Former FBI Director James Comey
James Brien ComeySunday shows preview: Republicans go for national convention, USPS debate continues in Washington CNN’s Cupp, Carpenter, Setmayer to headline ‘Convention on Founding Principles’ Clinton gets her I-told-you-so moment MORE on Sunday, a tweet called through Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Within Ed Markey’s Probable Rise as an Icon for Biden Gen Z Activists, Democrats Get Money Boost at Digital Convention Democrats Look to Capitalize on Biden’s Big Moment MORE mocked his actions leading up to the 2016 election “pretty funny” and added that he understood why they sent the jab.
Comey tweeted a photo of himself in a t-shirt last week reading “Elect More Women” on the seventeenth of the 19thth Amendment.
In response, the former Secretary of State tweeted a GIF of herself looking surprised during a 2016 interview, referring to Comey’s letter a week before the election announcing new developments in the investigation of her private email server. Clinton has suggested that she thinks reopening the investigation will cost her the election.
“I find it pretty funny, and I get the reason she would post such a thing. She’s better on Twitter than I am,” Comey rold CBS ‘”Face the Nation.” “I regret only being involved in the 2016 election. We were stuck and I think we made the right decisions, choosing between terrible options. I did not try, nor was there anyone else in the FBI,” who tried to choose everyone or not to choose. “
.@Comey responds to @HillaryClinton‘S subtle jab about his tweet calls for more women in political office, highlight # WomensVote100:
Are you sorry? “I find it pretty funny. I get why she would send such a thing. I only regret that she was involved in the 2016 elections.” pic.twitter.com/1AaVByG63N
– Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 23, 2020
“I hope more women are elected to office,” he concluded. “I’m proud of that shirt that my daughters and my wife gave me, and I think it’s time for more women to be leaders in this country. We’ll all be better off.”
DURHAM PROBE: Former CIA Director John Brennan
John Owen BrennanEx CIA Director Brennan questioned 8 hours in Durham review by Russian probe GOP senator draws fire from all sides on Biden, Obama-era probes The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Biden, Harris launches Trump offensive in first common appearance MORE sat down for an interview with John DurhamJohn DurhamEx-CIA Director Brennan questioned 8 hours in Durham review by Russia probe Ex-FBI lawyer Clinesmith pleads guilty to forging document in Trump Russia probe Turley: Despite guilty plea, Democrats declare this ‘investigation by investigators’ MORE this week. Does @Comey think he is a target?@Comey tells @margbrennan: “I can not imagine I’m a target … They just want an investigation to talk about” pic.twitter.com/cQM0B6qLhP
– Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 23, 2020
Comey also handled the investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham into the origins of the FBI probe into President Trump
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When asked by CBS ‘Margareta Brennan if he believed he was a target himself, Comey replied, “I can not imagine I’m a target … They just want an investigation to talk about.”
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