n the course of an exchange with Maine senator Angus King, the ex-FBI boss was asked how he took it when the president said ‚I hope or I suggest‘ – ‚Do you take that as a directive?‘

Comey replied: ‚Yes. It rings in my ear as, well, will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest.‘

Apparently prepared for precisely that analogy, King replied: ‚I was just going to quote that, in 1179, December 27th, Henry II said, who will rid me of the meddlesome priest, and the next day, he was killed.“

‚Exactly the same situation. We‘re thinking along the same lines.‘