Former FBI director James Comey said he believes Trump invited him to dinner in January 2017 in order to demand his loyalty in return for Trump’s decision to keep him on the job once he became president.
“The setup of the dinner, both the physical layout of a private meal and Trump’s pretense that he had not already asked me to stay on multiple occasions, convinced me this was an effort to establish a patronage relationship,” according to a leaked part of Comey’s book, set to release Tuesday.
According to those who read or were leaked parts of Comey’s book, “A Higher Loyalty,” the fired FBI director believed the president scheduled the “loyalty dinner” when it occurred to him that he had given Comey the “job for free,” and felt he needed to get something in return.
“This only added to the strangeness of the experience. The president of the United States had invited me to dinner and decided my job security was on the menu,” Comey writes in his highly anticipated memoir.
