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Commentary: Comey is an honest man, but his memoir is a big mistake

Sigh. James Comey is starting to remind me of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. And I don’t mean that as a compliment, even though I served as a foreign policy adviser to Rubio’s presidential campaign.

In late February 2016, after finishing behind candidate Donald Trump in a few early primaries, Rubio got desperate. Trump was mocking his height by calling him “Little Marco,” so the senator decided to retaliate by making fun of Trump’s “small hands” and his “spray tan.” Rubio elicited laughs at a campaign rally by saying: “You know what they say about guys with small hands.