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it means that Twain could have found fault with historical Islam and contemporary America. Is that really so hard to fathom?

By the time he was through, Twain pretty much hated everybody

OK...I'm done on this particular subject.

Yes. So?

And what nuances are there?

The ones that allow you to interpret what someone says to fit your partisanship?

Near the end of our dinner, the President returned to the subject of my job, saying he was very glad I wanted to stay, adding that he had heard great things about me from Jim Mattis, Jeff Sessions, and many others. He then said, “I need loyalty.” I replied, “You will always get honesty from me.” He paused and then said, “That’s what I want, honest loyalty.” I paused, and then said, “You will get that from me.” As I wrote in the memo I created immediately after the dinner, it is possible we understood the phrase “honest loyalty” differently, but I decided it wouldn’t be productive to push it further. The term – honest loyalty – had helped end a very awkward conversation and my explanations had made clear what he should expect.

Comey tried to just say, honest, but Trump had to add loyalty.

I mean, like, let's say you had to make a choice between killing either:

1. One 97 year-old American, dying of cancer, or

2. One thousand newborn FOREIGN babies.

Only a damn commie would pick #1, eh?

Walter Hinteler wrote:

Comey's Statement for the Record - Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

I just read this. The cheese-eaters are going to go wild! Nothing there to suggest any wrong-doing by Trump, and several things which put him in a good light. For example:

Quote:

January 6 Briefing

I discussed with the FBI’s leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally. That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do so if circumstances...

During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.

February 14 Oval Office Meeting

I had understood the President to be requesting that we drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in December. I did not understand the President to be talking about the broader investigation into Russia or possible links to his campaign.

March 30 Phone Call

He described the Russia investigation as “a cloud” that was impairing his ability to act on behalf of the country....He asked what we could do to “lift the cloud.” I responded that we were investigating the matter as quickly as we could, and that there would be great benefit, if we didn’t find anything, to our having done the work well. He agreed, but then re-emphasized the problems this was causing him....

The President went on to say that if there were some “satellite” associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out, but that he hadn’t done anything wrong and hoped I would find a way to get it out that we weren’t investigating him.

He then said, “I need loyalty.” I replied, “You will always get honesty from me.” He paused and then said, “That’s what I want, honest loyalty.” I paused, and then said, “You will get that from me.”