James Comey: How Trump Co-opts Leaders Like Bill Barr

[mystery-ak]

James Comey: How Trump Co-opts Leaders Like Bill Barr

Accomplished people lacking inner strength can’t resist the compromises necessary to survive this president.

By James Comey

Mr. Comey is the former F.B.I. director.

    May 1, 2019

People have been asking me hard questions. What happened to the leaders in the Trump administration, especially the attorney general, Bill Barr, who I have said was due the benefit of the doubt?

How could Mr. Barr, a bright and accomplished lawyer, start channeling the president in using words like “no collusion” and F.B.I. “spying”? And downplaying acts of obstruction of justice as products of the president’s being “frustrated and angry,” something he would never say to justify the thousands of crimes prosecuted every day that are the product of frustration and anger?

How could he write and say things about the report by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, that were apparently so misleading that they prompted written protest from the special counsel himself?

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[Victoria33]

This is what has happened and is still happening and will continue until Trump has lived his last day of life.  Read this article well and see if it apples to you - the way you adjusted your thinking to abide Trump's behavior.  Comey states it well:  "Of course, to stay, you must be seen as on his team, so you make further compromises. You use his language, praise his leadership, tout his commitment to values.  And then you are lost. He has eaten your soul."

[Right_in_Virginia]

This is what has happened and is still happening and will continue until Trump has lived his last day of life.  Read this article well and see if it apples to you - the way you adjusted your thinking to abide Trump's behavior.  Comey states it well:  "Of course, to stay, you must be seen as on his team, so you make further compromises. You use his language, praise his leadership, tout his commitment to values.  And then you are lost. He has eaten your soul.

 

[corbe]

   @Victoria33 hits a little too close to home, doesn't she @Right_in_Virginia

[Right_in_Virginia]

   @Victoria33 hits a little too close to home, doesn't she @Right_in_Virginia

I don't know what she's hitting @corbe but it's not home.

[EdJames]

[corbe]

  I don't like Comey, never did, @Right_in_Virginia but what he is saying and Victoria is articulating is what more than a few of us here have seen played out over and over again the last 3+ years in this Administration.   

[Right_in_Virginia]

  I don't like Comey, never did, @Right_in_Virginia but what he is saying and Victoria is articulating is what more than a few of us here have seen played out over and over again the last 3+ years in this Administration.

It doesn't mean they're correct.

[Bigun]

I don't know what she's hitting @corbe but it's not home.

I can make a pretty good guess I'll bet.

[truth_seeker]

Anybody that has worked in the upper levels of organizations, knows there are some very strong people, that will test your own limits.

My guess is that those suffering Trump Derangement rarely make it to those upper levels.

However they naively imagine it must be easy.

To feel more powerful and complete, they vicariously pretend occupying levels above their real stations, by criticizing the boss(es).