Victor Davis Hanson: Comey Joins Long Line of Lying Left-Wing FBI Officials

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Former FBI Director James Comey is under the microscope again, this time hiding behind a ridiculous "seashell" defense after allegedly posting a veiled threat against Donald Trump. While the legacy media rushes to dismiss the "86/47" beach message as a harmless coincidence, Comey’s long record of selective amnesia and partisan leaks tells a much darker story. From orchestrating the Russia collusion hoax to shielding Hillary Clinton's illegal homebrew servers, this latest stunt highlights the sheer arrogance of a thoroughly weaponized justice system. It is past time to hold the architects of the Deep State accountable for years of lying to Congress and betraying the American people, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
0:13.6	James Comey, the former director of the FBI, was again indicted recently.
0:19.3	This time for putting on his social media a picture of seashells
0:25.5	that were arranged to convey a message threatening Donald Trump. And the message was 86-47.
0:33.8	In other words, however you defined 86, I grew up in the 1960s and 70s where the term was used
0:40.8	to eject somebody from a bar, but over the ensuing decades, people had used it in an eliminationist
0:49.1	fashion. The mafia, get rid of somebody, 86M, killed them. But here's the problem.
0:56.3	James Comey says that he was just walking along the beach,
1:00.3	and he happened to see this message,
1:02.8	and he didn't quite know what it meant.
1:05.5	Why would he put something on social media if he didn't know what it meant,
1:09.9	and how in the world would the FBI
1:13.5	director who's supposed to be all knowledgeable of all the terms that gangsters use or bars use
1:21.1	this is comes with the field and he claims he didn't know what he was doing but why would he do
1:27.3	it in the first place?
1:29.2	More importantly, we have had three assassination attempts of Donald Trump.
1:34.1	So when you look at the case ostensibly, you say, well, what's so wrong in the free speech
1:39.7	America just putting out a seashell message?
1:43.2	Well, nothing is wrong if that's what it was, but we don't know what it was.
1:48.0	In other words, we don't know to what degree he might have made the message,
1:52.0	or he deliberately wanted to convey a message in a climate
1:56.0	in which the President of the United States is in constant jeopardy of being shot, and he was the former FBI
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