Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” former Bush adviser and Fox News Channel contributor Karl Rove predicted former FBI Director James Comey, who Rove described as a “hot dog,” will try to play the role of the most honest man in Washington, D.C. in an open hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week.
However, Rove said if indeed President Donald Trump had asked Comey to do anything improper, Comey should have made mention of it to his superiors at the Department of Justice at the time.
“I’ll apply a scientific term — he’s a hot dog,” Rove said. “Yeah look, he’s going to show up, and my suspicion is he is going to say the president brought this up and I was offended by this. Well, the fact of the matter is if he was offended, he should have said, ‘I think that’s inappropriate.’ Or he should have said to the attorney general ‘I think that’s inappropriate.’ But it wasn’t inappropriate, and he didn’t say it. And sanctimoniously and in retrospect, I suspect we’re going to see James Comey play the role he loves to play the most, which is the only honest man in Washington, D.C.”
“But it’s all going to be retrospectively,” he added. “At the time, he didn’t say anything to the president. He didn’t say anything directly to his superior at the Department, Rod Rosenstein. He didn’t say anything to his ultimate boss at the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions.”
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