Some people may not believe everything he said during the hearings (and yet simultaneously and inexplicably claim his words serve as vindication), but these words come from a patriot who loves his country deeply.
The sad thing is that, in terms of actual wordsmithing, I can’t think of anything that Trump has said as President that is as clear, forceful, and inspiring as this, and Comey managed to say these words in the midst of questioning before the Senate.
It was kind of fantastic.
Of course, you need a basic understanding of history to make speeches like this, and I am quite confident Trump wouldn’t understand Comey’s references to “a shining city on a hill” and “this great experiment.”
A basic lack of knowledge makes it very difficult to say smart things.
- The man thought Frederick Douglass was still alive.
- He asked a Women’s Empowerment Panel if they knew who Susan B. Anthony was.
- He could not explain the nuclear triad.
- He thought NATO was funded through monies paid to the organization.
- He claimed that Andrew Jackson had profound thoughts about the Civil War and its prevention, even though Jackson died 16 years before the war broke out and owned slaves himself.
And he spoke this gem about Abraham Lincoln:
“Great president. Most people don’t even know he was a Republican. Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that.”
Since the Republican Party constantly refers to itself as “the party that Lincoln founded,” I suspect most people already knew that Lincoln was a Republican, but apparently not the current leader of that political party.
