Comey refused to pledge loyalty to Trump at a dinner they shared. Said he'd always

[applegrove]

be honest. CNN reporting on NYTimes story.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.amp.html

[kentuck]

1. Trump couldn't turn him.

He needs to get someone like Peter Hoekstra from Michigan... a former chair of the House Intelligence Committee... to be his new FBI Director. Someone that will be willing to take his loyalty pledge.

[lapfog_1]

2. This is probably the same dinner (a very nice dinner)

that Drump characterized as "Comey looking to keep his job"

Only I bet that Comey didn't look at it that way... after all, he serves a 10-year term.

[PA Democrat]

3. NYT: In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred.

Only seven days after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president, James B. Comey has told associates, the F.B.I. director was summoned to the White House for a one-on-one dinner with the new commander in chief.

The conversation that night in January, Mr. Comey now believes, was a harbinger of his downfall this week as head of the F.B.I., according to two people who have heard his account of the dinner.

As they ate, the president and Mr. Comey made small talk about the election and the crowd sizes at Mr. Trump’s rallies. The president then turned the conversation to whether Mr. Comey would pledge his loyalty to him.

Mr. Comey declined to make that pledge. Instead, Mr. Comey has recounted to others, he told Mr. Trump that he would always be honest with him, but that he was not “reliable” in the conventional political sense.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=politics&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Politics&pgtype=article

[PA Democrat]

4. Drip, drip, drip.

[elleng]

5. Government employees' oath:

I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

5 U.S.C. §3331

[Initech]

6. Who makes people take a loyalty path?

Serial killers? Dictators? Wannabe dictators?

[applegrove]

7. The mob. Cults. British in colonial times...