Un-American by John J. Pitney Jr

Author:John J. Pitney Jr.
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

Throughout the investigation and afterward, Trump continued to undercut top law enforcement officials. “I have done a great service for our country when I fired James Comey because he was a bad cop, and he was a dirty cop, and he lied. He really lied.”[113] He also criticized Mueller many times. He even took a swipe at Christopher Wray, the man he named to succeed Comey at the FBI. In an interview, he told George Stephanopoulos that it was not necessary for campaign operatives to tell the FBI about offers of information by foreigners. When Stephanopoulos replied that the “FBI director said that is what should happen,” Trump said: “the FBI director is wrong, because frankly it doesn’t happen like that in life.”[114]

Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and other surrogates amplified Trump’s efforts to discredit law enforcement officials. In 1998, however, Gingrich had a different point of view. He said on the House floor that “the American people have the right to expect that the rule of law will prevail, that no one is above the law.”[115] He also told a political meeting: “There is something profoundly demeaning and destructive to have the White House systematically undermine an officer of the Department of Justice. And when I watch these paid hacks on television, to be quite honest, I am sickened by how unpatriotically they undermine the Constitution of the United States on behalf of their client.”[116]

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