Rand Paul says he won’t listen to James Comey because he is a ‘notorious liar’ who should ‘be imprisoned’

Sen. Rand Paul downplayed remarks by former FBI Director James Comey that the Republican Party needs to change, saying that he would not listen to the advice of someone that should “be imprisoned.”

“I don’t plan on listening to anything from Comey,” Paul said when asked about Comey’s remarks by Fox News’s Bill Hemmer. “In fact, I think Comey should be imprisoned for the things that he did.”

Paul’s remarks came after Hemmer read the Kentucky senator comments Comey made to the Guardian, in which Comey said that “the Republican Party needs to be burned down” and needed a break between the “Trumpist and those people who want to try and build a responsible conservative party because everybody should know that we need one.”

“Who would want to be part of an organization that, at its core, is built on lies and racism and know-nothingism?” Comey said, according to Hemmer.

“When we start taking advice from Comey, a notorious liar, a guy who ruined the FBI, a guy who used the enormous power of government to go after his political opponent, Donald Trump, I think when we start taking his advice, we’re taking the wrong advice,” Paul responded.

Comey had a tumultuous run as the head of the FBI, finding himself in the public spotlight during the Hillary Clinton email scandal. He was back in the spotlight again at the end of the 2016 election, revealing that the investigation had been reopened after the discovery of more emails on the computer of former Rep. Anthony Weiner between his wife, Huma Abedin, and Clinton.

Comey was also involved in the Russia collusion investigation of President Donald Trump, in which some blamed him for what they said was an illegal warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign obtained with faulty FISA applications.

Comey was fired by Trump just months into his term in office and has since become a frequent critic of the Trump administration.