I started to wonder about that this morning.
‘First, I find it hard to believe that Comey didn’t know that the notification of the extension of the e-mail “scandal”, just days before the election would seriously damage the Clinton campaign. [Parsing that sentence … yeah, I think it’s right.] It had to be done with the knowledge of such damage. Comey knew that his actions might put Trump into the office of the President.
He also knew, given the timing of the notification against the background of the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the election, that Trump was Russia’s candidate. He was the frigging Director of the FBI, for gods’ sake. He had access to the intel.
So, here’s the what if.
What if, recognizing that a weakened Democrat as President would be the best that the Russians (or, indeed, Trump himself) could reasonably expect, what if Comey deliberately sought to throw the election to Trump to bring on a Constitutional crisis. Could that have been the only way to save us?