11 May 2017 10:33 pm
The Holocaust, and the Armenian and Rwandan genocides were atrocities.White House: Comey committed 'atrocities' during his time as FBI director.
White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Wednesday that former FBI Director James Comey committed "atrocities" while he led the bureau that she said spurred President Donald Trump to fire him on Tuesday.
Sanders said that although Trump as a candidate had expressed support for Comey's decisions about the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, the letter he received Tuesday from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions outlining "the basic atrocities" Comey committed "in circumventing the chain of command of the Department of Justice" persuaded him to fire Comey.
Even if you use the dictionary definition of the word, it doesn't fit.
(an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury)
Comey did NOT commit any atrocities.
Basic or otherwise.