The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Wednesday, May 10th, 2017 from Slated to the Gist on Mike Pesca.

Vladimir Lenin would ask in focusing on the correct explanation for something that was

confusing often for something that was cacophonous, he would ask who stands to gain.

Who stands to gain? Who stands to gain from James Comey's ouster?

Well, it would be whoever Comey was investigating now that that investigation is necessarily halted.

So who was Comey investigating?

On three separate occasions, President Trump told Comey and us in his letter of dismissal,

Comey assured Trump that he Trump was not under investigation.

Did Comey, when being asked this question, that may not have ever occurred or not occurred in the way the President

said it did, did he preface his answer with talk of doors, marked conceal or disclosed unknown.

It turned out Trump took the third door in Let's Make a Deal and Comey was zonked.

So who stands to gain?

If you believe it had nothing to do with Russia, nothing at all, since there's no investigation going on,

see three assurances, a bead, then this was just the swift sword of justice over past misdeeds,

delivered three months after Trump took office.

Because this had nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do with Russia, like say,

the US honky team's miracle on ice had nothing to do with Russia.

You remember the miracle on ice, Lake Placid 1980, the US beats Finland to win the gold, totally true, check it out.

There's your miracle on ice, nothing to do with Russia.

Oh, but wait a minute, the game before the...

No, no, nothing to do with Russia.

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