In April, 2018, Comey released a memoir, A Higher Loyalty, and conducted a prominent media tour, leading to further spikes in pulling a Comey and to Comey, including occasional new senses of “to profit off controversy. Here’s what he said after Comey’s ‘meddlesome priest’ remark: I was just going to quote that. Finally, to Comey also developed the meaning of “to fire someone for corrupt purposes,” in reference to his dramatic dismissal by Trump. Thanks to Donald Trump’s public disputes with Comey, to Comey also came to mean “to record or report problematic interactions with someone who may try to use events against them,” as Comey kept memos of his meetings with Trump. To Comey can mean “messing something up at the last moment,” as some believe Comey did to a Clinton victory in 2016. Second, to Comey (somebody)-drawing on a long history of verbing names (e.g., bork)-took on various senses starting in 2016. The phrase had evolved by 2017 to “making premature decisions based on faulty assumptions.” The slang follows the pull a (person’s name), or behave in manner characteristic of that person, dating back to the early 1900s. First, to pull a Comey emerged as political slang for “flip-flopping” or “reversing a charge” on Twitter in July, 2016 upon Comey’s first major public announcement. Thanks to his dramatic role in these scandals, Comey inspired a number of slang terms.
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Following a series of events many observers think amount to obstruction of justice, Trump notoriously fired Comey in May, 2017 citing criticism of how Comey handled the Clinton email inquiry. After Trump won office, the FBI began investigating the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia during the election.
While Comey claimed he made the public statements-uncharacteristic for the FBI and ongoing investigations more generally-to prevent charges of bias, many, including Clinton herself, blamed them for unduly tipping the election to Trump. Then, just weeks before Election Day in late October, Comey announced the FBI had reopened the case. In July, 2016, Comey issued a statement saying the FBI had closed an investigation into candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private-email server while she was Secretary of State. Comey mostly stayed out of the public spotlight until the 2016 US presidential election. After serving in the Clinton and Bush administrations, career attorney James Comey was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2013 as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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