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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: 3 Next Steps Possible for Comey This Week On election night, voting closes on the east coast first than sweeps to the west coast, of course. I think watching the New York results will be predictive. NY is a big Democrat state so if Trump takes New York, I think the election will be over at that point. If he loses it but significantly narrower than the MSM polls predict, he'll probably still win. Re: Comey, there are 3 possibilities for a next step prior to election day. 1) He could say and do nothing more, which would leave the country in limbo through the full election, saying the case is ongoing. In that case, his announcement would leave him accused of making the announcement only for the purpose of throwing the election to Trump and nothing more, especially if, at any point after the election, he reports finding no new material and announces again the investigation is closed. 2) He could announce that he looked at the emails and found nothing, again exonerating Clinton. This might have the effect of helping Hillary more than if he did nothing at all in announcing the reopening of the investigation, earning her some kind of pity vote, angering her voter base and getting more of them to the polls. Though it would likely get everyone mad at him, D's and Trump supporters alike. 3) He could announce an indictment recommendation against Hillary. This would make the most sense to me. The announcement to reopen the investigation -- which he did on a Friday, is often done when people don't want to cause too much impact on markets and such, may have been done to prepare the country for the indictment announcement, as announcing the indictment without announcing the reopening of the investigation would be the mother of all bombshells. If so, it would/should come this week, maybe again on a Friday, which would be Nov 4th, but later than that prior to election day would be truly bizarre. Though it's bizarre enough as is. I don't think Comey would have announced the reopening of the investigation if he didn't already have his next step decided and planned, and he wouldn't have done anything if the next step was anything other than an announcement to indict. Of course all this assumes Comey is acting loyally to honest law enforcement principles, and that's in doubt based on how the original investigation was handled and his conclusion, contrary to the law, that Hillary should not be indicted for lack of full intent to violate it. But maybe there's evidence in the emails that completely undermines even the "no intent" pass Hillary has been given. Maybe he's found evidence of clear intent, forcing his hand. I think Napolitano has suggested he's under huge pressure by the entire FBI department he oversees to indict. Maybe that's playing a role. Another possibility is Obama announcing a pardon of Hillary this week before Comey says anything more, justified as needed to prevent a national election crisis. This might save Obama some political difficulty of pardoning her after the election and Trump wins, and as things sit now, even he sees a Trump victory as much more likely anyway. About half the country would applaud the move as a way to "move on". Of course it would alienate the other half, or more, but that may be seen as unavoidable anyway. Obama has a personal interest in pardoning Hillary as he may fall under scrutiny under a Trump DOJ as well. And there is, of course, the well entrenched Clinton apparatus working overtime, as we speak, under the scenes to clean this up as much as possible. There may be another anti-Trump time bomb waiting to go off this week in the form of a video or similar. Maybe such a bomb is being urgently put together now. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Pinguinite (#0)
Hope is not a plan. I see Hillary skating from this and the dozens of other scandals she's been involved in, ethical and criminal IMO. I can hope though.
The chance of her ever seeing a single day in jail remains remote, but except for the possibility of this re-opening announcement by Comey being some kind of a PR stunt to favor Hillary by his apologizing this week and again closing the investigation, then it will hurt Clinton in the election. And in the likely case it does end up hurting her, then it's indicative that the Clinton apparatus is not in as much control as might be feared. Obviously Clinton has more than enough money to escape to some country and live out her life is extremely comfortable retirement, safe from extradition. That would be her worst case scenario.
Hillary's candidacy: great movie potential. The Fugitive.
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