Thursday, March 28, 2024

In New Interview to Promote Book James Comey Says Donald Trump is Like a ‘Mob Boss’ (VIDEO)

*OK Donald Trump, you already know it, but for the record, James Comey is comin’ for you. That’s riiiight. The former FBI director, the one you fired, is on the promotion trail with his new book and he ain’t holding nothing back. In his first interview since being given the boot, Comey sat with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos to discuss his tell-all book, “A Higher Loyalty.”

The bottom, bottom line is this: Comey believes Trump is unfit for the job of president.

“Our president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country,” he explains. “The most important being truth. This president is not able to do that. He is morally unfit to be president.”

Getting more specific, Comey adds:

“A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they’re pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it, that person’s not fit to be president of the United States, on moral grounds. And that’s not a policy statement. Again, I don’t care what your views are on guns or immigration or taxes.”

In his book, Comey compares Trump to a mob boss. In response, Stephanopoulos asks Comey how strange it must feel to make that comparison.

“Very strange,” Comey responds. “And I don’t do it lightly. I’m not trying to, by the way, suggest that President Trump is out breaking legs and—you know, shaking down shopkeepers. But instead, what I’m talking about is that leadership culture constantly comes back to me when I think about my experience with the Trump administration. The loyalty oaths, the boss as the dominant center of everything, it’s all about how do you serve the boss, what’s in the boss’s interests. It’s the family, the family, the family, the family. That’s why it reminds me so much and not, ‘So what’s the right thing for the country and what are the values of the institutions that we’re dealing with?'”

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George Stephanopoulos & james comey
George Stephanopoulos & James Comey

Getting into the details of his first meeting with Trump just days before the inauguration, Comey says the president-elect was briefed on Russia’s attempt to interfere with the election. But instead of taking in the ramifications on the fate of the country, Trump’s team immediately tried spinning it from a PR perspective.

“The conversation, to my surprise, moved into a PR conversation about how the Trump team would position this and what they could say about this,” Comey says. “I don’t remember any questions about, ‘So what are they going to do next; how might we stop it? What’s the future look like? Because we’ll be custodians of the security of this country.’ There was none of that.” Comey adds, “It was all, ‘What can we say about what they did and how it affects the election that we just had?'”

For the most part, Comey avoided commenting on the ongoing Russia investigation. But he did admit that he thought there was some level of obstruction of justice involved when Trump cleared the Oval Office so he could ask him to drop the FBI’s investigation into Michael Flynn.

“If he didn’t know he was doing something improper, why did he kick out the attorney general and the vice president of the United States and the leaders of the intelligence community?” Comey asks. “It’s certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice.”

Comey says he was just as surprised as everyone else that he was fired in the middle of an important ongoing investigation:

“I thought it’s crazy to fire me. I’m leading the investigation of Russian influence—in particular, whether anyone in the Trump orbit had coordinated and conspired with the Russians. That makes no sense at all.”

The interview follows repeated attempts by Donald Trump this weekend to attack the character of Comey. And now that he book is about to published, Comey, a registered Republican, is facing a barrage of negative feedback from other, Trump supporting members of the GOP in an effort to minimalize any damage done to Trump and the Republican Party because of its support for him.

James Comey’s book- “A Higher Loyalty” – is officially out on Tuesday.

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