{"id":101214,"date":"2018-07-18T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101214"},"modified":"2018-07-18T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T13:59:09","slug":"comey-anyone-voting-republican-this-fall-is-un-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101214","title":{"rendered":"Comey: Anyone Voting Republican This Fall Is Un-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/comey-face1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101215\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/comey-face1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/comey-face1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/comey-face1-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Former FBI Director James Comey suggested over Twitter on Tuesday that\u00a0<strong>anyone who votes Republican in the upcoming midterm elections is un-American.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ambition must &#8230; counteract ambition,&#8221; wrote Comey, adding &#8220;<strong>All who believe in this country\u2019s values must vote for Democrats this fall.<\/strong>\u00a0Policy differences don\u2019t matter right now. History has its eyes on us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This Republican Congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the Founders\u2019 design that \u201cAmbition must &#8230; counteract ambition.\u201d All who believe in this country\u2019s values must vote for Democrats this fall. Policy differences don\u2019t matter right now. History has its eyes on us.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Comey (@Comey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Comey\/status\/1019398962019819520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, any Republican who doesn&#8217;t vote Democrat in November doesn&#8217;t believe in American\u00a0values.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comey&#8217;s comments come on the heels of what some interpreted as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-07-16\/comey-calls-coup-patriots-needs-reject-behavior-president\">\u00a0a call for a coup<\/a>\u00a0against President Trump after the Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin, when he tweeted&#8221;This was the day an American president stood on foreign soil next to a murderous lying thug and refused to back his own country,&#8221; adding\u00a0&#8220;<strong>Patriots need\u00a0to stand up and reject the behavior of this president.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This was the day an American president stood on foreign soil next to a murderous lying thug and refused to back his own country.  Patriots need to stand up and reject the behavior of this president.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Comey (@Comey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Comey\/status\/1018965071786110976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some aren&#8217;t having Comey&#8217;s pontificating&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2015\/11\/zac-petkanas-hillary-clinton-rapid-response-staff-director-meth-methamphetamine-drug-charge-arrest-facebook-twitter-atlanta-photos\/\">Zac Petkanas<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; who is leading the DNC&#8217;s &#8220;war room&#8221; against President Trump, said &#8220;Dear @Comey &#8212; We don&#8217;t want you. Sincerely, The Democratic Party,&#8221; adding &#8220;<strong>He thinks it&#8217;s helpful for a witness in an obstruction of justice case against Donald Trump is out there campaigning for Democrats<\/strong>.\u00a0<u><strong>STFU<\/strong><\/u>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-07-17\/comey-anyone-voting-republican-fall-un-american\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-07-17\/comey-anyone-voting-republican-fall-un-american<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}