Former FBI Director James Comey wrote about the hallmarks of good leadership on Twitter Sunday shortly after President Trump took to the same social media platform to vent his frustration with the parent of one of the UCLA basketball players detained in China for shoplifting.
“’A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit,'” Comey tweeted, quoting American businessman Arnold H. Glasow.
Earlier, Trump lashed out at LaVar Ball, the father of UCLA freshmen LiAngelo Ball, who responded, “Who?” when asked by ESPN to comment on Trump’s involvement in negotiating the release of his son with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
LiAngelo Ball, and teammates Jalen Hill and Cody Riley, were caught trying to steal sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou, China, while Trump was touring the country.
The three players thanked Trump on Wednesday days after Trump asked on Twitter whether they would express their gratitude to him for intervening on their behalf.
Comey has tweeted similarly veiled references to other political news like the sexual harassment allegations leveled at Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., as well as the indictments announced against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
Comey was fired by Trump in May, which led to Mueller’s appointment to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
