In a private dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty From Comey --- Comey "Declined"

[kpete]

WASHINGTON — 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.

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[democratisphere]

1. Imagine the person who had to pledge allegiance to drumpf.

It would be like selling your soul to Satan.

[Docreed2003]

2. Of course trump talked about "crowd sizes"...the most insecure guy in the world!

[procon]

3. Trump thinks he's a king demanding an oath of fealty from his vassals.

If he was brazen enough to demand that Comey set aside his oath to defend the Constitution, how man other Trump hirelings have also sign away their souls to the devil?

“I,______, 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.”

No mention of any oath of fealty one would make to a king.

[kskiska]

4. So, who HAS signed a loyalty oath to him since he's been in Washington?

Maybe that's why he fired the Head Usher at the White House.