{"id":73145,"date":"2017-05-24T14:38:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T18:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73145"},"modified":"2017-05-24T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T18:39:10","slug":"trump-threatened-by-friend-of-comey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73145","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatened By &#8216;Friend&#8217; Of Comey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\">Comey &#8216;Friend&#8217; Warns Trump &#8220;If I Were You, I&#8217;d Be Scared&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>First it was anonymous colleagues, then his dad, and now it&#8217;s a &#8216;friend&#8217; of Jim Comey that CNN reports the fired FBI director has a story to tell, adding that he would be scared if he were President Trump.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/05\/23\/20170524_comey.jpg\" width=\"549\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/334878-comey-friend-if-i-were-trump-i-would-be-scared\"><em>As The Hill reports,<\/em><\/a> Benjamin Wittes, who describes himself as a Comey confidant, said on CNN when asked how Comey was doing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;He&#8217;s going to be fine. <strong>He&#8217;s not somebody who spends time feeling sorry for himself,&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was interesting and very telling that he declined an opportunity to tell his story in private. He clearly wants to do it in a public setting,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s a reflection of the fact that this is a guy with a story to tell. I think if I were Donald Trump that would scare me a lot.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes days after a report said Comey is expected to testify that he believes Trump was deliberately trying to meddle in the FBI&#8217;s investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders how long until Ray Dalio, Comey&#8217;s former boss, and until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-12-20\/ray-dalio-praises-trump-predicts-huge-changes-it-will-be-glorious-be-rich\">recently a fan of Donald Trump<\/a>, is also asked to comment (off the record) on the upcoming Pay Per View show\u00a0 of the century, as Comey finally sits down to &#8220;clear the air.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-05-24\/comey-friend-reportedly-warns-trump-if-i-were-you-id-be-scared\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-05-24\/comey-friend-reportedly-warns-trump-if-i-were-you-id-be-scared<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comey &#8216;Friend&#8217; Warns Trump &#8220;If I Were You, I&#8217;d Be Scared&#8221;<\/p>\n","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-73145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73145","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=73145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}