The book also happens to be - like Fire and Fury - a devastating character study of President Donald Trump, who Comey served until Trump unceremoniously fired him in May 2017. His book, for the most part, is an exploration and exhortation of principles that are universal: truth, integrity, order, and protecting those who are weak or struggling. (Email us if you spot errors we should fact-check.) That’s in contrast to some of the botched details in journalist Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury account of life in the White House.Īnd rather than deploy a boatload of factual details, Comey sticks to the big picture outlines of a traditional memoir. Dates check out, titles are accurate, his recounting of events follows widely reported and accepted benchmarks. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership is Comey’s story of what he did and why.įrom a fact-checking point of view, there isn’t much to debunk.
Now James Comey wants to explain himself. It was a perplexing contradiction for someone who said he was apolitical and above the fray.
election and potential connections to the Donald Trump campaign. Later, we learned that Comey was keeping to himself the beginnings of an investigation into Russia’s active interference in the U.S. In 2016, as the director of the FBI, James Comey publicly dissected Hillary Clinton’s email server controversy.
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