This Case Shows How Comey Felt About Obstruction as a Prosecutor
Trump Reacts to Comey's Testimony in 60 Seconds
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Frank Quattrone, whisperer of the Nasdaq stock-market bubble, once confronted the same legal knot that has Washington riveted today: obstruction of justice. That was in 2003, just before a certain New York real estate developer began honing his TV catch phrase, “You’re fired!”
Turns out Quattrone and President Donald Trump have something in common: James Comey. In the 2000s it was Comey, in his days as a U.S. attorney, who went after Quattrone, the most powerful banker in Silicon Valley. And now it’s Comey, as former FBI director, who has publicly challenged Trump and, in the process, raised similar questions: Did someone obstruct justice here?