Trump/Comey Feud
The name calling between Trump and Comey continued.
Trump called Comey a “slimeball” and tweeted abut Comey’s comment about the election.
Trump tweeted “Unbelievably, James Comey states that Polls, where Crooked Hillary was leading, were a factor in the handling (stupidly) of the Clinton Email probe. In other words, he was making decisions based on the fact that he thought she was going to win, and he wanted a job. Slimeball!”
Comey had an interview with George Stephanopoulos where he talked about the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
Stephanopoulos asked “Wasn’t the decision to reveal influenced by your assumption that Hillary Clinton was going to win, and your concern that, she wins, this comes out several weeks later and then that’s taken by her opponents as a sign that she’s an illegitimate President?”
“It must have been,” Comey responds, adding, “I don’t remember consciously thinking about that, but it must have been. I was operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump.”
“I’m sure that it was a factor. I don’t remember spelling it out, but it had to have been. That she’s going to be elected president, and if I hide this from the American people, she’ll be illegitimate the moment she’s elected, the moment this comes out,” he added.
The views about the feud were seen in different light by others who voiced their opinions.
“Comey’s saying all these things about the President. … To me it is not justified at all — it shows to me a bit of pettiness or b—-iness on Comey’s part,”Pete King said. “I had a much higher regard for Jim Comey before all of this.”
On the other hand “There are no low blows when it comes to this President,” said Ruben Gallego. “He’s lowered the bar so far that he doesn’t deserve the same amount of respect that other presidents have in the past. So I’m not going to criticize somebody for not holding back.”
