Rep. Pete King Monday said he's "very skeptical" that former FBI Director James Comey could not remember as many details as he claims to have forgotten during this testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week.
"On the Intelligence Committee Jim Comey testified before us any number of times," the New York Republican told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "I never recall him not being able to answer a question. He has almost a photographic memory, a great capacity for detail. It is hard for me to believe that all those questions he didn't recall, didn't remember."
During his testimony, Comey responded that he either did not know or didn't remember to dozens of questions about the ongoing probe into Russian collusion, and King said he found that suspicious.
"I don't want to be judging his motives, but I'm very skeptical," said King. "I was not in the room but I am skeptical that a person of his ability and legal ability was unable to remember the answers to all those questions."
King added that in the past, he "had a regard" for Comey, but over the last year, "he became almost a partisan hack for the Democrats" and that is "unbecoming" for a former FBI director.
"I don't blame the president for being outraged by all this," said King. "Comey began an investigation unprecedented investigation into a presidential campaign under the flimsiest of details to me, which never would have warranted an investigation. Now they're admitting they found nothing of any collusion. Whatever contacts there were it's not that uncommon."
In addition, the Trump campaign rejected the overtures from Russia, so "this was a baseless investigation to begin with," said King. "He is losing whatever credibility he had. I can say a lot of what he is saying publicly is different from what he told us privately."
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