Comey: GOP has left me and many others and become party of Trump

[riversedge]

Source: The Hill




By Rebecca Savransky - 04/18/18 09:00 AM EDT


Former FBI Director James Comey in a new interview railed against the Republican Party, saying he thinks the GOP has lost its way.

"The Republican Party has left me and many others," Comey, who was a registered Republican for most of his life, said during an interview on the ABC News podcast "Start Here" when asked whether he still considers himself a Republican in his "heart of hearts."

"I just think they've lost their way and I can't be associated with it."

Comey said he saw the change in the party take place starting with President Trump's campaign. He said the GOP has continued to change over the course of the Trump presidency.

"These people don't represent anything that I believe in," he said.

He added that he thinks the Republican Party now reflects "entirely Donald Trump's values."

"It doesn't reflect values at all. It's transactional, it's ego-driven, it's in service to his ego," Comey said.....................................

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/383700-comey-gop-has-left-me-and-many-others-and-become-party-of-trump

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Wise choice.

Link to tweet

[shanny]

1. He's late to the party. nt

[DURHAM D]

2. Oh please...

they lost their way with Reagan. Comey enjoyed the white male privilege ride he was on until he fell off his horse while trying to destroy a woman. F him.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Tomorrow he's going to announce that water is wet.

And the GOP has always been like this. It's just that before Trump they did a better job of using their inside voice.

[Solly Mack]

4. Snort

Oh, no, of course not. The GOP was the party of all things good before Trump.

LMAO

As if.

[Tatiana]

5. But he was still a strong Republican in 2016.

And behaved like one, too.

He's the first one that made this political.

I will not buy his book and I'm waiting for his apology to the American public. His poor judgment cost the world.

[StevieM]

6. Comey's Republicanism delivered the White House to Donald Trump. (eom)

[sandensea]

7. And the party of Limpball before that

They ceased being a mainstream party after the 1992 election; it's just that no one has any reasonable room for doubt anymore.

[orleans]

8. interview with colbert

about 22 minutes in: comey tries to explain what he did 11 days before election, saying he had two choices: speaking would be really bad, concealing would be catastrophic

about 23 minutes in: colbert points out comey was weighing that it was a certainty that it was really bad now (to release news 11 days before election) with "maybe people will be upset later"

brilliant.

maybe this is the wrong thread to add this (we'll call it an aside)

as for the republican party & comey

WAHHHHHHHH

[SergeStorms]

9. When Comey talks about showing an example of someone ethical.....

he's not talking about himself, is he? Because what he said about Hillary a few days before the election was not said by someone who was ethical. That was something said by a partisan hack to ensure a fellow Republican won the Presidential election.

So fuck you, and the elephant you rode in on, Comey.

[blue-wave]

10. Hey Jimmy!!!

You're about 40 years too late to realize that the repukes are bat shit crazy. This happened during the Ronnie Raygun years, when they married themselves to the reich wing christian fundies. I am glad your light bulb finally started flickering.