James Comey says "Cash is King"
The kind of DC grifter threatened by DOGE.
Here's a real estate oddity: FBIster James Comey bought this McLean VA house in 2007 for over $2.1 million (where did that money come from?) and sold it at a loss in 2011 for $1.7 million. (It's for rent this summer for $9000 a month.)
Despite having lost money on that sale, in 2017 the Comey’s bought a $4 million house that was bank owned after a foreclosure for just under $3 million. Also in McLean, it's now worth close to $4 million. The Comey’s have their names redacted from the online property tax records.
According to online property tax records, they bought it all cash. Where did the money come from?
Comey has written a book on his life in DC that sold over 600,000 copies. One suspects it was mainly purchased by university and public libraries and that most copies were unread. He’s also written a handfull of crime novels focused on right-wing domestic terrorism. Who buys that crap?
Comey is also a speaker for hire with the Washington Speaker’s Bureau, through which he is raking in millions, charging 6 figure speaking fees.
But two questions remain:
Comey started raking in all this money in 2018, after Trump fired him from the FBI and he wrote his memoir. But he bought his house in 2017? Where did the money come from?
I don’t know anyone who read Comey or went to one of his speeches. I have to google to see that they happened. And the people paying him 6 figure speaking fees are universities and NGOs. In other words, your tax dollars (and your kids’ tuition dollars) are funneled to Deep State grifters like Comey to give them a posh lifestyle after they are thrown out of government “service.”
Is there any bigger argument for DOGE and defunding the Deep State ASAP?
They never go away, do they?