zerohedge | The Trump dossier was reckless and irresponsible in the extreme, but
only consequential after Election Day. It didn’t prevent Mr. Trump from
becoming president.
In the new spirit of non-non-disclosure, it’s time for
Mr. Comey to tell us about the Russian intelligence scam that may really
have changed the election outcome.
In closed hearings, he reportedly acknowledged
that his intervention in the Hillary Clinton email case was prompted by
what is now understood to have been planted, fake Russian intelligence.
The fake Russian intelligence purported to discuss a nonexistent email
between then-DNC chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz and George
Soros-employed activist Leonard Benardo.
This led directly to Mr. Comey’s second intervention, reopening the
case 11 days before Election Day, a shocking development that appears now to have moved enough votes into Mr. Trump’s column to account for his win.
At the time, the press was all too happy to blame
Bill Clinton for his wife’s loss when Mr. Comey, for nonclassified
consumption, cited Mr. Clinton’s tarmac meeting with Attorney General
Loretta Lynch as the reason for his intervention.
The press is silent now.
The new story satisfies nobody’s agenda, and only makes the FBI look foolish. Mr.
Trump is not eager to hear his victory portrayed as an FBI-precipitated
accident. Democrats cling to their increasingly washed-out theory of
Trump-Russia collusion.
And yet, if Mr. Comey’s antic intervention in response to
Russian disinformation inadvertently led to Mr. Trump becoming
president, this was the most consequential outcome by far.
