{"id":11809,"date":"2019-05-06T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11809"},"modified":"2019-05-06T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:08:18","slug":"the-fright-of-james-comey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fright-of-james-comey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fright of James Comey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/01\/opinion\/william-barr-testimony.html\">&nbsp;recent op-ed<\/a>, fired FBI Director James Comey was back again preaching to the nation about the dangers of Donald Trump and his capacity to corrupt any top-ranking federal official of lower character than Comey\u2019s own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comey seems to have become utterly unhinged by Donald Trump, especially when the president, in his thick Queens accent, scoffs in the vernacular\u2014quite accurately, given the transgressions of the FBI hierarchy\u2014about \u201ccrooked cops.\u201d What an affront to Comey\u2019s complexity, his subtlety, his sophistication, his feigned Hamlet-like self-doubt\u2014at least as now expressed in his latest incarnation as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Comey\/status\/1109930531389472768\">Twitter\u2019s Kahlil Gibran<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One can say a number of things about the timing of Comey\u2019s latest sermon and his characteristic projection of his own sins on to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, Comey\u2019s unprofessionalism was home-grown and certainly did not need any help from President Trump. His schizophrenic behavior both as a prosecutor and investigator in the Hillary Clinton email matter was marked by exempting Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin from indictment, despite their lying to his own federal officials about their knowledge of a private Clinton email server. Comey wrote his summation of the Clinton email investigation before he had even interviewed the former secretary of state. He was hardly independent from a recused Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the Clinton email investigation. As her rubbery courier he bent to her directives on all key decisions that led to de facto exoneration of likely next president Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/05\/05\/the-fright-of-james-comey\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In a&nbsp;recent op-ed, fired FBI Director James Comey was back again preaching to the nation about the dangers of Donald Trump and his capacity to corrupt any top-ranking federal official of lower character than Comey\u2019s own. Comey seems to have become utterly unhinged by Donald Trump, especially when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1171,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-34t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10165,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/comeys-overdue-departure\/","url_meta":{"origin":11809,"position":0},"title":"Comey\u2019s Overdue Departure","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Corner The one and only. \u00a0by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review If a FBI director is doing his job, we probably should neither see nor hear of him much on television. 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In a single appearance, Comey, on 245 separate occasions, while under oath, stonewalled questions with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;James Comey&quot;","block_context":{"text":"James Comey","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/james-comey\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10592,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/beware-of-narratives-and-misinformation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11809,"position":2},"title":"Beware of Narratives and Misinformation","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 Narratives surrounding the DNC hack & Antifa reveal media bias and government bureaucracy at their worst. \u00a0 U.S. intelligence agencies said Russia was responsible for hacking Democratic National Committee e-mail accounts, leading to the publication of about 20,000 stolen e-mails on WikiLeaks. \u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comey&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comey","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/comey\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11181,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/5-09-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":11809,"position":3},"title":"5-09-18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Wow. You are a moron. How is it, that Comey\u2019s memos, which were his that he wrote, as an FBI agent, which were still his, once he was fired from his FBI job, by an obstructing president, \u201cleaking of classified material\u201d?? 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