The Trump administration is "investigating" James Comey. And it's definitely to distract the public from the Epstein cover-up.

Small kudos to Gretchen Carlson on CNN for actually remembering the tremendous help James Comey was to the Trump campaign in 2016. Comey announced that Hillary Clinton was under criminal investigation mere weeks before Election Day 2016. Another "but her emails" "investigation" that came to nothing, except convincing enough swing voters to pick Trump.

GRETCHEN CARLSON: This is something they campaigned on, but really we only hear that and see that through the social media influencers who are MAGA, right?

And they can't even agree on a lot of these different controversies right now.

But I do think it's interesting also to point out that Jim Comey is somebody who you could argue actually helped Trump win the election in 2016, because he's the one who started and opened the investigation back into the Hillary Clinton emails right before the election, which was not a positive thing for her.

So I think it's interesting now that the tables have turned.

I mean, Trump has not liked Comey for a very long time, but one could argue that he actually helped Trump win the election the first time around.

If you ask most Democrats about Jim Comey, they certainly agree that he was very important in Hillary Clinton's defeat.

It's good for Gretchen Carlson to actually remember the past, but let's also admit this new "Comey investigation" is to distract from the Epstein cover-up.

Frances Langum contributed to this post.