Democrats who were looking forward to former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony got more than expected as he appeared to throw former Attorney General Loretta Lynch under the bus.
Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a public hearing Thursday, the fired FBI chief revealed that Lynch directed him to refer to the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton’s email server as a “matter” instead of an investigation.
NEWS: Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Comey not to call Clinton investigation an investigation, rather a “matter”
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 8, 2017
Loretta Lynch is having a surprisingly bad day in the Comey testimony
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 8, 2017
Committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr asked Comey why he made his announcement last July regarding the email investigation.
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“Was your decision influenced by the attorney general’s tarmac meeting with the former President Bill Clinton?” the North Carolina Republican asked.
Comey admitted that the tarmac meeting “capped it for me to protect the credibility of the investigation.”
“There were other things that contributed to that,” he added, explaining what led to his decision to make the independent announcement in July 2016.
“Probably the only other consideration that I guess I can talk about in an open setting is, at one point, the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me,” Comey continued.
Holy shit! James Comey just admitted to colluding with Loretta Lynch to falsify his statements to benefit Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
— Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) June 8, 2017
You want a direct order to obstruct an investigation?
Comey just said AG Lynch gave him a direct order to publicly lie about Hillary email
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) June 8, 2017
Comey says Lynch was playing politics and it made him “queasy”.
— Bill O’Reilly (@billoreilly) June 8, 2017
“But that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we’re too close this case credibly,” he concluded.
Will fmr AG Lynch be charged w/ obstruction of justice after Comey revelations of demands she made? Will Dems demand it?
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 8, 2017
.@MarkWarner Where’s the memo Comey wrote after Lynch directed him on his handling of Hillary’s email server investig… er “matter”?
— Tucker Carlson (@TucketCarlson) June 8, 2017
Later in the hearing, Comey revealed that the Clinton campaign used “euphemisms [like] security review” to describe FBI investigations which were “inaccurate” and gave him “a queasy feeling.”
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While many were hanging on every word of the highly anticipated testimony of Comey’s private conversations with President Trump and the investigation into alleged collusion between his campaign and Russia, the runaway story of Lynch’s actions raised collective eyebrows on Twitter.
So Attorney General Loretta Lynch instructed Comey to call the investigation into Hillary a “matter”
That’s pure political manipulation
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) June 8, 2017
THANKS, BILL. Comey confirms ex-Pres. Clinton’s tarmac meeting with Loretta Lynch last yr sparked his decision to speak out about his probe.
— Ed O’Keefe (@edatpost) June 8, 2017
#comeyhearings Did Comey just accuse Lynch of Obstruction of Justice?
— Amelia (@LoversWin) June 8, 2017
@ #ComeyHearings Comey just provided evidence of Clinton & AG Lynch obstructing justice.
MSM: *crickets* pic.twitter.com/2Im43pygyc
— ? RadCovfefe ?? (@oktobwhite) June 8, 2017
Biggest revelation from #Comey hearing: AG Lynch obstructed justice in FBI investigation into Hillary & Comey was complicit in clearing her. https://t.co/epj2jQjAS7
— Nick Short (@PoliticalShort) June 8, 2017
Wow! Attorney General Lynch told Comey to call FBI’s probe into Hillary a “matter” not an “investigation” – and he folded without objection.
— Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) June 8, 2017
Comey just tossed Loretta Lynch under the bus-saying she wanted to align FBI language of @HillaryClinton investigation with that of campaign
— John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) June 8, 2017
So Basically
Trump Never OBSTRUCTED.. Comey LEAKED To His FRIEND.. &
Lynch Actually DID OBSTRUCT ‼️#ComeyHearings— WokeAF Leah???? (@LeahR77) June 8, 2017
We learned: Comey leaked stuff to press;he was too weak to stand up to @POTUS and rolled over from pressure from AG Lynch; yes he got fired!
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 8, 2017
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