{"id":74502,"date":"2017-06-08T06:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74502"},"modified":"2017-06-08T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T10:47:37","slug":"trump-greets-comey-hes-become-more-famous-than-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74502","title":{"rendered":"Trump greets Comey: &#8216;He&#8217;s become more famous than me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pres. Trump greets FBI Director James Comey during First Responders ceremony at the White House: &quot;He&#39;s become more famous than me.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Rdgyqi1iM\">pic.twitter.com\/9Rdgyqi1iM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/823276961044852736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>President \u00a0greeted FBI Director James Comey during a reception for law enforcement at the White House on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, the president singled out Comey, who approached the president, shook his hand and gave him a hug.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s become more famous than me,&#8221; the president joked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pres. Donald Trump greets FBI Director James Comey at the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IeAhhAOopy\">https:\/\/t.co\/IeAhhAOopy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EQKUb2tKul\">pic.twitter.com\/EQKUb2tKul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/823279973851086853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The president had in the past attacked Comey and the intelligence community, accusing it of leaking an unverified dossier alleging Russia had compromising information on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The president also thanked the law enforcement officers for doing such a good job during his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>He said the event had been &#8220;such a success, a safety success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump went to the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters on Saturday, where he blasted reporters and affirmed his support for the nation\u2019s intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, he tweeted that he had a &#8220;great&#8221; meeting at the CIA headquarters with &#8220;amazing people,&#8221; calling it a &#8220;win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/315568-trump-greets-comey-at-white-house-hes-become-more-famous-than-me\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/315568-trump-greets-comey-at-white-house-hes-become-more-famous-than-me<\/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-74502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74502","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=74502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}