{"id":30341,"date":"2018-06-16T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30341"},"modified":"2018-06-16T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:35:24","slug":"ig-report-steers-clear-of-collusion-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30341","title":{"rendered":"IG report steers clear of ‘collusion’ probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald John Trump’s fantasy land journey has taken him down yet another curious, bizarre path.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Justice inspector general issued a report this week that blasts the daylights out of former FBI director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Rodham Clinton e-mail controversy. The IG calls Comey “insubordinate” in flouting DOJ protocol in his probe of Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail server while she was secretary of state.<\/p>\n

The president’s response? It was weird in the extreme. He walked onto the White House driveway after the report became known and said the 500-page report absolves him of any “collusion” with Russians who meddled in our 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Except for this little detail: The IG report didn’t say a single word<\/em> about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into collusion, obstruction of justice and whatever else might be connected in any way to that bizarre political episode.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the Liar in Chief tossed out the “liar” epithet against Comey, whom Trump fired in May 2017 over “the Russia thing.” The inspector general’s report doesn’t challenge Comey’s credibility, only his judgment and his failure to follow DOJ policy.<\/p>\n

Will the president’s diatribe do any damage to his standing among the Republican Party “base” that continues to hang on his every lie, prevarication and misstatement of fact?<\/p>\n

Umm. Nope.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald John Trump’s fantasy land journey has taken him down yet another curious, bizarre path. The U.S. Department of Justice inspector general issued a report this week that blasts the daylights out of former FBI director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Rodham Clinton e-mail controversy. The IG calls Comey “insubordinate” in flouting DOJ protocol … Continue reading IG report steers clear of ‘collusion’ probe<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1414,1424,1693,1941,2139,7820,2278,6242,3907,3983,7162],"class_list":["post-30341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-ig-report","tag-inspector-general","tag-james-comey","tag-republican-party","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russian-meddling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30343,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30341\/revisions\/30343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}