Comey on Clinton tweet: ‘I regret only being involved in the 2016 election’
Former FBI director James Comey on Sunday called a tweet by Hillary Clinton mocking his actions leading up to the 2016 election “pretty funny” adding that he understood why she sent the jab.
Comey last week tweeted a photo of himself in a t-shirt reading “Elect More Women” on the centennial of the 19th Amendment.
In response, the former secretary of state tweeted a GIF of herself looking bemused during a 2016 interview, in reference to Comey’s letter one week before the election announcing new developments in the investigation of her private email server. Clinton has suggested she believes reopening the investigation cost her the election.
{mosads}”I think it is pretty funny, and I get why she would send something like that. She’s better at Twitter than I am,” Comey rold CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “I regret only being involved in the 2016 election. We were stuck and I think we made the right decisions, choosing between terrible options. I wasn’t trying, nor was anybody else in the FBI, trying to elect or not elect anybody.”
“I hope more women get elected to office,” he concluded. “I’m proud of that shirt that my daughters and my wife gave me, and I think it’s time for more women to be leaders in this country, we’ll all be better off.”
Comey also addressed U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the origin of the FBI probe into President Trump’s 2016 campaign, and former CIA director John Brennan’s statement that he is not a target in the probe.
Asked by CBS’ Margaret Brennan whether he believed he himself was a target, Comey responded “I can’t imagine that I’m a target…They just want to have an investigation to talk about.”