Fired FBI director James Comey’s father pounced on Trump after the president called his son a “nutjob” days after firing him.
Fired FBI director James Comey’s father pounced on President Trump after the commander-in-chief called his son a “ nutjob ” days after firing him.
“I was never crazy about Trump, ” J. Brien Comey, 86, told The Bergen Record. “I’ m convinced that he’s nuts. I thought he belonged in an institution.»
Comey’s father, a lifelong Republican, said his long-felt opposition to the President has recently intensified. «He was crazy before he became President. Now he’s really crazy, ” he told the paper.
The former Allendale councilman unleashed on Trump after The New York Times reported on a leaked White House memo describing an Oval Office meeting with Russian officials following the younger Comey’s ouster.
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Trump, according to the document, referred to the former FBI director as “crazy” and “a real nutjob.”
“I faced great pressure because of Russia, ” the White House memo quotes Trump as saying. “That’s taken off.”
The White House said Comey’s firing was unrelated to the FBI’s Russia investigation, but officials didn’ t deny that Trump had been critical of Comey to Russian officials.
The elder Comey said that despite voting down the Republican line in the November 2016 election, he refrained from voting for any presidential candidate. “I just couldn’ t vote for Trump, ” he told The Bergen Record.
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Comey’s father said his son never told him he had been fired by the President. Instead, he learned of his son’s axing through media reports.
“He and I have an unwritten secret agreement that I don’ t talk about his job, ” J. Brien Comey said. “It’s just a father-son relationship. We never talk about what he does. I read it in the papers.”
Republicans criticized Comey last July when he announced that he would not recommend charges for Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while secretary of state.
Then, in late October — with the election looming — Comey announced in a bombshell memo that his agency would reopen its Clinton probe.
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Democrats blasted Comey for his decision and accused him of contributing to Trump’s narrow victory over Clinton.
Comey has agreed to testify publicly before the Senate Intelligence Committee after Memorial Day.
