Comey furious at lack of respect White House showed, sources say

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Source: ABC News

By PIERRE THOMAS, JACK DATE, TOM KUTSCH
May 12, 2017, 10:05 AM ET

Former FBI Director James Comey was furious at the lack of respect the White House showed him in the way he was fired, sources have told ABC News.

Associates say he is simmering at some of the comments directed at him by White House staffers, who have used words like "atrocities" to describe his actions as director. One person close to the former director said that President Trump calling Comey a "showboat" and suggesting he is not "competent" has required Comey to show considerable restraint.

"Look, he's a showboat. He's a grandstander," Trump said about Comey in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt on Thursday. "The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that. I know that. Everybody knows that."

A source said they expect that at some point Comey will respond to Trump -- but it is uncertain when that would be. For now, Comey has taken a few days to gather himself, particularly given how caught off guard he was by the timing of the firing.

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Comey was taken aback by Trump request for loyalty pledge

By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent

Updated 12:29 PM ET, Fri May 12, 2017

Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey was "taken aback" by President Donald Trump's request for a personal assurance or pledge of loyalty at a dinner shortly after he took office, a source close to Comey told CNN Friday.

Comey refused to do so, saying he could not provide such a pledge -- those who work at the FBI pledge their loyalty to the US Constitution, not to any individual person -- but he promised to always be honest with the President.

Trump then asked if Comey would pledge "honest loyalty," to which the FBI director agreed. The source said the term "honest loyalty" doesn't necessarily mean anything.

The late January dinner was arranged at Trump's request, the source added.
A description of the dinner and conversation was first reported Thursday night by The New York Times, although CNN had previously reported Comey's refusal to give Trump any assurance of personal loyalty.

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[ffr]

1. Well Comey. What are you going to do about it?

[narnian60]

32. Yes.

[berksdem]

49. get your popcorn ready!

[adigal]

58. His good friend is talking. He said Comey was invited to the White House

and that Comey never asked for his job.
More to come.

[dixiegrrrrl]

72. That public hearing is coming up, for one thing.

He said he wants to testify publicly.

Plus, no way can I believe he is not quietly talking to FBI friends.
and rumors are getting stronger about sealed indictments.

[delisen]

2. Considerable irony in Comey being taken by surprise.

[HopeAgain]

5. True, true... nt

[Alice11111]

50. Yes, it makes.me mildly naueus.

I remember Hillary stepping off the plane and reporters shouting to her questions about anothet email dump, that the FBI was going through. The cell phones were disabled in the plane, so she had to hear of it for the first time, as well as be asked to respond, about something she really didn't understand at the moment. There was no sympathy for her. Oh, yeah, few people, especially RW, get mildly naueus when a woman is exposed and embarrassed.

[Cha]

59. Yeah, it's a ******.. he didn't know fuckhead well

at all.

[dalton99a]

3. Comey's supporters in the bureau will avenge for him

[Alice11111]

51. ...but they are mostly Repubs, and many are RW. I hope

You are right though.

[tinrobot]

55. They are FBI first. Party comes second.

They take threats to the organization VERY seriously. They're not going to let go of this.

[Alice11111]

68. It didn't work that way for Hillary. The RW in the FBI was

going to shitcan her, with or without Comey...the Guillani contingent.
According to Comey, that was one reason he came out himself, rather than waiting for it to leak.

[CrispyQ]

4. I hope the entire organization is furious & out for JUSTICE. -nt

[Moostache]

14. As long as that "justice" includes a perp walk out of the oval, I'm down... (n/t)

[BeyondGeography]

6. I'm sure Trump has elicited a few Lordy's from Mr. Boy Scout

Lordy, Lordy, Lordy.

[klook]

30. Comey is probably feeling "slightly nauseous."

Hope he will have the motivation and ability to help salvage his reputation.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Comey knows a lot of bad things about SCROTUS.

Let's not forget, Deep Throat was the Associate Director of the FBI, and his leaking of Watergate investigation info to Bob Woodward was motivated in part by having been passed over for Director in favor of Patrick Gray, a Nixon stooge. I'm not necessarily saying that Comey would leak, too, but he knows things.

I was going to say that Comey should stay out of small planes, but he's 6'8" so he's not going to be getting in them in the first place.

