40 minutes ago, ReddFoxx said:

The big problem here isn't Hillary, it's the FBI Director who clearly has played politics here close to the election. If these emails he's referring to are actually duplicates, then it's clear that he was trying to play politics. That is who is shady here and he needs to resign immediately because he has abused his authority big time. These emails are not even from Clinton, which makes this whole "discovery" even more suspect. If he doesn't resign, he's going to have to at least hold a press conference and clarify this whole situation, because it doesn't set right.

 

 

Yup, and the DOJ is making it clear that the FBI's (aka Comey) release of the memo would be inconsistent with the policies of the DOJ. 

 

Meanwhile Trump has a court date for a rape case brought by a plaintiff who was 13 years old at the time.  Somehow Hillary's e-mails are important but apparently this is not.

 

Looks like many in the criminal justice community are taken aback by Comey's series of actions as well.

 

Comey's disclosure shocks former prosecutors

 

 

 

Interesting tweet but we pretty much all knew about this.

 

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/792154084698689537

 

Why doesn't the embed feature work reliably anymore??

 

Edited October 29, 20169 yr by DramatistDreamer

well on Joy Reid's show this morning it was reported that FBI Agents are past furious at Comey for how he has handled this entire situation....because it now makes the FBI look political and not above board. 

I freaking love Bette Midler lol

 

 

So Trump has been/is involved in 3500 lawsuits!!

 

Exclusive: Trump's 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee

 

 

NY Mag goes inside the final days of Team Trump.

 

Even given the October surprise of the FBI’s reviewing a new batch of emails that may be related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server, Trump still faces difficult odds. But he is ending the race much as he got into it: not worrying too much about the future and not listening to any of the advisers around him. In recent weeks, I spoke with more than two dozen current and former Trump advisers, friends, and senior Republicans officials, many of whom would speak only off the record given that the campaign is not yet over. What they described was an unmanageable candidate who still does not fully understand the power of the movement he has tapped into, who can’t see that it is larger than himself.

 

“I got really mad at him the other day,” Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told me. “He said, ‘I think we’ll win, and if not, that’s okay too. And I said, ‘It’s not okay! You can’t say that! Your dry-cleaning bill is like the annual salaries of the people who came to your rallies, and they believe in you!’"

 

[...]

 

“You do know you just attacked a Gold Star family?” one adviser warned Trump.

 

Trump didn’t know what a Gold Star family was: “What’s that?” he asked.

 

[...]

 

According to sources, Ivanka is especially worried that the campaign has caused lasting damage to the family business. “She thinks this is not good for the brand. She would like to distance herself from it. She’s seen some of the pressures the hotels have come under,” one adviser said. In June, Trump’s Miami-Dade golf course lost its PGA tournament to Mexico City. By October, rates had been slashed at the company’s flagship Washington, D.C., hotel, presumably because it was underbooked. And this fall, the family abandoned the Trump name when it launched a new chain of hotels.

 

Still, even Ivanka has been battle-­hardened, to a certain degree, by this election. Before the first debate, she advised her father not to mention Bill Clinton’s accusers. “She wanted to soften him. ‘The women are not the issue, Bill Clinton is not running,’ ” an adviser said she told him. And Trump, at the time, listened. “Trump knows she’s 100 percent loyal to him, so there’s no fear of another agenda.”

 

But Conway told me that on the day the Access Hollywood tape leaked, Ivanka took her father’s side completely. “She was defiant,” Conway recalled. “She told him, ‘It’s 11 years old, you have to fight back. You have to say you’re sorry. But you have to fight back.’ ” Still, she and Kushner were not happy about Bannon’s plan to bring Bill Clinton’s accusers to the second presidential debate to “rattle Bill and Hillary before she took the stage.”

 

Another way Ivanka has tried to exert influence on the campaign is by positioning Kushner to all but run it. “You have to remember something: Jared is the final decision-maker,” a senior adviser said — except, he noted, when Trump is. Trump and his son-in-law are by all appearances close. “Jared is a brilliant young man,” Trump told me. Kushner, a lifelong Democrat, declined to comment, but a Republican close to the campaign said of his feelings: “Jared doesn’t look at supporting the campaign as taking a philosophical position. He’s opportunistic.”

 

Much more at the link.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/comey-wrote-bombshell-letter-to-congress-before-fbi-had-reviewed-new-emails-220219586.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

 

When FBI Director James Comey wrote his bombshell letter to Congress on Friday about newly discovered emails that were potentially “pertinent” to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, agents had not able to review any of the material, because the bureau had not yet gotten a search warrant to read them, three government officials who have been briefed on the probe told Yahoo News.

 

Sending out a letter before even reviewing the material or even obtaining a warrant to view the material could be a serious violation of the law on the part of the FBI Director.

Maybe I'm jaded, but even if what Comey did deserves consequences (i.e. losing his position), I doubt it happens. So goes the long tradition of CYA. All bluster but, in the end, no action. That said, I do believe this was completely political and I hope his ass is roasted for it, even if nothing else comes of it.

Trump campaign using targeted Facebook posts to discourage black Americans from voting

Thanks FBI for el presidente trump. 

 

I hope this news doesn't affect the polls or God forbid lead to her losing but at this point I'm starting to lose hope. Seems like Hillary can't catch a damn break. 

Meh Hillary is fine. Honestly no one but Trump give a crap about any stupid email's

8 hours ago, ThePrinceOfSunspear said:

Thanks FBI for el presidente trump. 

 

I hope this news doesn't affect the polls or God forbid lead to her losing but at this point I'm starting to lose hope. Seems like Hillary can't catch a damn break. 

 

 

It's fine. The fact that Comey went against DOJ policy has become the real story. 

Looks like the polls were tightening in various states like Florida and nationally even before Comey. It seems like people always act appalled by Trump but then fall back into line. Various races like WI Senate (Feingold has always been a poor campaigner) are also tightening. It's frightening to think that people are stupid or complacent enough to where Trump might win and Democrats might pick up one or two Senate seats at best. Maybe this Comey mess is a good thing as it will further remind Hillary voters to take nothing for granted. 

57 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Looks like the polls were tightening in various states like Florida and nationally even before Comey. It seems like people always act appalled by Trump but then fall back into line. Various races like WI Senate (Feingold has always been a poor campaigner) are also tightening. It's frightening to think that people are stupid or complacent enough to where Trump might win and Democrats might pick up one or two Senate seats at best. Maybe this Comey mess is a good thing as it will further remind Hillary voters to take nothing for granted. 

That seems possible.  I live in a mostly red state, although the Omaha area went to Obama in 2008, so I'm not seeing a ton of ads. The few I have seen are really good, so I can only hope that she is flooding the markets that matter with those.

Did they ever change the law to stop that (a certain part voting a different way)? I know they said they would after Obama won.