The humor of James Comey
The former FBI director’s memoir captures the absurdity of the Trump era
5 min readApr 30, 2018
James Comey’s memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, opens with an amusing anecdote. It’s February 2017, and the then-FBI director is in a black SUV headed to Capitol Hill for a classified briefing on Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. The mood in the car is…