Comey's Dad Rips Trump: "I thought he belonged in an institution"

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The Hill? @thehill 2m2 minutes ago
Comey's father rips Trump: “I’m convinced that he’s nuts"http://hill.cm/HA2gXED


____ James Comey’s father defended the former FBI director on Friday while returning criticism of President Trump, calling him "nuts."

“I never was crazy about Trump,” J. Brien Comey, 86, told NorthJersey.com for a column on the view of residents in the former FBI chief's hometown of Allendale, N.J.

“I’m convinced that he’s nuts," continued the elder Comey, a Republican who formerly served as a borough councilman, referring to Trump. "I thought he belonged in an institution. He was crazy before he became president. Now he’s really crazy.”

read: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/334376-comeys-father-on-trump-he-is-a-nut-job



Joy Reid?@JoyAnnReid
Papa Comey is not here for any of the bull. Don't even try him.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Trump has severe personality disorders, is a great danger to all around him

which is now all life on earth.


And if the GOP had patriots, we could prevent the end of all life, but the GOP has only hypocrites.

I keep waiting to see if ONE will come out and DEMAND impeachment. Well, one did, cant remember the name.

ONE? R U kidding me?


Wait, that was a democrat, wasnt it.

So not even one?

[bigtree]

2. a lie about a sexual encounter

...never struck me as rising to the level where my vote for Bill Clinton should be negated by Congress.

We're in an entirely different universe with Trump with issues directly related to our national security. I understand there are hundreds of legislators still in Congress who voted for that impeachment. Their silence today lays bare their shallowness and hypocrisy.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Republicans havent won the WH since 1988. When they lose and cant steal, they

do everything they can to destroy the president and the country.

Entire Clinton and Obama administrations are proof.

They have not been patriots since IKE.

We are in big trouble now, and I dont know the answer.

[Cosmocat]

10. My rntire

My entire adult life (since the early 90s) they have been completely deluded, power hungry scumbags.

What I don't get is how no matter how deep the rat hole they drag this country into, or how often, we just keep indulging their fuck wittery.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Ahem. Republican patriots forced Nixon to resign in 1974. . . . nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

20. true

[Honeycombe8]

12. I agree. There's something wrong with him, and it's getting worse. nt

[Bleacher Creature]

3. It's too bad your son got him elected.

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I'll take great pleasure in watching Comey take down this administration, but don't for a second think that I'll ever forgive Comey for what he did in 2016.

[LisaL]

11. My feelings exactly.

I don't have any doubt that Comey's letters helped elect Trump.

[Bleacher Creature]

13. And if you did have doubts, this should help dispel them.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/

[still_one]

5. Your son isn't much better after he violated the hatch act. Now it looks like KARMA

for both trump and Comey, and it couldn't happen to more deseved people

[Bleacher Creature]

6. Amen.

I'll never support Comey as a person. His battle with Trump represents something much larger, and in that case I'll support him only so far as he represents the system.

[still_one]

7. You stated it perfectly. I wish they would ask his dad who he voted for

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8. that's a shortsighted and selective narrative

...which inexplicably omits Comey's entire investigation of Trump before he was fired, not to mention his reported diligence in documenting Trump's obstruction of his investigation - obstruction now looming as the most damning and actionable allegation against Trump.

If you think revisiting the campaign, that election, is some sort of redemptive course for our party, you're going to be as disappointed in that as Trump is in his own obsession with the campaign.

[still_one]

15. This has nothing to with any redemptive course, Comey ignored the AG who told him

that not to interfere 11 days before the election, and release the letter the to republicans in Congress, and Comey effectively said, "screw you" to the AG.

You seem to have the selective narrative I might add. That Russian connection, and trump's involvement had been going on way before the election, and Comey conveniently keep that hush, hush between Congress, and himself. Like most things going on, it was double standard bullshit.

They both deserve what they got. Comey deserved to be fired, not during this investigation, but the double standard way he dealt with Hillary verses trump before the election.

Comey exonerated Hillary in one breath, and condemned her actions in the same sentence. As far as I am concerned both Comey and trump can go to hell. Comey interfered with the election just as much as trump's collusion with the Russians

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17. take a look at where all of that gets you today

...the only ones I've heard anxious to revisit the election are republicans - most notably Trump, and also Lindsey Graham, who announced his intention this week to encourage a renewed search for incriminating Hillary emails.