[CrispyQ]

20. I had no idea he was that tall! -nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. He is, indeed, very tall.

Which might be another thing about him that bugs Trump. Comey towers over him, which can't be comfortable for a guy as dominance-obsessed as Dolt 45.

[maddiemom]

63. I had exactly the same thought.

Photos of Trump looking down at his feet while with Angela Merkel showed he was wearing LIFTS. I was amazed, knowing he is supposedly over 6 feet. I later read that he DOES wear them because he likes to tower over people.

[PatSeg]

24. I started noticing it awhile back

He is astonishingly tall, almost a giant!

[irisblue]

39. and the size of Comeys hands compared to trump when the shook hands in public.

[PatSeg]

41. No wonder Trump

had to get rid of him

[LuckyLib]

62. And he's clearly smart, attractive, and well-spoken. Everything dRump is not.

Must drive him nuts.

[heaven05]

8. ya think????

he has fleas, he should blame it on his boss, errrr, ex-boss.....to hell with treasonous ass comey...he got what he deserved, being thrown under the bus after his usefulness was over.....glad it happened to this trump chump.

[maddiemom]

64. Definitely some real irony there.

[TexasTowelie]

9. Karma would be sweet

if they were bunkmates in the same prison cell so that they could resolve their differences.

[TeapotInATempest]

10. I wonder if Comey can sue for slander?

It seems unlikely he could (but maybe if Trump "opens up the libel laws", ahem).

[TNLib]

11. He also just threatened him on twitter

Either the FBI is about to take trump out and he's lashing out or Trump is crazier than I thought.

[GusBob]

12. At present, keeping his cards close to his vest is wise

Its got to be hard to hold your tongue ( "atrocities" WTF?) but Trump is doing a great job of hanging himself with his own tongue.

Comey knows exactly what do, and the Trumpsters have no idea what they are doing

Easy as pie

[Cognitive_Resonance]

13. Revenge is a dish best served cold. n/t

[BootinUp]

16. Yep.

[Jarqui]

15. I cannot be entirely sympathetic to Comey

He had a hand in where he finds himself today.

He thought the public deserved to know about finding more of Hillary's emails that led to him not making any charges but he didn't think the American people deserved to know how Putin was helping the Donald - an issue that concerned him enough to request more resources recently.

I'm not defending Trump. He was over the top as usual and blatantly broke the law in my opinion with his actions of the past few days. It's looking more and more like he'll eventually get what is coming to him.

[groundloop]

19. If anything Pres. Obama should have fired Comey for interfering in the election

45*'s handling of this is extremely suspect. I'm beginning to believe the theories that say Comey felt that Hillary would be elected despite him releasing that one last email memo which handed the election to 45*, but I have zero sympathy for him. Whether he was under extreme pressure from repubs or not he chose to release that bullshit memo and sit on the fact that 45* was under investigation.

I am, however, very intrigued by the way that 45* handled this. It certainly makes him appear (yet again) guilty as hell of both colluding with Russia as well as bumbling attempts at a cover-up.

[Jarqui]

23. I wonder about Obama doing that.

If he had, the GOP would have screamed partisan decision. Then they would have replaced whoever Obama put in or the acting Director with someone else - from the far right. That much is a given.

But that new director probably would get a free pass as the new kid on the block. And if he/she was anything like Sessions, could do so while suppressing the Russian investigation and maintaining "there's nothing there". It would be a much more difficult position for the media or Dems to attack.

If Obama had fired Comey, Trump might have got away with this stuff.

I still think the world of Obama. But I did not agree with him on absolutely everything. This decision on Comey & Russia is one I questioned. But I'm having second thoughts.

[tbbnf]

17. And he should know what a lack of respect is in

The way he treated Clinton and our democracy....Karma

[StevieM]

69. Agreed. Comey is no hero and Democrats need to remember that. (eom)

[Paladin]

18. Don't like how trump is treating you, Comey?

Then FUCKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Take him down! Not just because of your own wounded feelings, but for the sake of a whole suffering nation. If you and your FBI allies don't do it, then who the hell will?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. He might, but he won't be obvious about it.

