Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Trump Didn't Have Any Friends in the Room With Comey

No Republican "broke with" the president. But none of them really did much to support him, either.

June 8, 2017 at 6:40 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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It was a riveting display of political fireworks, complete with a fired FBI director accusing his former boss of lying about why he was fired. Comey also said he had to take special precautions with Trump in large part because the president can't be trusted to tell the truth. Devastating.

But the core of James Comey's testimony was built upon the question of obstruction of justice, for which he had a clear and, basically, uncontested story: