The past 12 hours brought two very big revelations involving former FBI director James Comey, President Donald Trump and the Russia investigation, and they must be looked at side by side to fully grasp their collective importance.
First, the Comey memos. When you cut through all the noise, what they really reveal is a senior law enforcement official struggling to figure out in real time how to handle efforts by the president to turn him into a loyalist devoted to carrying out his political will in wildly inappropriate fashion. Comey’s memos recount in new detail that Trump repeatedly demanded his loyalty and that Trump pressed him to drop his probe into his then-national security adviser Michael Flynn.