Comey's rebuke of Trump cuts deep
The former FBI director does more than dish on Trump’s behavior — his book offers a full-throated indictment of Trump’s character.
By MATTHEW NUSSBAUM 04/13/2018 05:24 AM EDT
Former FBI Director James Comey pillories President Donald Trump in his soon-to-be-released book, “A Higher Loyalty,” deriding him as a cruel and selfish liar who is “unethical,” “untethered to the truth” and has likely never “recoiled from causing another person pain.”
From jabs at Trump’s height to ruminating on the status of his marriage, Comey leaves little question about how he feels about the 45th President. But throughout the book, a manuscript of which was obtained by POLITICO, Comey also seeks to draw deeper lessons about leadership -- rebukes of Trump and those around him that may be lost in the headlines surrounding the book’s more startling details, like Trump’s apparent obsession with allegations concerning prostitutes in Moscow.
In those passages, though, Comey indicts not only Trump’s character but also that of many around him, and those in power who support and defend him.
Here are some of Comey’s more pointed passages that strike at the center of Trump’s worldview.
A rumination on what it means to live a good life: “Sit there, and imagine you are at the end of your life. From that vantage point, the smoke of striving for recognition and wealth is cleared. Houses, cars, awards on the wall? Who cares? You are about to die. Who do you want to have been? … I hope some of them decide to have been people who used their abilities to help those who needed it – the weak, the struggling, the frightened, the bullied. Standing for something. Making a difference. That is true wealth.”
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I believe his book will be good and I intend to read it when I finish Russian Roulette. However I have no interest in joining the parade of "Comey's Cheerleaders and Fanboys." And that's for reasons that we all know on DU, so I won't go into it.
The book will be a testimony to the things that happened in 2016 and early 2017 leading up to Comey's firing. It will be worthwhile to read it from a historic standpoint if nothing else. I'm quite certain that Cheeto will never touch this book. He hasn't read a book since his school days, and I'm not even sure if he did it then. The only understanding that Cheeto will get from Comey's book will be whatever he hears on Faux News.
Just sayin'
