It's Draft Time: Impeachment Edition

[Dill]

(05-18-2017, 10:24 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I have a hard time believing someone writing a note to himself saying that Trump said what he said can be legitimate evidence of obstruction, and if Comey thought it was obstruction, why didn't he report it to the Justice Dept at the time?

Comey wrote a lot of notes about Trump. Their validity will in part be determined by how well they are corroborated by Trump's words and actions. Remember Trump's own public tweets and interviews have the evidence of obstruction prosecutors usually find hidden in secret drawers or on hard drives.

Comey already has a defense for not immediately reporting Trump's obstruction to Trump loyalist Sessions, namely, he was trying to "educate" the president, trying to show him what the "traffic lanes" are for the Executive, since Trump is famously ignorant of these.

In other words, he was trying to serve a president who probably did not know what obstruction was, maybe still does not. At that point, the only evidence of obstruction was one remembered conversation which Trump could easily deny.

All that changed when Trump fired him, then tweeted a public warning to Comey about tapes. It was clear that Trump could not be educated, and when Trump gave an interview controverting the trumped up (pun intended) reasons for the firing, there was no longer any reason for holding back.