In usual fashion, the former FBI director responded to
a barrage of insults from the president with a subtle subtweet.
Politico
The Very Political James Comey
James Comey is no
stranger to the subtweet. The former FBI director has been known to
fire off historical quotes seemingly directed at President Donald Trump, and
Saturday was no exception.
Comey, who has
a contentious relationship with the man who fired him, to say the least,
appeared to respond to Trump’s Saturday-morning tweet storm calling Comey a
“total sleaze” and a “crooked cop.”
“I ask you to
judge me by the enemies I have made,” Comey tweeted, quoting former President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” — FDR— James Comey (@Comey) January 12, 2019
The message made no references to
Trump’s half-dozen angry tweets.
The president’s
rant touched on everything from special counsel Robert Mueller to Hillary
Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. Trump was responding to a New York Times report Friday night that said the FBI
opened up an inquiry into the president’s possible loyalties to Russia after he
fired Comey in May 2017.
Although Trump
claimed at the time he fired Comey over his handling of the Clinton email
investigation in 2016, the president’s later statements suggested it had to do
with Comey’s oversight of the investigation into Russian meddling in the
election.
Trump didn’t
deny the new report’s accuracy and instead took issue with the FBI and Comey.
Wow, just learned in the Failing New York Times that the corrupt former leaders of the FBI, almost all fired or forced to leave the agency for some very bad reasons, opened up an investigation on me, for no reason & with no proof, after I fired Lyin’ James Comey, a total sleaze!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2019
Since he was
fired, Comey has become a vocal critic of Trump both on Twitter and in
print, with his 2018 memoir A Higher Loyalty questioning
the president’s decisions surrounding Russia.
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