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Former FBI Director James Comey, who claims to be a lifelong Republican, explained why he is backing President Joe Biden for reelection over any other GOP candidate — but especially the former boss who fired him, Donald Trump.
In an interview on far-left MSNBC, when asked who he believes should be in the Oval Office come January 2025, he said: “It has to be Joe Biden.”
“I’m glad he’s willing to serve. It has to be somebody committed to the rule of law, committed to the values of this country,” Comey told host and former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki, now an MSNBC host. “And I’m not talking about policy. People can disagree about policy. There are things above those disagreements that all of us should think about the same way.
“The president must be someone who abides by the law and our Constitution. And there’s no one else but Joe Biden,” Comey claimed.
The Epoch Times noted:
Currently, two Democrats—book author Marianne Williamson and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—are challenging Biden for the Democrat nomination for president in 2024.
Seven Republicans have announced a 2024 White House bid—Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, conservative radio host Larry Elder, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
On Monday, reports said that former Vice President Mike Pence had filed paperwork to run for the GOP nomination against Trump.
If Trump is reelected, Comey expressed concerns that he would be targeted by the former president in what would be “four years of a retribution presidency.”
“He could order the investigation and prosecution of individuals who he sees as enemies. I’m sure I’m on the enemy list,” Comey said. “Because the president constitutionally does oversee the executive branch entirely, which includes the Department of Justice, prosecutors, and investigators, and so he could commission, direct that individuals be pursued.
“He could also direct all kinds of other conduct that people would maybe take to court to try to stop—but who enforces court orders? Mostly the United States Marshals Service, which is part of the executive branch and reports to the president.”
Comey continued: “And so President Trump could say, ‘I don’t care what the Supreme Court says or these district judges say, I’m telling the Marshals Service don’t enforce the court order.’”
“And so our Constitution really does give a rogue president, which is what this would be, tremendous power to destroy,” he added.
Comey’s concerns about being investigated for no good reason are ironic, to say the least, given that special counsel John Durham’s four-year investigation confirmed earlier probes that the FBI, under Comey, launched an investigation into then-candidate Trump’s 2016 campaign on phony allegations of “collusion” with Russia.
Durham concluded that Comey’s FBI relied on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence,” and that “objective facts show that the FBI’s handling of important aspects of the Crossfire Hurricane matter were seriously deficient.”
His report portrayed a troubling image of an FBI that deviated from its core mission and guiding principles in its pursuit of a partisan investigation targeting Trump.
The New York Post added:
Durham’s final report, released May 15, declared that the bureau’s probe into whether the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election was “seriously flawed” and that “the FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship.”
Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, voiced their indignation and bewilderment about the refusal of several pivotal figures in the investigation, such as Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and former FBI counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok, to participate in interviews with Durham.
In addition, they wondered why Durham did not try to legally compel them to provide testimony under oath.
