White House counselor Kellyanne Conway attacked former FBI director James B. Comey as “a grandstander and a showboat” on Wednesday in response to an op-ed by Comey in which he defended the FBI against repeated criticism from President Trump. During a morning television appearance, Conway suggested that Comey is worried about ongoing investigations into the origins of the probe of possible coordination between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign. The probe was launched under the watch of Comey, whom Trump later fired. In his op-ed for The Washington Post, Comey wrote that it is important to “call out [Trump’s] lies that the FBI was corrupt and committed treason, that we spied on the Trump campaign and tried to defeat Donald Trump.”“Who cares what he thinks?” Conway said of Comey during her interview. “We already know how much the sexters, I mean the texters, of course, were making fun of Trump voters,” Conway said.

Source: Washington Post May 29, 2019 14:02 UTC