“I don’t have confidence in [FBI Director James Comey] any longer.”
These are the words of Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, one of the loudest voices calling for a special investigation of President Trump following Trump’s firing of Comey for insubordination. These exact words were uttered in the days before Comey’s firing, yet Schumer was one of the quickest to respond angrily to Trump’s termination of the bureau chief.
And of course, it wasn’t just Schumer who’s been guilty of this POV whiplash — there are many others in the party of the Left calling for Trump’s head on a platter who had earlier also wanted Comey gone. In the press, allusions were made to former President Nixon, who fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox when the latter man subpoenaed Nixon for the infamous Watergate tapes. Of course, much less was said about Bill Clinton’s 1993 firing of FBI Director Williams Sessions for Sessions’ ethical improprieties, which even former Attorney General Janet Reno referred to as “serious deficiencies in judgment.”
When will the Democrats learn that you can’t have your cake and eat it too?
Watch as White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders reads quote after quote from Democrats both in and out of Congress who’d been harshly critical of Comey — especially after Comey’s reopening of the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton last October — and then responded with vitriol when the president pulled his Apprentice-like punch line for the nation’s top criminal investigator. Does hypocrisy get richer than this?