- Former FBI director James Comey said his first thought after he read a letter from the White House telling him he had been fired was: “That’s crazy. How could that be?”
- Comey was in Los Angeles at the time and said that as he flew back to Washington, he drank red wine out of a paper coffee cup while looking “out at the lights of the country I love so much.”
- As the plane came close to landing, Comey said he asked the pilots if he could sit in the cockpit with them and watch the flight land.
- At the end, he recalled, they all shook hands “with tears in our eyes” before he got off the plane and was driven home.
Former FBI director James Comey’s first thought when he found out he’d been fired last year: “How could that be?”
He made the revelation during a one-hour interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos ahead of the widely anticipated release of his book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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