Former FBI Director Jim Comey joined John Berman on CNN on Wednesday to debate his new e-book.
Throughout their dialogue Comey continued his lies that he didn’t know what 8647 meant.
Final week Comey posted a photograph of seashells he mentioned he ran throughout lined up completely in an 8647 association.
Comey instructed the CNN viewers on Wednesday that the “seashell factor” is a little bit of a distraction.
Comey’s e-book additionally occurs to be a couple of ‘right-wing extremist’ who’s making threats that will result in violence.
Humorous, how that traces up completely together with his seashell threats in opposition to President Trump!
Jim Comey: Truly, it nonetheless doesn’t (hit me), that it’s (8647) related to violence.
John Berman: It nonetheless doesn’t, despite the fact that individuals have pointed it out, that it has been utilized in that context?
Jim Comey: Yeah, I’ve by no means seen it utilized in that context or heard it utilized in that context. Nonetheless…
John Berman: How was your interview with the Secret Service about this?
Jim Comey: Oh, good. They’re complete professionals. I’ve labored with Secret Service for a lot of, a few years, and so they requested the fitting questions, attempting to grasp why I did it. We had a really related dialog to the one you and I simply had.
John Berman: Did you permit pondering that they believed you, or did you permit pondering they nonetheless had issues?
Jim Comey: Properly, I don’t have any cause to consider they don’t consider me. And so I really feel like they requested
the fitting questions, and I can’t think about there’ll be any extra on it.
John Berman: Your e-book is about protected speech when protected speech turns into political violence. Is {that a} truthful technique to characterize it? It’s about an excessive podcaster who talks about issues, after which there are acts of political violence.
Jim Comey: Proper. It’s a couple of right-wing extremist attempting to inspire followers to violence via his phrases in his broadcast.
John Berman: It’s attention-grabbing that your e-book is about that, and now there may be this dialogue about speech, issues mentioned, and whether or not it may be motivating towards violence. Sure?
Jim Comey: Yeah, not attention-grabbing to me. A little bit of a distraction, really. However The e-book’s about an essential query. I don’t see the seashell factor as an essential difficulty, however I hope people will learn the e-book and see that it’s a fantastic thriller, however it’s additionally about issues which might be essential and present.
John Berman: How difficult is it to put in writing political fiction now when it looks as if virtually each sensational political occasion that might occur has occurred in actual life?
Jim Comey: Yeah, and a few of the stuff that goes on, a journalist being invited to a sign chat. If you happen to put it in your novel, your editor would say, Come on, minimize that out. That is fiction, however it’s obtained to be actual. So fact continues to shock and be stranger than fiction. I’m attempting to put in writing very actual fiction, so present individuals.
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