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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jan 12, 2019, 05:00 PM Jan 2019

James Comey channels FDR in rebuke of Trump's FBI tweets

Former FBI Director James Comey tweeted out a single quote from former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Saturday in response to tweets from President Trump about Comey's firing and the reports of an investigation into Trump as a possible Russian agent.

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made," Comey tweeted, attributing to FDR.

Trump called Comey a "total sleaze" Saturday in a series of tweets where Trump claimed that no other president has been as tough on Russia as he. Trump's statements come after the New York Times reported that Trump was secretly investigated by the FBI following Comey's firing on the suspicion that Trump may have been working for Russia, a counterintelligence investigation that has since been taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller's .

Trump had used the same quote without context in a November 2012 tweet.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/james-comey-channels-fdr-in-rebuke-of-trumps-fbi-tweets/ar-BBS9yYK?li=BBnbcA1

Trump of all people calling someone a sleaze?

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James Comey channels FDR in rebuke of Trump's FBI tweets (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 OP
Sorry but Comey is a sleaze. nt DURHAM D Jan 2019 #1
The enemy of my enemy ain't necessarily my friend! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2019 #2
Comey and FDR don't belong in the same sentence. Comey is pure scum lunamagica Jan 2019 #3
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