Comey gives his testimony and the contents seem fairly damning. There is complete silence from the Trump administration, even though Trump said he would be responding to the testimony live. Comey says he thinks he was fired due to the Russia investigation, says he thought Trump was asking for "loyalty" and found it disturbing. He also makes it completely clear that the intelligence community is certain that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
At one point in the testimony, Comey mentions leaking some info to a friend of his in order to prompt a hearing/investigation into this whole thing. The information leaked was not classified information.
Trump's lawyers issue a statement basically saying Trump is off the hook, and Comey's testimony proves he did nothing wrong. Their statement literally says that Comey's testimony proved Russia wasn't interfering in the election, when Comey actually said the exact opposite.
Now someone has given Trump his phone back, and he decides to tweet:
"Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication...and WOW, Comey is a leaker!"
Are you really falling for this shit?
If I understand right, there was no evidence of any wrong doing. Just Comey trying to make his opinion sound more important than it is.
Correct me if I am wrong, I have not been following closely.
Since it sounds like Comey had no evidence of any wrong doing by Trump, I think it is fair to say Trump was vindicated.
This was it, all the opposition had against Trump, and it turns out to be nothing but hot air.
That is a huge win for Trump.