The folly in dwelling on all of that couldn't be clearer. It does absolutely nothing to confront Trump, and actually serves to keep Americans mired in the past, right where Trump and his supporters want us; obsessed with a divisive election - attacking the person who was investigating him - rather than focusing on Trump's corruption.

[still_one]

25. i happen to think violation of the Hatch Act, interference in our election system is important, and

incidentally that is exacatly what the special counsel has been appointed is tasked to investigate, along with obstruction of that investigation

This isn't about mired in the past, in fact the Democrats in congress universally agree on that. Perhaps you didn't notice that when Comey was before Congress the Democrats did question Comey on his inappropriate actions, because they were rightfully concerned about the FBI interfering in the election process

Shame on those Democrats for living in the past



Sorry but I do not hold Comey with the same esteem as you apparently do

[still_one]

33. It's your thread, and you have every right of course to direct it as you choose

[bigtree]

34. good luck with that

...right?

[still_one]

35. Geez, you have quite a chip on your shoulder don't you?

[bigtree]

36. you're not very self-aware

...or, maybe just being obtuse about jumping onto a humorous, anti-Trump thread determined to stick your anti-Comey screed as far down
my craw as you could manage.

[still_one]

37. LOL. First you accuse me of hijacking your thread, and now you say I am not self-aware.

ok

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38. this'll work

...blocking you.

[still_one]

39. I don't block anyone, but by all means, go for it

[trueblue2007]

9. Good assessment, too bad the GOP leaders don'g agree.

[L. Coyote]

16. Right on.

[onetexan]

18. I recall someone posted on this board that Comey had a trump-pence sign on his lawn

during the elections last year. Wonder if Comey's dad knows his son's political leanings back then before he blasted trump. 'What's past is prologue' rings a bell.

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19. his son lead an investigation into Trump and his campaign beginning last June

...I suspect he knows and appreciates that his efforts could result in the impeachment of the president.

Kinda disproves the campaign sign story (not to mention the debunking at the time rumor appeared)

[onetexan]

29. i have mixed feelings about comey and his positions

same as Hillary does. I think many of us here feel Comey's letter did damage Hillary's chances 9 days before the election. He clearly violated the Hatch Act and yet no action was taken against him. Obama should have done something in his remaining days.

Re: the yard sign, can someone send me the link to the thread that debunked that story's unraveling?

[bigtree]

31. here's one account, which I think speaks for the rest

Buzzfeed:

...photo showing a Trump lawn sign outside the home of FBI Director James Comey is being shared as evidence of his political bias. But there's no evidence that Comey had anything to do with the sign.

...Public records indicate that Comey does own the 7,000-square-foot house, but it has been on the market since June of 2015

[JI7]

30. that was fake

[No Vested Interest]

21. Can't help but wondering how tall is J. Brien Comey. nt

[BamaRefugee]

22. I'm willing to bet

Comey's Dad voted for Trump. Grouchy old man, Republican politician, lives in and raised son in town known as a Republican bastion, son becomes a Republican, son plays major role in election for a Republican....get real...

Just more sour Republican grapes

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24. you can't get there by reading his remarks

“I never was crazy about Trump,” J. Brien Comey, 86, told NorthJersey.com..."He was crazy before he became president."

Son nominated as FBI Director by Barack Obama...

That doesn't fit your caricature, not by a mile.

[BamaRefugee]

26. So you're saying

that lifelong Republicans, in Republican stronghold towns, who also held office as Republicans, voted for Clinton or other?

If you do some research, you'll see that he says he voted straight Republican ticket in 2016 "but left off Trump". Yeh. Every day, hundreds of Republicans start saying the same thing, to absolve themselves.

Why by 2020, there will only be around 300 Republicans in America who voted for Trump!

I feel totally confident in what I wrote.

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28. there are countless republicans speaking out and organizing against Trump right now

...it's stupid and shortsighted politics (for anyone actually invested in confronting Trump) to work to alienate or dismiss that opposition.

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32. CNN

Comey's father said he has never been a fan of Trump and didn't vote for him: "I think the man should be in a home quite honestly, he's crazy as a hoot."

The elder Comey, who first spoke to New Jersey's The Record about his son's firing, said he preferred Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich during the 2016 Republican presidential primary...


http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/20/politics/comey-father-trump/index.html


...why anyone opposed to Trump would spend a minute trying to make this guy the enemy.

[UTUSN]

23. "Dad, not now. Not this minute. Bad timing. Shut up, Dad." And this goes for Joe BIDEN, too.