‘Atrocities in Circumventing the Chain of Command in the Department of Justice’
James Comey had committed “atrocities” as Director of the FBI, according to White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wednesday afternoon. Sanders made her remarks in an attempt to describe why President Donald Trump fired James Comey on Tuesday.
Claiming that as a candidate for president Donald Trump made statements in support of Jim Comey that should not be attached to him once he became president, Huckabee Sanders said “there’s a very clear distinction between those two things.”
“I think also having a letter like the one he received,” Huckabee Sanders said of the recommendation from the DOJ that Comey be fired, “and having that conversation that outlined the basic, just, atrocities in circumventing the chain of command in the Department of Justice,” she added, to support the decision to fire the FBI Director.
She concluded that “any person of legal mind and authority knows what a big deal that is, particularly in the Department of Justice.”
In speaking about the chain of command Huckabee Sanders was referring to the announcement Comey made in July effectively clearing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of any actionable wrongdoing by stating he was recommending she not be charged.
On Twitter, many were outraged by the use of the word “atrocities.”
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