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It's starting to sound like Comey was paranoid about Trump from the moment he was inaugurated



Maybe there's a reason Donald Trump thought Jim Comey was a "nut job." Initial reports about the Comey memo - the one that as of yet no one has actually seen - made it sound like Comey made the extraordinary decision to document a highly irregular conversation with the president. But the more we learn about Comey in general, and about his attitude toward President Trump specifically, the more it sounds like Comey was rather paranoid about his relationship with Trump - both the perception of it and the reality.

Paranoid enough to wear a blue suit and stand in front of blue curtains

How paranoid? If you haven't seen it, you should check out Allahpundit's piece on this from HotAir last Friday. Paranoid enough to wear a blue suit and stand in front of blue curtains in the hope that Trump would somehow not see him during a White House reception shortly after the inauguration. Paranoid enough to worry that when Trump shook his hand he might try to turn the handshake into a hug, and to actually develop a strategy to prevent that from happening. Here is the result of his determined efforts This sounds more like some girl who knows a guy likes her, and the feelings are decidedly unrequited, so she doesn't want to encourage him by returning what she expects will be his attempts at casual affection. Of course, a bro hug between a president and an FBI director has none of the same meaning - unless one of the would-be participants decides in his own mind that it does, I guess.

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Larger phobia Comey seemed to develop about Trump

If you can believe the Times, which is admittedly a big if, this was part of a larger phobia Comey seemed to develop about Trump. He didn't want to have direct conversations with him. He didn't want to be seen with him. Whether he was freaked out by the possibility that he would piss off Democrats who already blamed him for Hillary's loss, or Trump just gave him the heebie-jeebies for whatever reason, Comey seemed to think through every potential contact with Trump in exhaustive detail, even to the point where he would rehearse his answers to questions he thought Trump might ask him. Oh, and that extraordinary memo Comey supposedly wrong after the White House meeting? Not so extraordinary, as it turns out. It seems Comey is quite the memo writer, and had a file full of these things, particularly as they related to any and all interactions with Trump. Which leaves one to wonder: Just how much stock can we put in Comey's characterization of a conversation between the two of them? If Comey was that freaked out by, and suspicious of, Trump going in, then isn't it entirely possible that he interpreted a relatively innocuous question in the worst possible way because he was already predisposed to think the worst of anything Trump might do or say? I don't know if you've ever experienced this, because depending on what you do for a living or the other endeavors in your life, it might simply not apply to you. As a writer I've encountered a few readers over the course of the years who, for whatever reason, decided I was the worst piece of alleged humanity that had ever crawled out of the primordial ooze. Everything I say, do or write is automatically assumed by these folks to be dishonest, insincere, evil or whatever. It sort of comes with the territory and you don't think much of it. But if you had someone like this in your actual real life, and you had to deal with them in a serious setting, it could obviously become a real problem.

It's looking more and more like Comey was this to Trump. He simply hated the whole idea of Trump, and dealt with him in a way that clearly reflected that. If Comey wasn't trying to make sure he had no dealings with Trump whatsoever, then he was quietly building a case against Trump for use in whatever fashion. What you do with that depends, I suppose, on your predisposition toward one or both men. If you already hate Trump and think he's awful/abnormal or whatever else, then have complete sympathy for Comey's feelings on the matter. But it does seem to me that Comey's disdain for Trump was baked in before he ever really had to deal with the man, and as such gave rise to behavior that bordered on real paranoia. And if that's the case, then whatever that memo says has to be viewed through that lense. Trump denies, of course, that he asked Comey to kill the Flynn investigation. Comey clearly inferred that Trump wanted him to kill it. Was that inference a rational one? Or was it informed a pre-existing paranoia that rendered Comey incapable of objectively assessing what was happening in that room? I had big problems with the way Comey handled the Hillary investigation, but all throughout that affair, I never thought he was anything but a rational actor responding to the pressures he was under. I never thought he was paranoid or weird. Now I'm starting to wonder about that.


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