Comey Responds To Trump’s Suggestion That He Should Be Put In Jail

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Former FBI director James Comey has responded to President Trump’s erratic tweets suggesting that he should go to jail for a long list of reasons.

Trump fired off the Tweets Sunday morning, a reaction to Comey’s new tell-all book A Higher Loyalty and probably the anxiety of an explosive interview with Comey that was set to air that night on ABC.

In a new NPR interview, Comey responded to the tweets by emphasizing the abnormality of the POTUS calling for a private citizen to be imprisoned and the dangers of the public becoming numb to Trump’s bizarre and unstable behavior.

“President Trump, I don’t follow him on Twitter but I get to see his tweets tweeted, I don’t know how many, but some tweets this past couple of days that I should be in jail,” Comey said. “The president of the United States just said that a private citizen should be jailed. And I think the reaction of most of us was, “‘meh, that’s another one of those things.'”

He continued, “This is not normal. This is not OK. There’s a danger that we will become numb to it, and we will stop noticing the threats to our norms. The threats to the rule of law and the threats most of all to the truth. And so the reason I’m talking in terms of morality is, those are the things that matter most to this country. And there’s a great danger we’ll be numbed into forgetting that, and then only a fool would be consoled by some policy victory.”

Comey’s book is just the latest thing to trigger a meltdown for Trump as the FBI’s investigation into whether he colluded with Russia to win the presidency continues to intensify.