President Donald Trump’s complaint that an FBI raid against his personal lawyer Michael Cohen constituted “an attack on our country” shows a lack of understanding of the U.S. justice system, former FBI Director James Comey said Monday.
“Yeah, it shows me he either doesn’t know or doesn’t care what the rule of law looks like. Nobody broke into anybody’s office. It doesn’t happen,” Comey told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “The FBI gets a search warrant from a federal judge and conducts itself professionally, completely and politely by the accounts of the people involved so it’s a total distortion of the way things work.”
Trump was emphatic in his criticism last week of the FBI’s execution of search warrants against Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime personal attorney, calling it a “disgraceful situation,” “an attack on our country, in a true sense” and “an attack on what we all stand for.” Those characterizations don’t match, Comey said, with the reality of how the bureau operated in raiding Cohen’s home and office.
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The pardon was seen by some as a signal from Trump that he would use his pardon power to protect individuals close to him or his allies who have become wrapped up in federal investigations, although the White House has denied such a motive.
“It’s an attack on the rule of law. There’s a reason President George W. Bush, for whom Scooter Libby worked, refused to pardon him after looking at all the facts in the case,” Comey said of the Libby pardon. “It was an overwhelming case. There’s no reason that’s consistent with justice to pardon him. And so it’s an attack on the rule of law in my view.”
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Trump only cares about his own interests.
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