Comey Suggests He’d Still Be FBI Director If Clinton Had Won In 2016
  • 6 years ago
Former FBI Director James Comey recently suggested that he’d still be the head of the bureau if the 2016 election had gone the other way.

Former FBI Director James Comey recently suggested that he'd still be the head of the bureau if the 2016 election had gone the other way.  In an interview with Mike Allen of Axios on Monday, Comey was asked if he wished Hillary Clinton had won the presidential race.  Comey declined to answer that specific question, but did say, "I think I would still be the FBI director...Secretary Clinton is someone deeply enmeshed in the rule of law, respect for institutions, a lawyer."  "And so given that background, I'm reasonably confident that even though she was unhappy with decisions the FBI made, she would not fire the FBI director as a result," he continued. Comey was abruptly fired by Trump in May of last year and the two have since engaged in a war of insults. 
The former FBI director told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in April that Trump is "morally unfit to be president."
Meanwhile, in recent times, Trump has referred to Comey as "Slippery James Comey" and "Shady James Comey."  The president has also described him as an "untruthful slimeball," and said that "it was my great honor to fire James Comey!"
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