Comey says Trump a bigger threat than Russia

Americans are in danger of ignoring casual lies by President Trump, making him a bigger threat in a sense than Russian actors trying to interfere in U.S. elections, according to former FBI Director James Comey. “I’m sure Russia is engaged in efforts to undermine all manner of American institutions, but the president of the United States tweets lies about those institutions nearly every day," Comey said Thursday at a Hewlett Foundation event near San Francisco. "He does it so often that we’ve become numb to it. And there’s danger in that numbness."

Trump fired Comey in May 2017 over what he later said was an effort to shut down a probe into Russia's interference in the 2016 campaign. Since then, the president has regularly targeted Comey for criticism over Twitter.

"I wake up some mornings and the president’s tweeted I should be in jail. You know what I do? I laugh and I go, ‘Oh, there he goes again.’ I don’t follow him on Twitter, so I only see it if one of you retweets it. But I laugh. And that laughing is dangerous.”

Comey also disputed Attorney General William Barr's claim that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election. “I don’t understand what the heck he’s talking about,” Comey said. “But when I hear that kind of language used, it’s concerning because the FBI and the Department of Justice conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance. I have never thought of that as ‘spying.’"

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Hillary Clinton hits back at Buttigieg over his slap at her failed 2016 campaign

Hillary Clinton defended herself after 2020 Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg criticized his party's 2016 nominee for being too hopeful and not understanding the struggles of everyday Americans.

"I really do believe that we always have to appeal to our better selves because the wolf is at the door, my friends," Clinton said Friday during an appearance at the 10th Annual Women in the World New York Summit. "Negativity, despair, anxiety, resentment, anger, prejudice, that's part of human nature and the job of the leader is to appeal to us to be more than we can be on our own, to join hands in common effort." "I was well aware that we had problems that we had to solve, but it's been my experience that anger, resentment, prejudice are not strategies," the former First Lady, Secretary of State and senator from New York added. "They stop people from thinking. They don't enlist people in the common effort to try to find solutions.

Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., told the Washington Post in January that President Trump connected with the concerns of ordinary Americans in a way Clinton did not. “Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy,” he said. “At least he didn’t go around saying that America was already great, like Hillary did.”

A senior Clinton adviser blasted Buttigieg's comments last month via Twitter as "indefensible." "[Hillary Clinton] ran on a belief in this country & the most progressive platform in modern political history. Trump ran on pessimism, racism, false promises, & vitriol. Interpret that how you want, but there are 66,000,000 people who disagree. Good luck," Nick Merrill tweeted. "It's pretty simple. Slam HRC…lose my vote," and another who chimed in: "It is unfortunate when people as smart as @PeteButtigieg engage in this fantasy fiction about 2016. And as a gay American it is disappointing because @HillaryClinton ran a campaign which amongst its many values championed our community," Merrill also wrote.

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Boston Globe writer urges waiters to ‘tamper’ with food of Republicans

A Boston Globe columnist called for waiters to contaminate the food of Trump administration officials. The column by Luke O'Neil was modified and then taken down by Globe editors. “Keep Kirstjen Nielsen unemployed and eating Grubhub over her kitchen sink,” referring to the recently ousted Department of Homeland Security secretary. “As for the waiters out there, I’m not saying you should tamper with anyone’s food, as that could get you into trouble,” O’Neil wrote. “You might lose your serving job. But you’d be serving America. And you won’t have any regrets years later.” He added that '“not pissing in Bill Kristol’s salmon" when he was a waiter was one of his eternal regrets. “I was waiting on the disgraced neoconservative pundit and chief Iraq War cheerleader about 10 years ago at a restaurant in Cambridge and to my eternal dismay, some combination of professionalism and pusillanimity prevented me from appropriately seasoning his entree,”

The Globe to found itself dealing with a wave of outrage. Herman Cain, one of President Trump's two picks for the Federal Reserve Board, tweeted, "Who makes the editorial decisions at the Boston Globe?"

O’Neil hit back at the Globe for removing the article from its website. “Absolute brain genius move by the Globe to edit my story three times then take it down altogether and put up a note saying I’m not on staff instead of perhaps standing by a long time contributor and siding with labor instead of bad faith critics who would hate them no matter what,” O’Neil said on Twitter. He added: “I will never write for them again.”

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They want him gone quick..those who will not hear will never see!