"Rep. Matt Gaetz said former FBI Director James Comey would likely be in prison if President Trump had sooner installed a spy chief who declassified secrets that suggest a cover-up in the Obama administration.

The Florida Republican fumed on Wednesday over the contents of a fully declassified email former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice sent to herself about a January 2017 Oval Office discussion on the Michael Flynn investigation, in which Comey told former President Barack Obama that he was conducting the inquiry into President Trump's incoming national security adviser "by the book."

"If lies were music, Susan Rice would be Mozart," Gaetz told Fox News host Sean Hannity. "If I were writing myself an email where three times I had to say I did everything 'by the book,' that is certainly more incriminating than it is exculpatory. If Ric Grenell had been the director of national intelligence back in 2017, Jim Comey would probably already be under the jail because the Grenell disclosures laid bare the coup before the American people," Gaetz said. "Obama was involved, Biden was involved, Susan Rice was involved, and Jim Comey was set up to be the inside man going from the Obama administration to the Trump administration."

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