After it was announced that FBI director James Comey re-opened the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state, White House press secretary Josh Earnest praised the director’s character and assured the media that there was nothing political about his decision. But it seems as though President Obama has since changed his tune.
“Director Comey is a man of integrity and principle and well regarded by officials in both parties and served as a senior position in the Bush administration and got bipartisan support when his nomination to be director of the FBI was considered by the United States Senate,” Earnest said earlier this week. “They speak to his good character and the president's assessment of his integrity and his character has not changed.”
Doubling down on President Obama’s feeling on the matter, Earnest added, “The president doesn't believe that Director Comey is trying to influence the outcome of the election and the president doesn't believe he's secretly supporting a candidate or political party.”
But now, Obama has flip-flopped, telling NowThisNews that perhaps Comey’s integrity isn’t as rock-solid as he once believed:
“I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations we don’t operate on innuendo and we don’t operate on incomplete information and we don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made. When this was investigated thoroughly last time the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was she had made some mistakes but that there wasn't anything there that was prosecutable.”
Or perhaps it’s just that the polls show a shrinking gap between Clinton and Donald Trump to within the margin of errors and that’s why Obama suddenly had a change of heart.
But it's mostly the hypocrisy of it all, as the DailyWire noted: “Obama’s entire administration has been built on innuendo. His Department of Justice has destroyed police departments around the country with unsubstantiated innuendo about systemic racism. His IRS used innuendo to destroy conservative 501(c)3s. His entire 2012 campaign was rooted in innuendo about Mitt Romney’s supposed secret evils.”
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