Posted on 01/12/2019 10:34:53 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Former FBI Director James Comey shared a quote from former President Franklin D. Roosevelt about judging one by the enemies they make after President Trump issued his latest round of attacks aimed at Comey on Saturday.
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made," Comey tweeted, quoting the former president.
His tweet came hours after the president renewed his criticism of the former FBI director with a series of tweets and a White House statement blasting the nation's former agency chief.
Trump's latest criticism followed a late Friday report from The New York Times detailing how the agency launched an investigation into whether Trump was acting on the direction of Russia after firing Comey in 2017.
After ousting Comey from the FBI, Trump told NBC News at the time that the decision was made due to Comey's handling of the Russia investigation. The Times reports that the decision and Trump's subsequent explanation so alarmed FBI agents that a probe was immediately launched focusing on the president himself.
"Wow, just learned in the Failing New York Times that the corrupt former leaders of the FBI, almost all fired or forced to leave the agency for some very bad reasons, opened up an investigation on me, for no reason & with no proof, after I fired Lyin’ James Comey, a total sleaze!" Trump tweeted Saturday morning.
Subsequent tweets from the president attacked Comey's character, referring to the former FBI chief as a "crooked cop" who Trump argued had overstepped his authority at the Justice Department.
"My firing of James Comey was a great day for America. He was a Crooked Cop who is being totally protected by his best friend, Bob Mueller, & the 13 Angry Democrats," Trump added Saturday.
Comey has remained a vocal critic of the president since his ouster, and frequently attacked the president last year during a media tour surrounding the release of his memoir, "A Higher Loyalty," which in part detailed his time in the Trump and Obama administrations.
Totally agree.
comeystain is more crooked than Deep Throat who went to prison for his actions against the Weather Underground and others.
Deep Throat’s identity wasn’t revealed to Nixon, who went to bat for him appearing to testify in his defense.
Just because you are a cop doesn’t mean you can break the law, Comeystain.
Comey’s loyalty was ALWAYS with Obama and Clinton..ANYONE else would have filed charges against Hillary Clinton, but NOT Comey, his loyalty was with HER and Obama..he should have been fired DAY ONE, shown the door and kicked out..dont know why President Trump kept him on for a few more months, never understood that
Is he channeling his inner “FDR”? This guy is such a clown. He’s now F(ing) D(umb) Comey.
Comey is the definition of douchebag, and he is the largest and most intense douchebag in the universe. I'd rather share a jail cell will Hillary and Obama and Manson at the same time than with this negative force. Comey's drippy rotted sweet faux morality is the most toxic emotional energy I've ever had to look at and listen to in my life.
I don't pay him much attention, but when I do, I feel like I'm staring into an evil more subtle and deep than Aric Barhwin.
Lets see Occasional-Cortex and now Comey somehow identify with FDR. What a joke, I certainly might agree with a raft of FDR’s political policies but as Commander In Chief he did do a fantastic job. Neither of these people on their best day would be fit to lick FDR’s shoes clean.
Idiot leftist so called news organizations are repeating normal statements as if they are proof of treason with Russia.
Ive read these articles, if Mueller is taking any of it seriously he’s an absolute kook.
Look, Trump fired jackass Comey, must be treason!
Wow! That is exactly why I voted for Trump. Trump had all the right enemies. If I thought that Trump was going to sell out, I could not see who he would sell out too. Every group hated him. Especially all those groups who watered down my understanding of government. So as long as the press, the RINOs, the left, and the swamp, all hate Trump, I am likely to continue to vote for him.
He’s just as lame...
His enemy, the United States of America. Bragging rights for a communist.
comey and his brother should be judged by the
criminals they helped.
Screw you Comey!!!! You should be in prison.
He’ll never get over being fired.
Good.
I’d rather judge Comey by the friends he has kept and covered for.
Trump spent a year and a half exposing the mainstream media in this country as a partisan tool of the Democratic Party ... and then he gives NBC an exclusive interview where he comes out and says on national television that he fired Comey over the Russia investigation?
WTF?
I hope Comey ends up serving the lengthy prison sentence he so richly deserves.
These people are unbelievable.
It’s a two way street...It’s called....a backfire.
What a giant load of bullcrap they tried to sell everyone.
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