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America's 2018 mid-term elections…

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« on: July 19, 2018, 12:28:24 am »


from The Washington Post…

Former FBI director Comey urges votes for Democrats this fall

In a tweet, the former Republican argued that Republicans have not provided an adequate check on the president.

By JOHN WAGNER | 7:22AM EDT — Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Former FBI director James B. Comey testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on June 8, 2017. — Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press.
Former FBI director James B. Comey testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on June 8, 2017.
 — Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press.


JAMES B. COMEY, the FBI director fired last year by President Trump, is urging voters to support Democrats in this year's congressional elections.

Comey, until recently a Republican, argued on Twitter on Tuesday night that the GOP, which controls both chambers of Congress, has failed to provide an adequate check on Trump.

“All who believe in this country's values must vote for Democrats this fall,” he wrote. “Policy differences don't matter right now. History has its eyes on us.”




Trump and Comey publicly sparred in recent months as Comey conducted a publicity tour for his book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership, a 304-page tell-all that describes Trump's presidency as a “forest fire” and portrays the president as an ego-driven congenital liar.

Trump responded by calling Comey an “untruthful slime ball” and praising his decision to dismiss him in May 2017 in an act that has been under scrutiny by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

Comey was highly critical of Trump's performance earlier this week during a joint news conference with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin at their summit in Helsinki.

At the news conference, Trump appeared to side with Putin over the U.S. intelligence community, which has concluded that Russia interfered the U.S. election in 2016.

“This was the day an American president stood on foreign soil next to a murderous lying thug and refused to back his own country,” Comey wrote afterward. “Patriots need to stand up and reject the behavior of this president.”

A Republican for most of his adult life, Comey recently said he now considers himself an independent.


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John Wagner is a national reporter who leads The Washington Post's new breaking political news team. He previously covered the Trump White House. During the 2016 presidential election, Wagner focused on the Democratic campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley. He earlier chronicled Maryland government for more than a decade, a stretch that included O’Malley's eight years as governor and part of the tenure of his Republican predecessor, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. He came to The Post from The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he served as the paper's Washington correspondent, covering the 2004 presidential bid of Senator John Edwards and the final years in office of Senator Jesse Helms.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-fbi-director-comey-urges-votes-for-democrats-this-fall/2018/07/18/7c2b7d1c-8a77-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html
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