The former FBI Director has recently admitted that his comments about one of two Americans running for President in 2016 where ill timed….
His judgement call on Hillary Clinton he now admits influenced the election….At the time he put his views out he thought Clinton was a sure winner for the Presidency ….
He was wrong…
James Comey to his credit never wavered in his view that he was NOT a supposed to be a Donald Trump puppet…
He reveals in new book that from his first meeting with Trump ….
He realized that something was horribly wrong and began keeping notes of his interactions with the President of the United States whose concerns where NOT about the 300M+ Americans…But solely himself….
Comey is gonna make a lot of money in the next year…
He is good be a hero to those of us who think Donald Trump should NOT have his present day job…
But in making his money?
Comey is gonna go thru the same meat grinder that all famous people do….
His warts will be shown in the media….
A lot of us will not care…
We will be grateful that a public servant did his job for US…
We will be happy that Trump in firing someone that he acme afraid of triggered an effort that will probably be his undoing…
But there will be those who embrace Donald Trump operating style of attacking anyone that does NOT agree with him or questions his views…
Most of us would call that being ‘thin skinned’ something politicians , of which Trump really isn’t , learn to NOT be…
Trump has made his own problems by extending his response to criticism by countering with untruths and ineptitude ….Someone described as the actions of a 8 year old….
The sorry thing that will unfold as Comey sells his book, gives people a view of what he has seen in the ‘leader’? Of the free world, and gets even….Is that the book will just be seen by Trump supporters as another effort knock on them….
And THAT is a pity….
The new book, and Comey’s associated publicity tour, is a giant splash of lighter fluid on this week’s Trump administration conflagration, one that was already well-tindered by Monday’s raid on the home and office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, the persistent existence of Stormy Daniels in general, another potential tabloid payoff, and an assortment of other disasters that do not bode well for the president. In his memoir, Comey compares the administration to a forest fire, but at this point, it’s not merely combustible, it’s potentially explosive — and if Trump’s anger level is already at an all-time high, the book was the last thing he needed.
It’s hard to blame Comey for that, though — book publication dates don’t generally follow the minute-by-minute fluctuations of the news cycle. And at any rate, Comey’s most explosive claims appear to be observations that have been made before and facts that have already verified elsewhere. For example, when Comey compares Trump to a mob boss, he’s not saying anything that hasn’t been documented elsewhere, much of it for decades. A representative line from an article in the April 1991 issue of Spy magazine: “A mobster who knew Trump socially said of him once, ‘he’d lie to you about what time of day it is — just for the practice.’ ” Comey isn’t even the first Republican to make that comparison.
[Congressional Republicans are spineless. They’re not going to save Mueller.]
But to the Trumpist die-hards, any criticism is a provocation, no matter how plain and irrefutable its validity or veracity. The speaker does not matter, only that what the speaker is saying is oppositional. This is how the GOP performs the sort of moral contortions that led the party to create a website, lyincomey.com, with the explicit purpose of smearing the former FBI director, a registered Republican, ahead of publication of his book…..
Note….
Comey will be on ABC tonight….
The interview with George Stephanopoulos is sure to drive media headlines for the following 48 hours and drive Trump up a wall and back down over and OVER…
(Stephanopoulos worked for Bill Clinton back in the day)
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