Whatever gripes one might have about Comey, one true thing about him is that he's smart and knows exactly how the whole system works. If he decides to do something about Trump he will do it carefully and subtlely.

[Amaryllis]

25. Last night on MSNBC - don't remember who- said Comey also is expert at workign with the media,

and the opposite is true of the WH.

[DURHAM D]

26. Guess he now understands how Hillary felt

when he disrespected her.




















nah...he is still an ass

[still_one]

27. Well gee, when the AG told you not to send that letter to Congress 11 days before the

election, you sure didn't show much respect, so looks like what comes around goes around

[ucrdem]

48. Bingo.

[world wide wally]

28. Then DO SOMETHING about it

[Gothmog]

29. Comey is pond scum and lacks any professional or other ethics

karma can be fun

[SleeplessinSoCal]

35. Could not disagree more. He's more like the hardest working Eagle Scout.

Watch his 2007 testimony over Ashcroft hospitalization incident with Gonzalez and Card.

[ucrdem]

47. Maybe he just didn't like Gonzalez.

He didn't like the Clintons either.

[marlakay]

66. He worked on the Whitewater case

And I heard he kept quiet about Hillary's emails until he saw her husband talking to Attorney General that day at the airport.

I always thought that was a huge mistake of Bill's no matter what he said or how innocent the conversation was, it looked bad.

I personally think he thought she would win but he wanted to take her down a few pegs before she became president and let her know she was still held to high standard. I really don't think he thought Don would win, I think he thought like the rest of us, surely the american people aren't going to vote in this stupid baboon.

Of course I think he should have kept his mouth shut before the election but he didn't have enough evidence on Trump yet so kept quiet about it, I think giving him rope to hang himself and thinking Hillary was going to win anyway. Didn't happen but thats what I think he thought would from all I have heard and read.

[Chakaconcarne]

31. Keep it up Donald... and don't be surprised when it bites you in the ass.

Is it that he can be so brazen because he knows Putin has his back?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

33. tRump thinks he's a Mafia Don. He virtually is one. Is that owing the popularity of "The Godfather"?

Still trying to understand his appeal....

[Solly Mack]

34. Seriously? Someone is shocked that Trump has no respect for anyone?

Who did he think he was working for?

I'm wounded the asp bit me!

[muntrv]

36. 2 words: Mark Felt.

[StevieM]

70. Interesting comparison. Felt did some bad things, but ultimately helped to expose Nixon.

Comey is similar but his wrongdoings are far worse.

[StevieM]

37. Well, isn't that ironic? Comey may not be as bad as Trump or Chaffetz but his actions have

been pretty insane in their own right.

[Honeycombe8]

38. He's a good public employee who is being trashed publicly. Trump is TRYING to ruin Comey's career...

and personal life.

Trump historically does this when he gets PERSONALLY ANGRY at someone. Rosie O'Donnell, the beauty queen who publicly endorsed HRC, the senator who wasn't going to "back the blue" (even the police officers were taken aback by Trump's pledge to ruin the senator's career if he doesn't back the blue), Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama (who made Trump angry by being more POPULAR than Trump, as well as smarter and more experienced)....and now Comey.

I hope Comey's phone is ringing off the wall with offers of high paying jobs. (I suspect prospective employers are waiting until the drama is over...Comey would not be able to totally focus on a new job at this time, but I still hope they are contacting him for possible future employment.)

[MrsMatt]

71. Agree

I've been on twitter and the consensus amongst the conservative and liberal factions is that he's a white hat.

I like to get a balanced view of things so I look for both conservative and liberal viewpoints and decide then if the idea is credible.

I tend to believe Comey is a white hat; albeit a bit dingy.

[QC]

40. Remember, Deep Throat was an FBI guy,

the deputy director, in fact, one Mark Felt.

[Sunlei]

42. more interviews Comey, get everything on the record about all Republican party 'contacts'

over the past year or so.

[Happyhippychick]

43. This is a fight where I wish both of them would beat the shit out of each other and both end up

incapacitated.

[SHRED]

44. Two insane people pummeling themselves

Grab the popcorn..."oh lordy".

[SHRED]

45. "Oh lordy"

[zentrum]

46. "Honest loyalty".

I think those are weasel words of having it both ways on Comey's part.

