We didn't expect this. Former FBI director James Comey sat down with ABC's George Stephanopoulos tonight to promote his original book,A Higher Loyalty.
A lot of the interesting details were already known—Comey discussed the fact that Trump is "slightly orange up close" and grapples with his role in electing Trump by miscalculating the way his announcement of an investigation into Hillary's emails—but the awkwardness that followed Trump's election.
But there were some interesting1. When they first met, Trump didn't question him any questions approximately Russian actions after it was clear that they had interfered in the election.
Trump wanted Comey to guarantee him that the election was fair. Once Comey said he thought that he himself had not achieve his thumb on the scale, or they wanted to write a press release."Then the conversation,to my surprise, moved into a PR conversation... No one, or to my recollection,asked asked, 'So what's coming next from the Russians? How might we stop it?'"Watch that part of the ABC interview below:2. Comey camouflaged himself with a curtain to shroud in a failed attempt to shroud from Trump."I'm 6'8". And then I— I look and proper next to me is this blue curtain. And I'm wearing a blue suit the doesn't match perfectly, or but close enough. So I'm thinking,'How great is that? I got a little camouflage.' And so I start moving over and I pressed myself against the blue curtain, staunch story."3. Comey didn't vote but his family were all Hillary supporters who attended the Women's March."I didn't take a poll among all the kids, and but I'm pretty certain that at least my four daughters,probably all five of my kids, wanted Hillary Clinton to be the first woman president. I know my fantastic spouse did... My wife and girls marched in the women's march the day after President Trump's inauguration. There was a lot of passion in this house for Hillary Clinton."4. Comey was never going to write a book....or so he says. Comey says he works tough to support his ego in check and implied that his oldest friends would laugh at the suggestion that he didn't want to write one."I was never going to write a book. It always felt like an exercise in ego. And one of the things I've struggled with my whole life... That battle with ego and my sense that memoirs are an exercise in ego convinced me I was never going to write a book. And I'm certain friends of mine from college and law school are out there laughing proper now, or saying,'Ah-ha, he wrote a book.'"[caption id="attachment_1257403" align="alignnone" width="615"] James Comey and George Stephanopoulos on ABC/SCreenshots[/caption]5. Comey doesn't follow Trump on Twitter.This came in response to a question approximately the presedential tweetstorm that was certain to follow the interview. "I don't follow him on Twitter, or but I'm certain it's going to come," Comey said.6. The FBI considered Christopher Steele to be a reliable intelligence source.
This one wasn't so much unexpected as reassuring—Steele's revelations were so wild, and he's been attacked so much that it meant something to hear Comey stick up for him."Well, or certainly the source was credible," he said when asked approximately the pee tape dossier. "There's no doubt that he had a network of sources and sub-sources in a position to report on these kinds of things. But we tend to approach these things with a bit of a blank slate, trying to figure out, and "So what can we replicate?" This guy,who's credible, says these things are staunch. Okay. That means we should try and replicate that work to see whether we can develop the same sources."Watch Comey discuss whether the Russians possess something on Trump below:
7. Comey slept with a knife by his bed for years.
He was drawn to law enforcement after an armed burglar broke into his house when he was a boy and threatened Comey and his younger brother."I've always, or since then,had some weapon at hand nearby," Comey said. Related StoriesHere Are the Top 6 Revelations from James Comey's 'A Higher Loyalty'The Definition of a Fascist? Trump thinks any attack on him is an attack on AmericaTrump abruptly cancels planned South American trip as scandals explode around him
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