Read the whole thing.
Let's review the timeline:
June 28 -- US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who will make the final decision on whether to prosecute Hillary Clinton, meets in her aircraft off the record and closed to media with Bill Clinton, the husband of the woman whose fate is in Lynch's hands. AG Lynch insists later that they simply talked about grandchildren, of which Lynch has exactly zero, and that the criminal investigation never came up.
July 1 -- Lynch says that she will accept the recommendations to prosecute or not made by the career DOJ prosecutors and the FBI.
July 3 -- The New York Times reports that, "Democrats close to Mrs. Clinton say she may decide to retain Ms. Lynch, the nation’s first black woman to be attorney general, who took office in April 2015."
July 5 -- President Obama flies in Air Force One to pick up Hillary Clinton for their flight together to a campaign event in Charlotte, NC. Obama permits HRC to speak from the presidential podium complete with the seal of the president and ensures that other photos display HRC near the regalia of the president's office.
Ah, what wonderful optics! Especially since on that very day:
FBI Director James Comey lays out a massively overwhelming case for criminal prosecution of Mrs. Clinton and then says the Bureau will not recommend such because, "She didn't mean to," an excuse that I found out went nowhere when I was 5 years old.
Short transcript: "James Comey Sells Out." Verbatim transcript.
July 6 (added) -- Well, that didn't take long. AG Lynch has already announced that Comey's word is the last word. And. Hillary. Walks!
What an astonishing sequence of events, both in content and in time, that have nothing to do with each other! As that great political analyst Yogi Berra once said, "It's too coincidental to be a coincidence."
And this is good for a laugh.
Update: A former US credentialed diplomat writes that this whole this is "Banana Trees All the Way to the Horizon:"
When Comey announced that he did not think any "reasonable prosecutor" (weird term) would seek an indictment of Hillary based on the evidence, "Banana Republic" was all I could think. I have spent many years in Banana Republics and know the sound, feel, and smell of them. I could see, feel, and smell acres and acres of trees sagging under the burden of nice ripe, sweet bananas all the way to the horizon and beyond. For starters, clearly what Comey said about nobody knowing the content of his address was incorrect. At a minimum, AG Lynch knew; she probably passed that info to President Obama and to Hillary's husband, and both of them passed it to Hillary. Note that Obama scheduled his campaign stop today with Hillary in tow, well before Comey's press event. He would have done that only if he knew that Comey would recommend no prosecution. All this is in the bananas portion of this evening's entertainment.Speaks for itself:
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