The former FBI director wrote an op-ed chastising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General.
Comey also implied Barr’s use of words like “no collusion” and “spying” during congressional hearings was an attempt to protect the president.
It’s a process that he saw first hand, the former FBI director wrote in the op-ed. The president’s speaking style — layered with “bold assertations, and “he rarely stops talking” — is what Comey says pulls those serving Trump “into a silent circle of assent.” “Speaking rapid-fire with no spot for others to jump into the conversation, Mr. Trump makes everyone a co-conspirator to his preferred set of facts, or delusions,” he wrote. “I have felt it — this president building with his words a web of alternative reality and busily wrapping it around all of us in the room.”
This phenomenon escalates to the point that Trump attacks “institutions and values you hold close,” Comey wrote. Still, those serving the president do not speak out, Comey says, because they feel a sense of duty to protect the American people through their service. “Of course,” Comey writes, “to stay, you must be seen as on his team, so you make further compromises. You use his language, praise his leadership, tout his commitment to values.”
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