Former FBI director James Comey referenced a famous line by English King Henry II during his Senate testimony on June 8. I hope you can let this go.”“I took it as a direction,” Comey said. Trump fired Comey last month amid an FBI probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Yes, it rings in my ear as kind of, ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’ ”King said: “I was just going to quote that in 1170 [of] Dec. 29 Henry II said, ‘Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?’ And then the next day he was killed. We’re thinking along the same lines.”The reference between Comey and King goes back to an outburst from King Henry II about the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Source: Washington Post June 08, 2017 19:00 UTC