20th April 2018, 8:19 PM
The Star Wars prequels are great movies and always have been! My thoughts on those haven't changed much with time, I still like them.
On another note though, this Comey book and his PR tour hasn't changed my core thought on him, that he got Trump elected by his decision to release that memo, in a way that went against prior FBI policy, and he needed to be fired for it. So, Trump's decision to fire him was good and necessary... but his reasoning why was quite bad, and is why, despite agreeing that he should have been fired, that Trump actually did it deserves to be the big scandal that it is. Trump fired him in an attempt to obstruct justice in the Russia investigation, after all! That's really bad. But had Hillary won despite his interference, I'd have expected her to fire Comey as well, because he needed to go for doing what he did to her.
In the book Comey apparently says that he may have decided to release that memo in part because he thought Hillary was going to win, and didn't want people afterwards to say how he'd been hiding this, but that's no good excuse, not with how important it proved to be and considering that there wasn't actually anything behind it -- Hillary was cleared before the election, after all!
So no, just because Comey turned on Trump after Trump's election, and has some amusing anecdotes about how awful Trump is and how he doesn't care about things like truth, it doesn't mean I like Comey now.
On another note though, this Comey book and his PR tour hasn't changed my core thought on him, that he got Trump elected by his decision to release that memo, in a way that went against prior FBI policy, and he needed to be fired for it. So, Trump's decision to fire him was good and necessary... but his reasoning why was quite bad, and is why, despite agreeing that he should have been fired, that Trump actually did it deserves to be the big scandal that it is. Trump fired him in an attempt to obstruct justice in the Russia investigation, after all! That's really bad. But had Hillary won despite his interference, I'd have expected her to fire Comey as well, because he needed to go for doing what he did to her.
In the book Comey apparently says that he may have decided to release that memo in part because he thought Hillary was going to win, and didn't want people afterwards to say how he'd been hiding this, but that's no good excuse, not with how important it proved to be and considering that there wasn't actually anything behind it -- Hillary was cleared before the election, after all!
So no, just because Comey turned on Trump after Trump's election, and has some amusing anecdotes about how awful Trump is and how he doesn't care about things like truth, it doesn't mean I like Comey now.