Former FBI Director Jim Comey joined John Berman on CNN on Wednesday to discuss his new book.
During their discussion Comey continued his lies that he didn’t know what 8647 meant.
Last week Comey posted a photo of seashells he said he ran across lined up perfectly in an 8647 arrangement.
Comey told the CNN audience on Wednesday that the “seashell thing” is a bit of a distraction.
Comey’s book also happens to be about a ‘right-wing extremist’ who is making threats that may lead to violence.
Funny, how that lines up perfectly with his seashell threats against President Trump!
Jim Comey: Actually, it still doesn’t (hit me), that it’s (8647) associated with violence.
John Berman: It still doesn’t, even though people have pointed it out, that it has been used in that context?
Jim Comey: Yeah, I’ve never seen it used in that context or heard it used in that context. Still…
John Berman: How was your interview with the Secret Service about this?
Jim Comey: Oh, good. They’re total pros. I’ve worked with Secret Service for many, many years, and they asked the right questions, trying to understand why I did it. We had a very similar conversation to the one you and I just had.
John Berman: Did you leave thinking that they believed you, or did you leave thinking they still had concerns?
Jim Comey: Well, I don’t have any reason to believe they don’t believe me. And so I feel like they asked
the right questions, and I can’t imagine there’ll be any more on it.
John Berman: Your book is about protected speech when protected speech becomes political violence. Is that a fair way to characterize it? It’s about an extreme podcaster who talks about things, and then there are acts of political violence.
Jim Comey: Right. It’s about a right-wing extremist trying to motivate followers to violence through his words in his broadcast.
John Berman: It’s interesting that your book is about that, and now there is this discussion about speech, things said, and whether it can be motivating toward violence. Yes?
Jim Comey: Yeah, not interesting to me. A bit of a distraction, actually. But The book’s about an important question. I don’t see the seashell thing as an important issue, but I hope folks will read the book and see that it’s a great thriller, but it’s also about things that are important and current.
John Berman: How challenging is it to write political fiction now when it seems like almost every sensational political event that could happen has happened in real life?
Jim Comey: Yeah, and some of the stuff that goes on, a journalist being invited to a signal chat. If you put it in your novel, your editor would say, Come on, cut that out. This is fiction, but it’s got to be real. So truth continues to surprise and be stranger than fiction. I’m trying to write very real fiction, so show people.
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