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Comey: Country Would Probably Be Better Off With Hillary As President

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Former FBI director James Comey said in a Thursday night interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick that he thinks the country would probably be better off if Hillary Clinton were elected president.

During an earlier interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Comey declined to say if he thinks Clinton would have been a better president than Trump, stating, “I can’t answer that.”

He apparently later changed his mind, telling Remnick that he thinks the country would probably be better off with Clinton and that voters bear some responsibility for choosing Trump.

Comey also told Tapper that he doesn’t dislike Trump, which he says his wife was not happy about. He added that he feels sorry for Trump because, “he has an emptiness inside of him and a need for affirmation I’ve never seen in an adult.”

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