{"id":46297,"date":"2025-09-27T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/46297\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:31:06","slug":"how-trump-and-comeys-relationship-soured-years-before-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/46297\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump and Comey&#8217;s relationship soured years before indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making false statements to a Senate committee in 2020, though he maintains he is innocent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">US President Donald Trump has welcomed the indictment against a high-profile figure who has long drawn his ire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\"> But years ago, Trump was once fond of Comey. The BBC&#8217;s Bernd Debusmann looks back at how the pair&#8217;s relationship soured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making false statements to a Senate committee in 2020,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-46297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}