JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump fired James Comey as the head of the FBI. He has described Comey as a liar and a leaker. He has said he did the country a favor by firing Comey. And on Sunday [12-9-18], this from Trump’s Twitter feed: ‘Leakin’ James Comey must have set a record for who lied the most to Congress in one day. His Friday testimony was so untruthful! This whole deal is a Rigged Fraud headed up by dishonest people who would do anything so that I could not become President. They are now exposed!’ But just hours after Trump’s tweet, even Comey himself admitted that, against his better judgment, he has grown sort of numb to all of Trump’s taunts…What Comey is tapping into is the sort of survival mentality that is the sort of de facto approach to the Trump presidency. Trump says and does so many things that are abnormal — not just for politicians but for people — that it is impossible to properly contextualize all of it. The mind reels. And the response is often to laugh, roll your eyes and move on. It’s a coping mechanism — and even James Comey uses it.”
–Chris Cillizza, “Even James Comey is numb to all of this,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, December 10, 2018 7:41 pm