CNN is doing everything it can to hype fired FBI Director James Comey’s congressional testimony on Thursday.

Twitter users have ridiculed the network over the last few days since CNN featured a standing graphic on the screen reading “THURSDAY AT 10AM ET, COMEY TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS, 3 DAYS”:

As it counted down to 45 hours, Fakakta South liked it:

Others pointed it out as symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome:

https://twitter.com/peddoc63/status/872204174829670401

https://twitter.com/Zac_Petkanas/status/872288745072062464

CNN’s countdown clock may all be for naught though as ABC reports Comey is expected to “stop short” of testifying that Trump “obstructed justice” in an effort to get the FBI to stop the investigation into Michael Flynn.

ABC reports:

There will be much in former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming congressional testimony that will make the White House uncomfortable, but he will stop short of saying the president interfered with the agency’s probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a source familiar with Comey’s thinking told ABC News.

Although Comey has told associates he will not accuse the president of obstructing justice, he will dispute the president’s contention that Comey told him three times he is not under investigation.

The president allegedly said he hoped Comey would drop the Flynn investigation, a request that concerned Comey enough that he documented the conversation in a memo shortly after speaking with the president. In the memo, according to sources close to Comey who reviewed it, Trump said: “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” during a February meeting.

The request made Comey uncomfortable, but the source tells ABC News that Comey has told associates he will not accuse the president of obstructing justice.

“He is not going to Congress to make accusations about the president’s intent, instead he’s there to share his concerns,” the source said, and tell the committee “what made him uneasy” and why he felt a need to write the memo documenting the conversation.

Maybe CNN will add a countdown clock for Maxine Waters’ next call for impeachment.