Comey
Comey appears to be a man who, throughout a distinguished career, has greatly prized his own reputation for probity.
This very concern may, ironically, have led him to make an unprecedented public statement on the FBI's decision to clear Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing in the email business...
Which initiated the chain of events that ultimately led to his infamous October and November letters to congress, announcing the reopening and then reclosing of the investigation into Clinton's emails...
Which may well have caused Trump to win the presidency, and which definitely caused Comey to be perceived as having decisively if not deliberately interfered in a presidential election...
Which is a terrible and probably permanent stain on his reputation for probity.
Indeed, this interference is, regardless of anything he may have accomplished throughout his distinguished career, the most conspicuous event of his career, and the definitive item in his public reputation and legacy...
Until he was fired by Donald Trump. Now that is the most conspicuous event of his career.
Insofar as history remembers James Comey it will be for this chain of events.
James Comey, who greatly values his reputation for probity, must understand this better than anyone, and must regret it all bitterly.
How, then, can he recover his reputation and his legacy?
By bringing down Trump, thus becoming the man who saved the republic from tyranny.
This very concern may, ironically, have led him to make an unprecedented public statement on the FBI's decision to clear Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing in the email business...
Which initiated the chain of events that ultimately led to his infamous October and November letters to congress, announcing the reopening and then reclosing of the investigation into Clinton's emails...
Which may well have caused Trump to win the presidency, and which definitely caused Comey to be perceived as having decisively if not deliberately interfered in a presidential election...
Which is a terrible and probably permanent stain on his reputation for probity.
Indeed, this interference is, regardless of anything he may have accomplished throughout his distinguished career, the most conspicuous event of his career, and the definitive item in his public reputation and legacy...
Until he was fired by Donald Trump. Now that is the most conspicuous event of his career.
Insofar as history remembers James Comey it will be for this chain of events.
James Comey, who greatly values his reputation for probity, must understand this better than anyone, and must regret it all bitterly.
How, then, can he recover his reputation and his legacy?
By bringing down Trump, thus becoming the man who saved the republic from tyranny.