Following her termination as a federal prosecutor, Maurene Comey called on her colleagues to condemn ‘abuses of power’.Maurene Comey — the daughter of James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — has condemned President Donald Trump shortly after being fired from her role as a federal prosecutor in the United States.
In a memo to colleagues obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, Comey wrote that, if a “career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain”.
“Do not let that happen,” she said. “Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”
The memo came one day after Comey was let go from her role as an assistant US attorney in New York for the Department of Justice.
The Trump administration has not yet provided a reason for Comey’s firing. But her position had long been seen as vulnerable due to her association with her father, who oversaw an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential race.
The elder Comey was fired by Trump early in his first term, but the former FBI director has remained the subject of the president’s ire.
In congressional testimonies as well as a 2018 book, James Comey has decried Trump’s “unet …
