James Comey publicly referred to the Republican Party as "white supremacist-adjacent"

Former FBI Director James Comey publicly referred to the Republican Party and its members as "white supremacist-adjacent" during an interview on left-wing network MSNBC on Saturday night. On the former White House press secretary's show during the past Joe Biden, Jen Psaki, Comey railed against the party and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, arguing that the current White House poses a risk to the country's democracy and a challenge to the legal system.

"One of the things that is happening now is that the Trump administration, of course, is testing the system in ways it hasn’t been tested before. In the law enforcement sense, do you think there are laws that should be put in place that would help better manage this, that aren’t in place now? I mean, are we equipped? Is the law enforcement system and the legal system equipped to deal with what we are seeing now?" Psaki asked.

"Probably there could be changes at the margins, but in the main we have the tools; there are cultural impediments to doing this work. "Let’s say you work in the FBI. You know that one of the two political parties is, let me put it nicely, 'white supremacist-adjacent,' at a minimum," Comey remarked caustically. "And so why would you wanna throw your career on that side of the line and be summoned to Capitol Hill to be asked why you’re pursuing these innocent groups. And so we have a cultural impediment to working it effectively that should get more attention than it does," Comey answered.

Comey has leveled similar accusations against Trump and Republicans in the past

Comey also accused the Republican Party of ignoring the country's democratic principles, adding that a future Democratic Party president could launch investigations against Trump administration officials. "I know Republicans these days aren’t big in thinking about principle or precedent; they’re gonna be deeply sorry that disappears because someday there’ll be a Democratic president and there will be investigations of Republican office holders. If I’m them (sic), I sure would want these career people in place making sure that it’s done in the right way," Comey commented.

Far from being the first time the former FBI director has issued such comments against Trump and his presidency, what is certain is that Comey, in 2019, went so far as to accuse the Republican leader of "stirring" racism in the country for political gain. “America has long had a radioactive racist soup in the center of our national life. Donald Trump thinks he is stirring it for political benefit. He’s actually doing something more dangerous.” He addressed Trump directly, and said, “You must stop trying to unleash and exploit the radioactive energy of racism," Comey wrote that year in a New York Times column.