C-SPAN host Greta Brawner wasn’t about to let a Democrat caller rewrite history about disgraced former FBI Director James Comey.
On Friday morning’s call-in program, a Democrat caller named David from Maryland phoned into C-SPAN and insisted that Comey was an “honorable man” who “did everything by the book.”
He even called current FBI Director Kash Patel “a sick man” and “unqualified.” But Greta Brawner wasn’t about to let the caller’s delusional rewrite of history go unchallenged.
David: Thank you for having me on. I think that Comey—his record speaks for itself. He was a very honorable man who served this country. He did everything by the book. I think he was the prime example of someone you want to direct the FBI.
Now, currently, we have Kash Patel, who I think is a complete idiot. He’s sick. He’s a sick man in that position and unqualified. For Trump to go after Comey at this point is very obvious—the trail that led up to this and his feelings about Comey. The only mistake Comey ever made was getting involved with Trump.
Greta Brawner: Well, David, how do you respond to this? This is the Associated Press back in 2019. According to Inspector General Watchdog, Comey violated FBI policies in handling of memos. This is what the Inspector General found: Violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Trump.
The Watchdog office said Comey broke bureau rules by giving one memo containing unclassified information to a friend with instructions to share the content with a reporter.
Comey also failed to return his memos to the FBI after he was dismissed in May of 2017, retaining copies of some of them in a safe at home, and shared them with his personal lawyers without permission from the FBI.
It goes on to say the report is the second in as many years to criticize Comey’s actions as FBI director, following a separate Inspector General rebuke for decisions made during the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
It is one of multiple Inspector General investigations undertaken in the last three years into the decisions and actions of Comey and other senior FBI leaders. Now, David, you said Comey didn’t make any mistakes.
David: Okay. Well, what I’d like to say is that’s the course of doing business. When Trump had all those documents in his house—Florida, Mar-a-Lago home—what about that? Did that ever get followed up on? What about all the things that he has done: making his own Bitcoin, about going after his political enemies? What about his selling? How selling cars from Elon Musk on the White House lawn? If any other president, especially Obama—if he did that—what would we be hearing from the Republicans?
WATCH:
NEW: C-SPAN Host Greta Brawner *FACT-CHECKS* Dem Caller who claims James Comey “DID EVERYTHING BY THE BOOK”
BRAWNER: “This is the Associated Press back in 2019: According to inspector general watchdog, Comey … ‘violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting… pic.twitter.com/ckxL6nBFu9
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