Author: David Choi / Source: Business Insider
- White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders accused former FBI director James Comey of “tremendous corruption” in a blistering statement released Monday.
- Sanders’ comments follows Comey’s roughly six-hour, closed-door interview with the House Judiciary and Oversight committee, which took place earlier in the day.
- Comey criticized Republican lawmakers for not standing up to President Donald Trump’s treatment of the FBI.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders accused former FBI director James Comey of “tremendous corruption” in a blistering statement after he criticized Republican lawmakers for not standing up to President Donald Trump’s treatment of the FBI.
“Republicans should stand up to Comey and his tremendous corruption – from the fake Hillary Clinton investigation, to lying and leaking, to FISA abuse, and a list too long to name,” Sanders said in a tweet on Monday night. “The President did the country a service by firing him and exposing him for the shameless fraud he is.”
Sanders’ comments follow Comey’s roughly six-hour, closed-door interview with the House Judiciary and Oversight committee on Monday — the second such hearing Comey is publicly known to have attended this month.
Comey, who was asked questions about the FBI’s investigations into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and Hillary Clinton’s emails, appeared to be distraught by Trump’s repeated attacks on the department Comey once led until his…
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