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Ex-FBI chief James Comey says he will move to New Zealand if Trump wins in 2020
- He joins a long line of prominent Americans to float the idea of emigrating to New Zealand as a way to escape Trump’s chaotic presidency
- Immigration to New Zealand hit a record high in mid-2017 with many seeing the country as a refuge from the likes of Brexit
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The former FBI director James Comey has joked – or not – that he will move to New Zealand if Donald Trump is re-elected in 2020.
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Comey was interviewed on C-Span and asked what he would do if Trump was returned to office. “From my new home in New Zealand, I still will believe in America,” Comey said, to laughter from the audience.
The former FBI boss worked for the Obama administration and was fired by Trump in May 2017, fuelling concerns for the bureau’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election. The comment was apparently made in jest but he joins a long line of prominent Americans to float the idea of emigrating to New Zealand as a way to escape Trump’s chaotic presidency.
Relocating to the nation has become something of an obsession for Silicon Valley billionaires who fear the apocalypse is looming. Immigration to New Zealand hit a record high in mid-2017 with many seeing the politically stable country as a refuge from the likes of Brexit and a divided America.
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