Trump’s desperate lies disprove themselves - Opinion - The Times-Tribune
Trump’s desperate lies disprove themselves
By James B. Comey / Published: June 1, 2019
FILe - In this June 8, 2017 file photo, former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Comeyâ€šÃ„Ã´s publisher is moving up the release date of his memoir â€šÃ„ÃºA Higher Loyalty,â€šÃ„Ã¹ to April 17. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
But we shouldn’t, because millions of good people believe what a president of the United States says. In normal times, that’s healthy. But not now, when the president is a liar who doesn’t care what damage he does to vital institutions. 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. We constantly must return to the stubborn facts.
But when we finally learned of it in late July, what should the FBI have done? Let it go? Go tell the Trump campaign? Tell the press? No. Investigate, to see what the facts were. We didn’t know what was true. Maybe there was nothing to it, or maybe Americans actively were conspiring with the Russians. To find out, the FBI would live up to its name and investigate.
Trump’s desperate lies disprove themselves - Opinion - The Times-Tribune
Trump’s desperate lies disprove themselves
By James B. Comey / Published: June 1, 2019
FILe - In this June 8, 2017 file photo, former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Comeyâ€šÃ„Ã´s publisher is moving up the release date of his memoir â€šÃ„ÃºA Higher Loyalty,â€šÃ„Ã¹ to April 17. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
But we shouldn’t, because millions of good people believe what a president of the United States says. In normal times, that’s healthy. But not now, when the president
 is a liar who doesn’t care what damage he does to vital institutions. 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. We constantly must return to the stubborn facts.
But when we finally learned of it in late July, what should the FBI have done? Let it go? Go tell the Trump campaign? Tell the press? No. Investigate, to see what the facts were. We didn’t know what was true. Maybe there was nothing to it, or maybe Americans actively were conspiring with the Russians. To find out, the FBI would live up to its name and investigate.