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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts) Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:14 PM Apr 2018

This is not some tin-pot dictatorship: Comey pushes back against Trumps suggestion he be jailed

ormer FBI director James B. Comey is pushing back against President Trump’s suggestion that he should be jailed, saying in a new interview that Trump’s pronouncements on Twitter pose a “great danger.”

“This is not some tin-pot dictatorship where the leader of the country gets to say, ‘The people I don't like go to jail,’” Comey told NPR in the latest in a series of interviews to promote his new book.

In tweets Sunday and Monday, Trump alleged, without citing evidence, that Comey had committed “many crimes” and deserves to be jail for leaking classified information and lying to Congress — allegations Comey denies.

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Comey, who was fired by Trump last year, told NPR that he doesn’t follow Trump on Twitter but sees some of his tweets.

“The president of the United States just said that a private citizen should be jailed,” Comey said. “And I think the reaction of most of us was, ‘Meh, that's another one of those things.’ This is not normal. This is not okay. There's a danger that we will become numb to it, and we will stop noticing the threats to our norms.”

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This is not some tin-pot dictatorship: Comey pushes back against Trumps suggestion he be jailed (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2018 OP

Yeah, maybe he should have been spouting that line during the 2016 campaign LisaM Apr 2018 #1

I think the boy scout was busy earning his 'R' merit badge at the time, -nt poboy2 Apr 2018 #2

Yep - he gave that 'crooked Hilllary' shit a pass n/t malaise Apr 2018 #3

Weird how it became personal to Comey when it was directed at him personally gratuitous Apr 2018 #5

Comey is just pathetic. He doesn't care that Trump has comradebillyboy Apr 2018 #4

Hey Comey, you had no problems with virtually every repug chanting "lock her up" did you? lunamagica Apr 2018 #6

So trump should shut his stupid mouth mountain grammy Apr 2018 #7

LisaM

(27,815 posts)

1. Yeah, maybe he should have been spouting that line during the 2016 campaign

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:17 PM

Apr 2018

and after Trump threatened to jail Hillary during the course of a debate. That reckless rhetoric was not, in my opinion, examined enough during the election season.

poboy2

(2,078 posts)

2. I think the boy scout was busy earning his 'R' merit badge at the time, -nt

Reply to LisaM (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:20 PM

Apr 2018

malaise

(269,063 posts)

3. Yep - he gave that 'crooked Hilllary' shit a pass n/t

Reply to LisaM (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:22 PM

Apr 2018

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

5. Weird how it became personal to Comey when it was directed at him personally

Reply to LisaM (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:34 PM

Apr 2018

I mean, he's right, that the President of the United States shouldn't be making public statements about unsupported allegations of criminal wrongdoing, but he's a bit late to this party for some reason.

In any case, Comey is also right that the popular media should be calling the White House to account for the president's reckless behavior. Is this going to result at long last in a change in how the media cover this out-of-control petty little man?

comradebillyboy

(10,155 posts)

4. Comey is just pathetic. He doesn't care that Trump has

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:29 PM

Apr 2018

been calling for the jailing of his rivals for years now, but when he calls for Comey to be jailed Comey cries foul. Comey really is a self serving POS.

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)

6. Hey Comey, you had no problems with virtually every repug chanting "lock her up" did you?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:49 PM

Apr 2018

Hypocrite

mountain grammy

(26,626 posts)

7. So trump should shut his stupid mouth

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:52 PM

Apr 2018

and go ahead and order Comey's arrest... Just do it, donnie. Let's see the reaction from the rethugs in Congress.. does the G in GOP stand for Gestapo? Time to find out..

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