Rep. Trey Gowdy said Friday that fired FBI Director James Comey lived by an unacceptable double standard that led him to leak information in order to get President Trump in trouble, but stay quiet about other information in order to help Hillary Clinton.
Speaking on Brian Kilmeade’s radio show, Gowdy, R-S.C., said Comey has admitted to leaking his memos about his meetings with Trump to a friend, in order to help create a special counsel to investigate Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
But Gowdy noted that Comey didn’t make any similar kinds of dramatic moves even though he thought Attorney General Loretta Lynch was not up to the task of investigating Clinton.
In his book, Comey said Lynch had a “tortured half-out, half-in approach” to the investigation of Clinton’s private email server. He said he considered calling for a special prosecutor in that case, but thought that would be “unfair” to Lynch.
But Gowdy said Comey’s approach to those two problems reveal Comey’s bias.
“[Y]ou did it to Trump to spur special counsel, but when Loretta Lynch, in your judgement, was not fit to oversee the Clinton e-mail investigation, you didn’t say a word to anybody,” Gowdy said. “You didn’t leak it to the Washington Post, you didn’t leak it to the New York Times.”
“You kept that secret but when Trump disappointed you by firing you, you had no problems leaking,” Gowdy said. “That is a double standard and is antithetical to a book on ethics and morality.”
