That was a very close call when I wrote about it and finished the book back in the fall. Do you still believe that, given last week's events, that Donald Trump should not be prosecuted?

You do make the case at the end of your book that the Justice Department should not spend its time trying to prosecute Donald Trump after he leaves office for the sake of rebuilding national unity and moving on. 'I think it's still the best thing for the country not to have Donald Trump on our television screens every day for the next three or four years,' he says. Some Democrats have also called for prosecuting Trump over other potential crimes.Ĭomey tells NPR he thinks Trump should be impeached but opposes a drawn-out federal criminal trial. Washington, D.C.'s attorney general said the same. The federal prosecutor in Washington left open the possibility of charging Trump over crimes related to the riot. 'And I was also angry as someone who spent a lot of a career in law enforcement I was angry that it was being allowed to happen and that the Capitol was not being adequately defended. 'I was sickened, as I hope all Americans were, watching an attack on the center of our democracy,' Comey says of the violence.

Former FBI Director James Comey, here in 2017, says he was 'sickened' by last week's attack on the Capitol.įormer FBI Director James Comey's new memoir has the misfortune of rendering a verdict on the Trump presidency before what could be its most defining day.Ĭomey's book was already finished before the violent mob incited by the president stormed the Capitol last week, leading to five deaths.

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