re: An attempted coup is what this was

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Comey handed the election to Trump. What more do you want

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Why is this so difficult.

Comey "reopened" the "investigation" into Hillary strictly as a pretentious, tactical move solely because her win was predicted as a sure thing.

So with the "sure thing" looming, he fully believed that there wasn't a safer move for him to make that would also benefit him on two fronts.

After her victory, Comey could return after a discreet amount of time and reiterate that after a second even more detailed look they found nothing in the reopened investigation that would justify continuing it.

This would've given her a clean slate to take office with nothing hanging over her, and an inconvenience Comey would never have to deal with ever again as the agency's continuing Director.

But the best laid plans of vipers and harpies.