GOP Rep Likens FBI Probe Of Trump To A ‘Coup’: ‘Absolutely Disgraceful’

Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) seized on a White House talking point — that reports of the FBI investigating whether President Trump was working for Russia prove Trump was right about the deep state — and took it a step further Monday: “that’s almost like a coup.”

During an interview with Fox News on Monday, King called news of the probe “absolutely disgraceful.”

“From what I’ve seen and heard, if this is true, what the FBI did is absolutely disgraceful,” King said. “They have been investigating the Trump campaign from the summer of 2016. Absolutely nothing, zero has come up involving President Trump. James Comey told that to the president. The reason President Trump fired Comey was Comey refused to say that publicly, that the President was not under investigation.”

According to the New York Times report on Friday, the FBI began exploring whether Trump might be working at Russia’s behest after he fired Comey.

“For the FBI to use that firing, that legitimate firing, as an excuse to launch an investigation of the President of the United States, as to whether or not he was a spy, that’s almost like a coup within the government,” King continued. “I mean that is absolutely disgraceful.”

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  1. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    A King of course–I knew it had to be either Steve or Peter.

  2. And here I was, thinking Louie Gohmert was the stupidest member of congress.

  3. Avatar for sooner sooner says:

    Hey numbnutz…if you and your fellow caucus members are unwilling to look into something this obvious then SOMEONE has to do it.

    We’re talking defending America from being played by a foreign enemy. Or at least that what you would have squealed like a stuck pig about when Obama was being presidential…

  4. King is one of my ancestral names, with a long history of great Americans. These guys must be from a different branch. Sad.

  5. This guy. All you have to do is look at that head, and that’s the whole story right there. Rectangular, like a canned ham with a hairpiece. Dude like this sits down next to you on a plane and you say “Here we go” and bury your face in the Skymall magazine for the whole flight, because somewhere between the fifth and seventh word he’ll start up about the liberal Democrats. Stupid, stupid man, always was, always will be.

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