New York Times, and the Washington Post. It was also a gift to the book business. There was, publishers found, an apparently insatiable hunger for anti-Trump screeds. One after another of these tomes hit the bestseller lists. While there were the inevitable differences among them in style and perspective, virtually all shared a single theme: Trump was not just a president whose politics the authors disliked; he was the worst person ever to hold the office, unique in his bigotry, corruption, ignorance, stupidity, egomania – indeed, in the estimation of many, comparable to Hitler. In general, the author paid very little if any attention to Trump’s actual political ideas, programs, or accomplishments; instead, their focus was on his personality and personal views, real or imagined – and, by extension, on the supposed attitudes of Trump’s supporters, whose very enthusiasm for him was treated as a character flaw and, indeed, an existential threat to American democracy, tole
Ex-FBI Chief James Comey Says He Wish He Had Stood up More to Donald Trump
On 1/23/21 at 11:10 AM EST
Ex-director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey, has rowed back on an earlier call he had made for President Joe Biden to think about pardoning Donald Trump and has also admitted that he wished he had stood up more to the former president.
Comey welcomed the impeachment of the former president whom he believed should be convicted on the article of inciting his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol because it would be an important accountability measure.
However, when asked whether he still held the opinion he gave earlier this month that Biden should consider issuing a pardon to allow the country to move forward, Comey said: I think it is a close question.
Tue 19 Jan 2021 01.00 EST
As an investigator turned author, James Comey has developed a forensic eye for detail. The colour of the curtains in the Oval Office. The length of Donald Trumpâs tie. Something about the US president that the camera often misses.
âDonald Trump conveys a menace, a meanness in private that is not evident in most public views of him,â says Comey, a former director of the FBI, from his home in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC.
That menace came flooding out to engulf the US on 6 January when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol in Washington. Five people, including a police officer, were killed in the mayhem. Comey, whose unorthodox interventions in the 2016 election are blamed by many liberals for putting Trump in the White House, watched in horror.