Earlier, Comey likened Trump expressing the “hope” that the investigation into Flynn would disappear to an anecdote about Henry II. Specifically that king’s complicity in the murder of his Archibishop of Canterbury–Thomas Becket– in 1170.
Specifically, Henry II reportedly said: “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest,” in the presence of his aristocratic cronies, which they took as direction to kill him.
Senator ABS: Mr. Comey. To the best of your ability, do you know what an analogy is?
Comey: I'm not sure I follow you, Senator ABS.
Senator ABS. Was king Henry VIII speaking directly to Thomas Beckett?
Comey. Um, no...but I don't see what that has..
Senator ABS. You are trying to establish an analogy that what the King said is analogous to what POTUS Trump said but Trump was speaking directly to you and not to his sycophants, right?
If the two scenarios were analogous, The King would have had to have been speaking directly to Thomas Beckett, right?
Comey. O
Senator ABS. To the best of your recollection, Mr. Comey, have you ever been assassinated?
Comey. No.
Senator ABS: Given your long and squirrely history as a known leaker and an usurper of the legal authority of others
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/the-comey-non-crisis/
do you think that POTUS Trump wants you assassinated when you have already done such an expert job of assassinating your own character?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/the-comey-non-crisis/
do you think that POTUS Trump wants you assassinated when you have already done such an expert job of assassinating your own character?
Comey. I need a break to leak....