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A Cowardly FBI Director Clears the Path for Trump’s Takeover
Fascist takeovers are facilitated by multiple acts of cowardice. Like little cuts, one after another, until the body is covered with hundreds and the blood loss becomes so substantial that medical attention is required, the cowards think that the decision to fight him no longer won’t really matter in the big picture: “Let someone else fight him off. I have a nice life and a lot of money. It’s time to get working on those 1000-piece puzzles.”
Good luck with those puzzles, Director Wray. While you are off at what I am sure is just the most picturesque homestead, tucked somewhere safely in the mountains of Virginia — one of those communities that are protected at the expense of taxpayers by unseen satellites and creeping snipers — we will be dealing with the repercussions of your infidelity to the Constitution. You gave an oath to protect and serve, and nowhere in that oath does it offer an escape hatch for you to take the easy way out, sir.
You are a lifelong Republican, so we have next to nothing in common; but from what I can tell, you have done an outstanding job leading the bureau. James Comey left it a mess, and it was more a reflection of his insecurities and unfulfilled aspirations than it was the nation’s leading…
