Sunny Hostin defended former FBI Director James Comey, calling him “an honorable man” and saying that the RNC’s Lyin Comey website amounted to a “hit job,” during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday.
Hostin was responding to what she alleged was a concerted effort by Republicans to undermine Comey’s credibility in advance of his book’s release next Tuesday.
A former federal prosecutor herself, Hostin said that she was personally offended by the Republican party’s willingness to attack a man she said was just a “public servant.”
“They’re doing a hit job on Comey. I myself, having worked at the Justice Department, I thought he was an honorable leader. I think that when you have the President of the United States and Republicans trying to take down our law enforcement institutions of the United States, I am horrified by that. It was one of the best jobs I ever had. I was a public servant, I made very little money, but I was representing the people of the United States much like all of these people. So I am really disgusted that the RNC now has a website called ‘Lyin Comey’…”
Hostin continued to attack the website, which features prominent Democrats questioning Comey’s credibility, and defend Comey. “This is a man who is a war-decorated Marine, a Vietnam War decorated Marine, former FBI Director, former Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney. The suggestion somehow that people will believe these horrible things about him because Donald Trump is saying them is shocking to me.”