In a September interview with The Daily Caller, President Trump alleged that former FBI Director James Comey and Special Counsel Robert Mueller had a lurid\u2026<\/b>
\nIn a September interview with The Daily Caller, President Trump alleged that former FBI Director James Comey and Special Counsel Robert Mueller had a lurid bromance that bordered on perhaps being even more. \u201c(Robert Mueller is) Comey\u2019s best friend,\u201d President Trump stated. \u201cAnd I could give you 100 pictures of him and Comey hugging and kissing each other. You know, he\u2019s Comey\u2019s best friend.\u201d
Determined to get to the bottom of this highly inappropriate and subversive romance, BuzzFeed news reporter Jason Leopold filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, demanding that they produce the damning photos of Mueller and Comey \u201chugging and kissing each other\u201d. Much to everyone\u2019s disappointment, the FBI was unable to produce any records that matched Leopold\u2019s request:
???????????????????? #FOIA pic.twitter.com\/K9TCy2Sj87
\u2014 Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 18,2018
Undeterred, President Trump doubled down in a tweet prior to Comey\u2019s testimony before lawmakers on Friday, including what was no doubt an intentional spelling error:
Robert Mueller and Leakin\u2019 Lyin\u2019 James Comey are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest. And bye the way, wasn\u2019t the woman in charge of prosecuting Jerome Corsi (who I do not know) in charge of \u201clegal\u201d at the corrupt Clinton Foundation? A total Witch Hunt\u2026
\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7,2018
\u201cAre you best friends with Robert Mueller?\u201d Nadler suddenly asked Comey. A quiet descended upon the proceedings.
\u201cComey also used the occasion to take aim at Trump\u2019s barbs at the criminal justice system, saying \u201cwe have become numb to lying and attacks on the rule of law by the president,\u201d as well as Trump\u2019s contention that it should be a crime for subjects to flip.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/c7Xrk7G06b
\u2014 Eric Tucker (@etuckerAP) December 9,2018
\u201cI am not,\u201d Comey said. \u201cI admire the heck out of the man, but I don\u2019t know his phone number, I\u2019ve never been to his house, I don\u2019t know his children\u2019s names. I think I had a meal once alone with him in a restaurant. I like him. I am not a \u2014 I\u2019m an associate of his who admires him greatly. We\u2019re not friends in any social sense.\u201d
Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy\u2019s (R-SC) fists clenched in breathless anticipation. The inquisition had finally trapped its quarry. Comey and Mueller. Having a meal. In a restaurant. Alone. This was officially a date, the bromance potentially tipping into romance.
Then, the Democrats sabotaged the proceedings, giving further evidence to President Trump\u2019s assertions that the Comey and Mueller investigations were \u201cA total witch hunt\u201d.
\u201cI will not ask whether you\u2019ve ever hugged or kissed,\u201d Nadler capitulated, a self-congratulatory smirk coming across his face as all the air went out of the room.
\u201cA relief to my wife,\u201d Comey deadpanned, no doubt relieved himself.
Not to be denied, the House Judiciary Committee will bring Comey back for a second round of questioning on December 17th. The world waits in breathless anticipation to see if the Committee can turn the tables and the Grand Inquisitor-In-Chief Trump will be vindicated.
Robert Mueller, as usual, had no comment.
Such is the current state of American politics.<\/p>\n