Former FBI Director James Comey was granted a 10-minute-long interview on the PBS News Hour Monday, ostensibly to discuss his new fiction thriller, but mostly to let host Geoff Bennett elicit condemnation of President Trump, in response to Comey’s indictment by the Department of Justice for his infamous, since-deleted 2025 Instagram post composed of seashells on the beach spelling out “86 47”, which could be interpreted as an assassination reference.The PBS anchor cannot consider that this spin can be applied to Trump: that all the lawfare was a punishment for winning the White House — and then for aiming to win it again.Bennett wondered why former attorney generals Merrick Garland (under Biden) and Bill Barr (under Trump) weren’t standing up for Comey, asking “What do you make of their silence?” Comey replied that it was “dangerous to use the Department of Justice in the way they used it in charging me or in going after John Brennan.”Former CIA Director John Brennan is hardly a Resistance hero; he allegedly lied to Congress regarding the debunked Steele Dossier, used to lay the groundwork for the phony accusation of Trump-Russia collusion. Brennan insisted on including the then-dubious, now wholly discredited document in the intelligence community’s official assessment, despite its scurrilous claims.Bennett got moralistic.The host prodded Comey from the left about his decision as FBI director to reopen the Hillary Clinton email investigation right before the 2016 election, which many Democrats claim handed the election to Trump. Bennett wondered if he was ridden with guilt over that decision.After Comey defended his decision, Bennett continued to relitigate a 10-year-old election.
PBS News Hour
5/18/26
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