Nets Fawn for Comey Book Excerpts Blasting Trump, Apology for Angering Hillary

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 12, 2018
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The liberal media doesn’t appear to show any signs of whiplash due to their wild love/hate relationship with former FBI Director James Comey. He was obviously still in their good graces Thursday evening with the three major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and Spanish-language network Univision hyping reported excerpts from his soon to be released book A Higher Loyalty. The three touted how Comey “blasted” President Trump for being “unethical” and his apparent apology to Hillary Clinton.

Both CBS and NBC kicked off their programs with the news of the leaked passages from Comey’s book. “We are going to begin tonight with James Comey's response. In a new book, details of which are just out, the former FBI Director, fired a year ago by the president fires back, taking aim at everything from the President's actions to his appearance,” announced CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor.

CBS Justice correspondent Jeff Pegues focused in on Comey’s recollection about Trump’s attitude when briefed on the salacious Democrat funded dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele:

Comey says the president focused on one of the most salacious allegations in the dossier, that he Hadsell a sexual encounter in a Moscow hotel room. Comey writes, "Trump strongly denied the allegations, asking rhetorically, I assumed, whether he seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes."

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