It depends completely on who you believe, the Left or the Right.
Facts don’t matter at this point.
Conservative news proclaims President Trump vindicated and Comey guilty.
Leftist news declares Comey the hero and Trump the villain.
In the end, facts and truth may matter… to some. In my observations I have seen Leftist routinely ignoring and denying facts and truth when they don’t lead to the conclusion they prefer. If the facts indict the conservative, the Left cheers. If the facts prove the conservative is innocent, the Left ignores the facts and invents their own “truth”.
Conservatives are much more willing to follow the facts even when they indict one of their own.
When the shoe is on the other foot, the behavior is much the same. If the facts demonstrate corruption or malfeasance of a Leftist (say, Hillary Clinton), the Left deflects, denies and defends, ignoring the facts and the truth.
The “truth” you believe could be an indication of the agenda you support. It is a given that some on the left and the right will actually let the truth lead wherever it goes, but for most everything “depends” on your personal world view.
Scripture gives some insight to this conundrum. 2 Thess. 2:11 says, “And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie”.
Ronald Reagan understood this problem when he said, “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
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I agree with President Ronald Regan wherein he said, “You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down.” For me, what is known as “The Left,” and, “The Right,” is merely for those that wish to argue, fuss and fight childishly over who is right, and/or who is wrong.
How does one expect to become known to be a, “Peacemaker,” if one is always focused and concerned on being right and proving all others wrong?
The Apostle Paul said this another way, “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” (1 Corinthians 13:11) In other words, if one is going to put an end to childish things, such as arguments over right and wrong, left and right, conservative and liberal, democrat and republican, and truly become the, “Peacemaker,” that is written of in Matthew 5:9, in conjunction with Romans 8:17, and Romans 13:8-10, then the ego tripping about wanting to be right, and proving all others wrong, must cease and desist for all time and eternity.
The only concern to be concerned with is, “What is the truth to this matter,” and in connection with that concern the approach and attitude of, “I want to know the truth no matter what the cost is to be personally.” For whatever the truth is, it stands a part from all bias points of view, no matter what the viewpoint is. So then, until one is only concerned with the truth for all matters, the unfortunate childishness of right and wrong will continue until there has truly been a change of mind concluding to put away the childish things, just as Paul wrote.