When he was merely sixteen years old, a gunman – probably the Ramsey Rapist – broke into the home of his family, holding him and his younger brother Pete at gunpoint and stealing whatever he was able to find.Ĭomey was all but sure that this was going to be the last day of his life. One with which Trump tried to punish him for choosing “ A Higher Loyalty” instead of a more personal one.īut, James Comey was always going to be someone serving a higher law.

He didn’t expect that to happen, but, nevertheless, he expects that, in time, justice will prevail, and enough evidence will be found to prove that his dismissal was merely the final act of a long list of subtle actions with which the President tried obstructing justice. Trump wanted to learn from Comey if he was under an investigation concerning Russia’s meddling in the US 2016 elections, and James told him that he wasn’t.Īfter this, Trump uttered an ominous sentence: On January 27, 2017, just two or three weeks after first meeting Trump, James Comey, then Director of the FBI, dined alone with the President at the White House. “A Higher Loyalty” is Comey’s first and, so far, only book. In the meantime, James Comey was responsible for opening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as a Secretary of State, which reopened merely days before the elections many believe that this had a decisive impact on the close race between the two candidates. James Comey is an American lawyer and former Director of the FBI.Ī registered Republican, he was appointed to the position by Barack Obama in 2013, four years before being dismissed by President Donald Trump. So, this makes “A Higher Loyalty” an even more appealing read and everyone eager to find out more about the US 2016 Presidential Race and everything after shouldn’t miss this one for the world. However, “A Higher Loyalty” is a bit different than all of them, since it comes from a life-long Republican appointed Director of FBI by a Democrat and fired from the position by another Republican – the very same – most people would say – he had indirectly helped to claim the presidency. We’ve already provided you with a couple of summaries of books which offer an inspecting behind-the-scenes look at Washington’s inner workings, most recently John McCain’s “ The Restless Wave” and Ben Rhodes’ “ The World as It Is. Now, we have the summary! Who Should Read “A Higher Loyalty”? And Why? Which is why “ A Higher Loyalty ,” James Comey’s part memoir, part book-length discussion of ethics and leadership, was so eagerly awaited. On May 9, 2017, that very same Trump dismissed Comey from his position. In the view of everybody, he was the man who won Trump his presidency. Some celebrated him as a hero others reviled him as a villain. After the Hillary Clinton email controversy, James Comey, then Director of FBI, became a household name in most American homes.

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