference, the same day McDermott was asking her staff to make sure one another were “doing OK,” then-Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that the president had “lost confidence in Director Comey” and that “the rank and file of the FBI had lost confidence in their director.” She stated that the president had “had countless conversations with members from within the FBI” in the course of making his decision to fire Comey. The following day, Sanders stated that she personally had “heard from countless members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president’s decision” and that the president believed “Director Comey was not up to the task...that he wasn’t the right person in the job. [Trump] wanted somebody that could bring credibility back to the FBI.”[/quote] I actually forgot that they tried to claim the FBI rank-and-file had lost confidence in the leadership. Nowadays they just seem to go all in accusing the entire Bureau of conspiracy
I bet that all of those "wooo go Trump" voices inside the FBI, if they existed at all, are from the NY field office, aka Trumpland for its obvious pro-Trump bias. Which makes the gaslighting that the FBI was somehow pro-Hillary even more galling. [media]https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/960194008319488002[/media]
How can anyone be okay with the repeated and blatant lies by the Trump administration? They're supposed to be there to serve the people, not lie to them. It's something a dictatorship would do.
[QUOTE=Str4fe;53110475]How can anyone be okay with the repeated and blatant lies by the Trump administration? They're supposed to be there to serve the people, not lie to them. It's something a dictatorship would do.[/QUOTE] that sounds like something a dirty uneducated liberal would say! crawl back to your hole since you clearly don't understand all the wonderful amazing things he's done for this country! who cares if he lied about colluding with russia! you gotta do everything you can to win the presidency, and he did what he had to! The race was rigged in Killary's favor and he still won! MAGA! [sp] short answer: cult of personality makes anything excusable [/sp]
[QUOTE=Str4fe;53110475]How can anyone be okay with the repeated and blatant lies by the Trump administration? They're supposed to be there to serve the people, not lie to them. It's something a dictatorship would do.[/QUOTE] It makes libtards mad. I doubt there's more to it than that.
[QUOTE=Str4fe;53110475]How can anyone be okay with the repeated and blatant lies by the Trump administration? They're supposed to be there to serve the people, not lie to them. It's something a dictatorship would do.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;53110604]It makes libtards mad. I doubt there's more to it than that.[/QUOTE] From what I’m seeing around here, people legitimately thought from the beginning the whole thing is a conspiracy between the media and rival politicians to smear Trump with misinformation campaigns. Paradoxically, the more things escalate and the bigger the claims are, the less likely those people are going to believe any of it. Stupid little stories about shit Trump says over Twitter is something they see as valid, but huge bombshell stories about the investigation with Russia is completely out.
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