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Peter Burgess

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I think the paragraph quoted above is quite a bombshell from Harry Reid that has the potential to swing the election massively away from Trump and through its effects on turnout can have down-ballot impact on House and Senate as well.

So I am a bit surprised it hasn’t got more traction at Kos.

Highlighting it here because

It suggests there is specific information in FBI possession, not just vague innuendo and suspicion linking Trump to Putin.

Since this specific information is at least several months old, it is more than likely that ongoing followups have added to that trove of information.

Note a separate full sentence “There is no danger to American interests from releasing it”, further cementing the idea that the information is specific.

If Reid has it, so do all the other Republican Senators and at least some House members, making them complicit in their endorsement of Trump. No longer can they hide behind the idea that they support him just as “the party nominee”.

Everyone would recall FBI has specifically refused to comment or even confirm if they are even investigating Trump’s Russia connection. So the FBI double standard in keeping on going after Clinton is laid very bare and helps undermine the credibility and legitimacy of the entire Clinton Email scandal which has just been blown out of all reasonable proportion.

The full letter is here.

In his letter to James Comey accusing him of violating the Hatch Act, Harry Reid also accused Comey of being privy to “explosive information” regarding Trump’s ties to Russia. This is an act of terrible political genius bordering on savagery on the part of Harry Reid. Of course the term “explosive information” means nothing at all, but we do know that there is evidence of ties between Trump and Russia because, if nothing else, Trump has sold property to Russian buyers. This means that James Comey now has only two possible responses to this accusation if pressed about it by the press. He can either: Confirm that the Senator is right that he is aware of connections between Mr. Trump and Russia or Say that as a federal agent, commenting on a presidential candidate’s affairs at this time would be a violation of the Hatch Act In the first scenario, the media will naturally interpret it as proof that Trump is a Russian agent and run with it, likely dragging the Republican party down with him. In the second, Comey is admitting that he abused his position as head of the FBI for partisan purposes and casts doubt on any Republican’s good faith, probably dragging the party down with him. Either way, Democrats win, and therefore so does Senator Reid. What a badass! We’ll miss how you do things like this while Republicans think you’re just senile when you retire Senator.