James Comey Mocks Trump’s Twitter Attacks Against Him: ‘I’m Like a Breakup He Can’t Get Over’
Former FBI Director James Comey dismissed the tweets made by President Trump in recent days since launching his book tour.
After Comey’s first televised interview since being fired last year, Trump blasted Comey, calling him an “untruthful slime ball.”
James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
….untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
Appearing on The Late Show, Comey didn’t seem to care about what the president had to say.
“He’s probably tweeted me 50 times, I’ve been gone for a year,” Comey responded. “I’m like a breakup he can’t get over.”
“Wow,” Stephen Colbert grinned. “He needs to move on, huh?”
Comey clarified that his reaction is “a shrug.”
“My first reaction to those kinds of tweets is a shrug, ‘Oh, there he goes again.’ But actually I caught myself and I said, ‘Wait a minute. If I’m shrugging, are the rest of the country shrugging? And does that mean we’ve become numb to this?’ It’s not okay for the President of the United States to say a private citizen should be in jail. It’s not normal. It’s not acceptable. It’s not okay. But it’s happened so much, there’s a danger we’re now numb to it, and the norm has been destroyed. And I feel that norm destroying in my own shrug. So we can’t allow that to happen. We have to talk about it and call it out. It’s not okay.”
Watch the clip above, via CBS.
