Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi joined Jesse Watters on Friday night to discuss the James Comey indictments.
Taibbi blasted Comey for leaking false documents to the leftist press accusing President Trump of being a Russian spy. This was something Comey KNEW was factually incorrect and yet he took these actions to take down a sitting US President.
The criminal charges against Comey are much more serious than what the media is reporting!
In a previous time in American history Comey would be hung for treason.
Matt Taibbi: “People have to remember what is the substance of these lies? What were they for? These news stories that were put out there that were leaked to the press, the thrust of them was that Donald Trump was under the throes of a foreign government. He was a Russian agent.
Think of the national security implications of implying that your own president is a spy for a foreign country.
Would that be tolerated in any normal country?
You cannot let that go on. You can’t have an FBI director doing these kinds of things and engaging these sorts of manipulations and lying to Congress about it and getting away with it.”
Jesse Watters: Yeah, he basically framed him as a traitor. What’s the punishment for treason? We all know what that is. I mean, this is the worst thing you can possibly do…
Matt Taibbi: One thing I think we’ve learned during the Russiagate period is that James Comey has a peculiar vanity that I think is often his undoing.
He often thinks that he’s being clever when he’s not. He often thinks that he’s showing tremendous rectitude when he’s actually looking like a phony on television.
The more exposure that he gets for himself, I think actually the more it will redound to Trump’s benefit.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s good if he’s on television more during this period.
