James Comey compares Trump to mob boss in ABC interview

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• In an ABC promo, Stephanopoulos says Comey compared Trump to a mob boss.

According to the source:The Comey interview left people in the room stunned — he told George things that he’s never said before.Some described the experience as surreal.
The question will be how to fit it all into a one-hour show.
Comey answered every question.
If anyone wonders if Comey will go there, he goes there.
What's next: Comey's book, "A Higher Loyalty," is out next Tuesday. He taped the interview Monday at his Washington-area home.
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Former FBI director James Comey compared President Trump to a mob boss in a new ABC News interview that is set to air this weekend.

Comey spent five hours wih Stephanopoulos, according to Politico.

The interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, airing Sunday at 10 p.m. as part of a “20/20” special, is “going to shock the president and his team,” a source told Axios.

The interview will be followed by appearances on “The View,” CNN, MSNBC and Fox News in the coming week as Comey promotes his new book, "A Higher Loyalty,” which is out on Tuesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...s-in-abc-interview/ar-AAvM3DT?ocid=spartanntp

 

[Brushy Bill]

He'll be making all kinds of noise so that when he's arrested he can claim to be a victim of politics.

 

[ThunderCat98]

Wait. Comey hates the guy that fired him? Who would have guessed?

 

[i am herdman]

No agenda there at all.

 

[Dreh_Nagi_HC_IM]

I have more expendable income, so Mob Boss it is.

From deplorable to mobster.

Works for me, and I like it. A helluva lot.

 

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Decades before he led the F.B.I.’s investigation into whether members of Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election, Comey was a career prosecutor who helped dismantle the Gambino crime family; and he doesn’t hesitate in these pages to draw a direct analogy between the Mafia bosses he helped pack off to prison years ago and the current occupant of the Oval Office.

A February 2017 meeting in the White House with Trump and then chief of staff Reince Priebus left Comey recalling his days as a federal prosecutor facing off against the Mob: “The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.” An earlier visit to Trump Tower in January made Comey think about the New York Mafia social clubs he knew as a Manhattan prosecutor in the 1980s and 1990s — “The Ravenite. The Palma Boys. Café Giardino.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news