Former FBI Director James Comey no longer wants to be associated with the Republican Party with President Trump in the White House.
Comey has been a registered Republican for most of his life.
“I just think they’ve lost their way and I can’t be associated with it,” Comey told ABC News podcast “Start Here” during his media blitz to promote his book, A Higher Loyalty.
Comey said he no longer considers himself a Republican. He said he came to that realization after he was fired by Trump last year amid the FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“These people don’t represent anything I believe in,” he explained, pointing to the Republican National Committee’s website LyinComey.com.
“I see the Republican Party, as near as I can tell, reflects now entirely Donald Trump’s values,” Comey continued. “It doesn’t reflect values at all. It’s transactional, it’s ego-driven, it’s in service to his ego. And it’s, I think, consoling itself that we’re going to achieve important policy goals — a tax cut or something.”
He does still respect at least one Republican, however.
Comey called former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney a “person of principal and honor.”
