Rep. Maxine Waters tweeted Wednesday that “women across the country can relate” to reports that former FBI Director James Comey told Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he didn’t want to ever be left alone with President Trump.
“So Comey told Jeff Sessions he didn’t want to be alone with Trump. Women across the country can relate,” Waters tweeted.
So Comey told Jeff Sessions he didn’t want to be alone with Trump. Women across the country can relate.
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) June 7, 2017
Waters, the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, was responding to a comment Comey made to Attorney General Jeff Sessions about his unease with being left alone with Trump. The comment was made in testimony released prior to Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Waters has recently become a heroine of the left for her outspoken criticism of Trump.
Comey made this remark to Sessions soon after Trump asked the former FBI director for the agency to stop investigating the president’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
The New York Times first reported Comey’s conversation with Sessions, and the FBI director will confirm it himself in his planned testimony, which the Senate Intelligence Committee published online on Wednesday.
Waters’ tweet was likely in reference to the infamous Access Hollywood video that recorded Trump in 2005 making lewd remarks about women.
