{"id":46157,"date":"2026-10-27T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=46157"},"modified":"2026-10-27T22:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:59:51","slug":"try-try-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/27\/try-try-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Try, Try Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"teaser-content\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QJDTTKHYTZA3BAEFMSAPZQIQWY\" data-el=\"text\">President Trump surely knows this just makes him look pathetic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QJDTTKHYTZA3BAEFMSAPZQIQWY\" data-el=\"text\">The Justice Department has again charged James B. Comey, the third time the Trump administration has mounted a criminal case against the former FBI director \u2014 a prominent political foe of the president \u2014 since last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QJDTTKHYTZA3BAEFMSAPZQIQWY\" data-el=\"text\">This time, federal prosecutors charged Comey with two counts alleging that he leaked sensitive government material to the media in 2016 when he was FBI director. Comey was <a class=\"js-itid-click\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation\/2017\/05\/09\/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation\/2017\/05\/09\/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">fired<\/a>\u00a0by President Donald Trump the following year. He has since become\u00a0<a class=\"js-itid-click\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2025\/comey-trump-indictment-clashes\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2025\/comey-trump-indictment-clashes\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">a staunch critic<\/a> of Trump and the Justice Department\u2019s actions during his second term.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/10\/26\/justice-dept-charges-james-comey-ex-fbi-director-third-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QJDTTKHYTZA3BAEFMSAPZQIQWY\" data-el=\"text\">Or maybe not. Mental illness can make it difficult to understand how your audience, whether it&#8217;s the spouse or the entire nation, sees you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump surely knows this just makes him look pathetic. The Justice Department has again charged James B. Comey, the third time the Trump administration has mounted a criminal case against the former FBI director \u2014 a prominent political foe of the president \u2014 since last year. This time, federal \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/27\/try-try-again\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46165,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157\/revisions\/46165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}