Name calling is not something I approve of, but when a failed politician continually says inane things which most Americans know are purely efforts to remain in the public image, I will allow myself and others to tell the truth.
Today FBI Director James Comey reported the findings of his agency regarding the use of personal e-mails by former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. I watched the broadcast and was impressed with his thorough reporting of the methods and decisions made by his investigators.
When the report was finished, there was no doubt in my mind that Donald Trump and other “Pretend-Republicans” would denounce his department’s decision advising the Justice Department to refrain from filing charges against Ms. Clinton. Republican fear of her candidacy has been transparent for the last eight years.
There is criticism, and then there is idiocy. Rudy Giuliani is another failed Republican politician. He was an unaccomplished and the immoral Mayor of New York who used the fact that he was in office during the tragedies of 9/11 for his personal advantage.
Comey attacked Clinton for her lackadaisical use of e-mails and extended that condemnation to the State Department for mistakes in past years. He stated that there was no obvious intent to circumvent the law; but Giuliani disagreed. What a surprise.
“The definition that a judge gives a jury in a charge on gross negligence includes the words ‘extremely negligent.’ They are one in the same thing. So, he has found that she violated 18 United States Code Section 793 except he can’t somehow bring himself to the conclusion that she should be indicted for it – which says to me he’s putting her above the law.”
If his extreme view of the law is viable, then we must prosecute George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for being “extremely negligent” for ignoring the warnings of security agencies before the attacks on 9/11. Former CIA and FBI directors have all agreed that the president and vice-president ignored their “imminent warnings,” and took vacations.
Giuliani is an attorney, and if he had actually listened to the extensive reporting of Comey, he would have been satisfied with his decision and the explanation.
The problem here is that he is another supporter of the worst candidate for the presidency in our nation’s history. For Giuliani, it’s party first and the American people be damned. He joins other Republicans who shun morality for the sake of sex. Like Newt Gingrich, Mark Sanford, and others, he flaunted his mistress while in office, while claiming that he was a member of the “party of family values.”
Character is everything for those who seek public office, and Giuliani is void of moral character.
The fact is that Hillary Clinton made a mistake, and she admitted that fact, unlike Trump and other Republicans who remain sanctimonious. Another fact is that she was working hard to perform the job given to her by the President. Ms. Clinton was not playing video games, or texting her lover.
The issue must be closed, and like all other attempts by Republicans to discredit her, Ms. Clinton is the winner and the GOP is a loser.
Op-Ed
By James Turnage
The Truth With No Restrictions 