Tommy Vietor

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.

He's like a special government employee about some random thing, like surveillance technology or something.

Yeah.

It does seem like Daniel Richman was a bit of a carve out for Jim Comey when he wanted to work the media on a certain thing.

But like that doesn't mean it's a crime.

Nothing.

Look, also, Kash Patel clearly lied to Congress in his confirmation hearings.

If they want to set a precedent where people like Kash Patel are going to get prosecuted after the fact for that behavior, that that's OK.

That's a road you can go down, but it's not a great one for anybody.

Yeah, but also I look, I think that the people working for Trump.