On Trump's part, I think it was a way of trapping Comey on tape.

Which, when it appears with the words "honest loyalty" will screw Comey.

I don't like that Comey described these words only after it emerged Trump had a tape.

[Thomas Hurt]

52. AFAIK he is testifying next week...

He just goes in offers to be put under oath, if that is not a given, and lays it all out.

[randr]

53. Lester Holt is as much as any one in the MSM to blame

When the lsos is allowed to spew "You know that. I know that. Everybody knows that" without rebuttal he has gotten away with a lie.
Sending his private goon to deliver what he had no nerve to deliver in any appropriate manner speaks volumes.

[Cha]

61. Exaclty.. damn traitorous stenos

[elmac]

54. I have zero respect for Comey

or care that his feelings are hurt. He got the orange baboon elected. With that said, tRump will turn on anyone who doesn't completely kiss his ass, that is why fascist congressmen are afraid of him. He can break laws, hell, he could even go out and shoot someone and his fascist sheep would support him.

[pansypoo53219]

56. turnip's description + insults are ALAWYS exactly description of himself.

what did comey expect. thanks for getting this idiot elected.

[mahina]

57. Who exactly is a showboat and a grandstander please?

Give me a break. Why doesn't he call Comey and orange faced sexual predator dimwit with no grounding in right and wrong, lacking the capacity of language and thought while he's at it?

[Cha]

60. "Look, he's a showboat. He's a grandstander".. trump..

Look who's talking.. the fucking mad wannabe king

[mr_lebowski]

65. What Comey did to Hillary was nowhere near as bad as people here make it out ...

1) Comey never SAID 'I'm reopening the investigation', he said 'we're reviewing emails we found on Weiners computer that MIGHT have relevance to the investigation'.
2) HE didn't PUBLICLY release any 'memo', the memo was to a few Congress people, and it was the GOPpers who 'released it', and the f***ing Corporate Media who blew up the story ... and then got it nearly all completely WRONG. TO this friggin' DAY even outlets like WaPo still say 'Comey reopened the investigation' ... WRONG. That didn't happen.
3) Comey was obliged, under oath, to report to Congress immediately if any addt'l potentially relevant emails were discovered. For all he knew, Congresspeople could've already heard about this cache of emails (there's certainly many RW FBI agents, ergo some who would've been aware of the emails might've leaked them to Congress themselves if Comey decided not to), so there was no way he could just sit on the discovery without risking looking VERY sketchy and maybe even breaking the law.
4) The Drumpf investigation is totally different because it was not public, and it was 'still ongoing', both are conditions are unlike the Hillary Email situation. It would've been WRONG for him to bring it up publicly.

I know we all wanna blame SOMEONE, but it was the ASSHOLE GOPPERS in Congress that ran straight to the media, and then the media getting the fucking STORY WRONG, and blowing it completely out of proportion ... that are the real assholes here.

I don't blame Comey for his decisions in the situation at all. Yeah, I was pissed at first, but I'd come to understand long before this point ... the dude didn't have any choice but to respond the way he did.

[Juliusseizure]

67. Disagree

1) He reopened the investigation. He didn't need to say it explicitly. He admitted as such in testimony.

2) An open letter to congress not held confidential (as protocal required during an investigation) is, of course, available to the media, and mass publication completely foreseeable. Writing to news outlets makes no sense.

3) Not publicly!

4) The F.B.I. is not supposed to talk open letters to congress publicly about any of its ongoing investigations. Here he made it public 11 days before an election completely against protocol, unnecessarily, and with a massive risk of effecting a national election.

5) The letter was a follow up to his July 5th debacle in which he gave an unprecedented press conference without consulting with DOJ, wildly exaggerated the "thousands" of emails found on Weiner's laptop, neglected to mention none were labled classified and were sent to government officials, not third parties, then the topper - gave an opinion about Clinton's reckless conduct when his sole job was to investigate and provide the info. to DOJ to determine whether to indict.

Under normal circumstances, Comey is at best incompetent and confused about hos role, at worst a partisan hack who knew full well the consequences of his actions.

Its only in comparison to the third world dictatorship and Brownshirt cronies of the Republican junta that he holds a semblance of honor and integrity.