Tommy Vietor

It's great.

Sometimes you've been sitting all day long and you think to yourself, my posture is bad and I feel gross and I just want to stand up and stretch my legs.

Yeah, sometimes you can do it.

Yeah, so it's just clearly about revenge, and Trump told us as much.

And Comey is going first only because the statute of limitations is about to run out, but there is a long list that we're just going to tick through.

And the goal is not just to punish Comey, although that's part of it.

I mean, I think there's a very good chance that this case gets tossed.

You could imagine a scenario where the judge scolds the prosecutor for bringing something this ridiculous.

Like, to only get 14 out of 23 grand jurors to support this indictment is an incredibly weak case.

It's embarrassing.

But it's about scaring the shit out of Democrats and political opponents and making sure that big Democratic donors no longer want to support Democratic organizations and putting fear in the heart of his enemies.

And the exchange with Ted Cruz that this case is ostensibly built off of is confusing at best.

At best.

But in reality, I don't think any reasonable person would read that given the facts that we know and assume a crime was committed.

One like bitter irony or frustrating piece of context around all of this is I'm pretty sure we are talking about

conversations about leaks to a reporter who was writing something about investigations into the Clinton Foundation.

And those investigations went nowhere because there was no illegal activity or wrongdoing.

But the FBI and DOJ seem to have been working overtime to blame each other in the press because the other side didn't want to get called up to Congress to get berated by someone like Ted Cruz to say, why aren't you prosecuting the Clinton Foundation?

And I think that's why there was all this talk

via intermediaries or whatnot with this reporter about these articles that led to this stupid outcome.