Benjamin Wittes was a close friend of FBI Director James Comey.
Let’s begin in the realm of the fanciful.
Assume,
for the sake of argument, that powerful, connected people in the
intelligence community and in politics worried that a wildcard Trump
presidency, unlike another Clinton or Bush, might expose a decade-plus
of questionable practices. Disrupt long-established money channels.
Reveal secret machinations that could arguably land some people in
prison.
He would have to be marginalized at every turn. Strategies would encompass politics, the courts, opposition research and the media. He’d have to become mired in lawsuits, distracted by allegations, riddled with calls for impeachment, hounded by investigations. His election must be portrayed as the illegitimate result of a criminal or un-American conspiracy.
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