Comey: Lack of Trust in Institutions Is the ‘Product of Relentless Lying by a Demagogue President’
Former FBI Director James Comey is attributing the decline of trust in American institutions to what he believes is former President Donald Trump’s lack of honesty. “A large part of the drop in trust in our…
Former FBI Director James Comey is attributing the decline of trust in American institutions to what he believes is former President Donald Trump’s lack of honesty.
“A large part of the drop in trust in our institutions, and in our civil society, has been the product of relentless lying by a demagogue president,” Comey said during an interview with ABC 7.30
He added, “It’s a depressing thing to admit but lying works when it comes from the top office in the land, and then it’s echoed in media and by other enablers in and outside of government.”
Comey suggested it is “normally a healthy thing” for individuals to believe what a leader says in a democracy.
He proceeded to call it “unhealthy” when the leader is a “sociopath.”
“That shapes, unfortunately, millions of people in a harmful way,” Comey continued.
He said if President Joe Biden picks “great leaders, people who will radiate the values of the institution” it could re-establish trust.
“Donald Trump wasn’t in office long enough to change the culture of the FBI and the culture of the Justice Department. And so all the new leadership needs to do is let people be what’s already written on their hearts,” Comey said.