In his April 19 letter (“Comey shows true self with potshots in new book”), Michael DiStefano states that former FBI Director James Comey’s book is full of presidential potshots.
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With an nearly god-like complex, Comey paints himself in the book as the savior of the nation.
Mueller, who was appointed after Comey was sacked by Trump in May of 2017, is tasked with investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. He is a man of integrity, which I can not say about Trump. 16% said their views of him went down after they watched. “It is the ballast that gives me comfort, and I hope should give all Americans comfort, but that can be damaged in significant ways”. The former national security adviser under President Clinton pleaded guilty to the unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the National Archives.
A CNN reporter at the party asked Comey about the assertion – from one of Comey’s own memos – that he assailed government leakers and laughed after Trump floated the idea of jailing journalists to target leakers.
At the Tuesday reception hosted by his literary agency Javelin, Comey said it was his “first book party ever”. The Wall Street Journal also reported at least two memos contained redacted information.
Now we know how the wall-to-wall media coverage of him, his book, and his story – as well as President Donald Trump’s many tweets about the former Federal Bureau of Investigation chief and his tell-all – may have impacted his book’s sales. “So my staff had to box my stuff up and send it home”.
“Pre-released excerpts of Comey’s book include such politically astute observations as, “(Trump’s) face appeared slightly orange with bright white half-moons under his eyes where I assumed he placed small tanning goggles, and impressively coiffed, bright blonde hair, which upon close inspection looked to be all his….”
“That lesson has stayed with me and reminded me of my own weakness and of the weakness of all good people in groups”, Comey said. He wanted the then-FBI director to know, Comey later wrote in a memo, that not only did he not consort with hookers in a Moscow hotel room in 2013, it was an impossibility. “And you’re finding the facts in a world where everybody’s on a side, and can’t possibly understand you’re not on a side”.
Comey also weighed in on the Parkland, Fla. gun-control activists, saying, “I don’t know where it will lead”.
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Although he has said post-publication that he regrets a paragraph in which he describes Trump’s appearance – with an emphasis on the size of his hands – he suggested his editor was to blame, he was “trying to be an author, something I’ve never been before, and bring the reader into the scene”. New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow recently referred to Mr. Comey as having “made reckless and harmful disclosures and proclamations about the Clinton investigation while not whispering a word about the concurrent investigation into the Trump campaign”.
