Ignatius: ‘I Don’t Think That Comey Has Helped Himself a Lot with This Book’

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IGNATIUS: "I wrote back in June when he appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the big kind of circus of his testimony, this was 'Pilgrim’s Progress' meets 'House of Cards.' You know, you had this earnest moralist trying to make his case about a White House that by his own account was really out of 'Goodfellas.' And I think that this junction continues to this day. I don’t think that Comey has helped himself a lot with this book. He does deepen our picture of Donald Trump, a president who has really jumped the rails in American politics, but in terms of the fundamentals of this investigation, I would be surprised if the book makes as big a difference as we might have thought a month ago it would. There are so many new things that have happened. All the doors that have opened with the raid on Michael Cohen’s office and home, a whole series of things take this story into different space. But Comey remains, will always be in our national story of this, I think, the moralizer, the man who always talked in this language about Donald Trump, was shocked by Trump, could never figure out a way really to communicate with him.”