“There was no corruption. There was no treason. There was no attempted coup,” Comey wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. “Those are lies, and dumb lies at that.
Comey said that the 2016 investigation into the Trump campaign came after a legitimate tip and was the nature of the FBI’s work.
“We didn’t know what was true,” he wrote. “Maybe there was nothing to it, or maybe Americans were actively conspiring with the Russians. To find out, the FBI would live up to its name and investigate.” Comey also pushed back against Trump’s claim that FBI agents were sympathetic to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. Trump has repeatedly pointed to former FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who exchanged messages disparaging Trump, as evidence that the agency was out to get him.
Comey echoed his familiar criticisms of the president, calling him a liar who doesn’t care about the consequences of his actions. TrumpComey in May 2017 in the hopes of stymieing investigations into his ties with Russia. That dismissal led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller — himself a former FBI director — to look into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, as well as possible obstruction of justice by the president.
“We must call out his lies that the FBI was corrupt and committed treason, that we spied on the Trump campaign, and tried to defeat Donald Trump,” Comey wrote. “We must constantly return to the stubborn facts.”
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