Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., charged Friday that former FBI Director James Comey has shown that he is blind to his own flaws, and is someone who only wants to prosecute people he disagrees with politically.
“The thing with Comey is, he is the hero in every story he tells,” Gowdy said on Fox News.
“He has what strikes me as a double standard,” he said. “If this person lies, he wants them to be president of the United States. If Andy McCabe lies, he’s still a standup guy.”
“But he thinks if President Trump lies he should be impeached,” Gowdy said. “That’s relativism, it’s antithetical to morals.”
Gowdy was responding to Comey’s latest argument that releasing information from the government is not a leak unless it contains classified information. But Gowdy said Comey has it all wrong.
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“Comey said, ‘I don’t do sneaky things, I don’t leak and I don’t do weasel things.’ And then his definition of ‘leak’ is to disseminate classified information. OK, that’s actually a crime,” Gowdy said.
“A leak is if you and I have an expectation of privacy in a conversation and then I go and divulge the contents of it,” Gowdy said. “That’s not a legal issue, that’s a moral issue, but it’s a leak.”
Gowdy said Comey clearly leaked his own memos to the press, which went against Comey’s pledge to Trump that he wouldn’t ever leak.
