Of the litany of lies Democrats and their sycophantic media told us (Russian collusion, Hunter Biden’s laptop, the border is “secure,” Trump was not targeted for prosecutions, Joe Biden is healthy, etc.), the most damaging is what they have done to the legacy of the FBI.
It started with the sanctimonious James Comey and his willingness to lie to advance himself over the reputation of the FBI. Comey is a melodramatic megalomaniac. There has not been a drama queen like him running the FBI since J. Edgar Hoover hung up his high heels.
Comey recently posted on Instagram “86 47” laid out in seashells near his beach home. But in a softball interview about it on MS-DNC, he played the victim.
He is just another lib, like Obama and Biden, who lectures us on global warming and rising sea levels but who owns beachfront homes. Bernie Sanders has several homes. He says he owns them just so the billionaires cannot get them.
One thing is consistent with libs: They are always the heroes in their own stories.
Smug and indignant as ever, Comey has so little respect for the average American’s common sense that he said he “did not know what ’86’ meant.” The next seashell message he arranges should say, “Lawyer up, you disingenuous dolt.”
As FBI director, Comey seemed to want to insert himself in every situation, rather than taking the traditional, nonpartisan, low-profile, investigative role of the FBI.
He famously said he did not pursue Hillary Clinton’s email charges because there was “no intent.” Apparently, knowingly setting up a private server, smashing your cellphone and bleaching 30,000 emails was not intent. He was confused when she told her staff to “86 any evidence.”
The FBI leaders were hypocrites. Remember Comey’s FBI right-hand man, Peter Strzok, calling Trump voters “smelly Walmart shoppers”? Well, he was having an interoffice affair with another FBI agent, Lisa Page, or, as they might have called it, “Feds with benefits.”
When feds lie under oath, it’s called “being less than forthcoming” or “lacking candor.” When we do it, they bust down our doors, perp-walk us, and ruin our lives.
When FBI agents break laws that they arrest others for, they might get the most severe punishment a government employee gets: a lateral transfer with full benefits.
Because of all of this, the FBI and DOJ have lost immense credibility and exposed law enforcement for what it is. Most Americans, like me (my dad was a cop), were conditioned to respect them. Ninety-nine percent of FBI agents are great.
And as years of partisan political lawfare and wokeness were being played out by our chief law enforcement officers, crime in the U.S. skyrocketed. Crime was so brazenly bad in Atlanta that I left. It got so awful that when I went to bed at night, I would sleep in a ski mask and hoodie. That way, when gang bangers broke into my house, I could jump up and they might spare me, thinking I was a part of the crew.
When caught, Comey, Wray and Eric Holder would always say, “They did everything by the book.” The “book” was either “Rules for Radicals” or anything by Joseph Goebbels or Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s secret police chief. Back then, any time any Obama or Biden official had to face Congress, they’d blame climate change or systemic racism.
The false FISA warrants Comey signed and propagated in his Russian hoax were thinly supported because he said Trump thought like Putin. Therefore, I must be a Yankee spy because I often drink like Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Contact Ron Hart, a syndicated op-ed satirist, author and radio/TV commentator, at @RonaldHart on X.