Former FBI director James Comey continues to demonstrate why he was precisely the wrong man to lead the FBI before he was fired by President Trump last year.
The man who was tasked with heading up the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency brought great dishonor upon the bureau during his lamentable tenure including the disgusting plot to frame the legitimately elected president through an illegitimately obtained FISA warrant and a sleazy dossier paid for by operatives with the Clinton campaign.
Comey slithered out once again on Thanksgiving morning to begin his public relations campaign after he was subpoenaed by House Republicans for his testimony related to matters regarding his role in what can only be described as a non-violent coup.
Happy Thanksgiving. Got a subpoena from House Republicans. I’m still happy to sit in the light and answer all questions. But I will resist a “closed door” thing because I’ve seen enough of their selective leaking and distortion. Let’s have a hearing and invite everyone to see.
— James Comey (@Comey) November 22, 2018
The tall man backed down on his insistence to testify in a public setting, showed up on Friday to utter the words “I don’t remember” 71 times, “I don’t know” 166 times and “I don’t recall” eight times and then gave a press conference.
Now the partisan hack who polluted the FBI with his bias is calling for Americans to “use every breath” if that’s what it takes to defeat Trump in 2020.
Comey says Americans should "use every breath we have" to get rid of President Trump in 2020 https://t.co/taB3lsu1bU pic.twitter.com/kDkU3nxiQ5
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 10, 2018
Via CBS News, “Comey says Americans should “use every breath we have” to get rid of Trump in 2020″:.
Former FBI Director James Comey called on Americans to “get off the couch” and vote to deny President Trump re-election in 2020, and he referred to Mr. Trump’s presidency as an “attack on our values.”
“I can’t see what the end of the Mueller effort looks like, I don’t know what form it’ll take, I don’t know what they’ll conclude….I can tell you that all of us should use every breath we have to make sure that the lying stops on January 20, 2021,” Comey said at a Sunday night event at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
“I hope that Donald Trump is not removed from office by impeachment because it would let the country off the hook,” Comey told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, who was moderating the event. “And it would drive into the fabric of our nation a third of the people believing there was a coup. And we need a moment of inflection, where we all get off the couch and say, ‘That is not who we are,’ and in a landslide rid ourselves of this attack on our values.” The former FBI director suggested that impeachment might “short-circuit” the political process, and “we wouldn’t have the moment of clarity we need in this country.”
That said, Comey continued, if both the House and Senate were to vote to impeach and remove Mr. Trump from office, “that’s fine.”
Comey’s sanctimonious comments came during a swanky event over the weekend on New York’s Upper East Side, exactly the type of gathering that attracts the type of high-rollers who will break out their checkbooks to back any Democrat who will oppose Trump in the race for the White House that will kick off in a few weeks.
It isn’t the first time that Comey has openly campaigned for the Democratic party either.
In July he threw his weight into a get out the vote campaign in advance of the midterms that would eventually swing the House back to Dem control.
This Republican Congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the Founders’ design that “Ambition must … counteract ambition.” All who believe in this country’s values must vote for Democrats this fall. Policy differences don’t matter right now. History has its eyes on us.
— James Comey (@Comey) July 18, 2018
Granted that Comey has a cynical self-interest in Trump’s not being reelected as he will be able to stay out of jail but every time that he opens his mouth it only underscores the partisanship at the FBI and the double standard that still exists over a year after his involuntary departure.