If President Donald Trump wins in 2020, former FBI Director James Comey said he will move to a "new home in New Zealand."
"I will be – from my new home in New Zealand – I still will believe in America," Comey joked to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace at Politicon's "Leadership & Politics," who asked what the fired FBI director would do if Trump won re-election in 2020.
President Trump has long decried that holdover members from the Obama administration did not want him in office and were working to unravel his presidency – a force he called the deep state. His critics have argued career government employees do not hold political bias.
Comey, a former head of the FBI that was investigating then candidate, and now President Trump, admits he wants to see a "change in the administration."
"I'm optimistic that even if there is not in impeachment proceeding, and a removal from office – whether or not that happens – the American people are going to pass judgment on what kind of country we want to be," Comey said.
Comey said common values are the "glue" that holds the United States together.
"We shouldn't exist: We don't have the normal human glue that holds a country together," Comey said. "We don't have common ancestry, language, faith. We have nothing in common except a set of values. That's the glue that holds Republicans, Democrats, Independents together.
"I think the American people are alert to the threat that is above our policy disagreements."
The Trump administration is reportedly nearing an end to the Justice Department's investigation into the investigators of the 2016 presidential election, along with an upcoming Inspector General's report.
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