Hitting Below the Belt: Comey’s Jabs at Trump
Former FBI Director James Comey’s longawaited and much-anticipated memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” has finally been released. It’s full of petty potshots and score-settling smears (“Lies & the FBI,” Stephen L. Carter, PostOpinion, April 20).
Not surprisingly, the liberal, anti-Trump media are bending over backwards to help Comey promote his book, giving him as wide a berth as possible to accommodate his salacious observations, and possibly even relaxing journalistic standards to ensure that Comey can gleefully inflict maximum damage on Trump.
There is an unsettling tawdriness to this spectacle. It is well-known that Comey stands a towering 6-foot-8. In his book, however, he comes across as a man of far smaller stature. Michael DiStefano Jamestown, RI
I worked for the government in the mid-’60s in the Washington, DC, area.
One of the first forms to be filled out and signed upon entering government service stated something to the effect of: “I will not write a book about my job.” Isn’t there any provision today that applies to Comey? Elizabeth D’Angelo Bayonne, NJ.
Comey’s personal attacks against President Trump in his interview with George Stephanopoulos not only confirm Trump’s justification for firing him but also reveal how the highly respected FBI was corrupted under the Obama administration.
Perhaps most telling is Comey stating he decided to go public with the FBI’s reopened investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server because he believed she would be elected president.
Such political considerations have no place in law enforcement if the rule of law is to be applied equally to all Americans. Jack Coughlin Deer Park
To inject personal feelings and politics into any case, as Comey did, is despicable. Bill Westfield Kerhonkson
If Donald “The Masher” Trump and Jimmy “Wild Man” Comey were boxers, they would both be heavily penalized for hitting below the belt. Kenneth Zimmerman Huntington Beach, Calif.