In an opinion piece in Bloomberg, Leonid Bershidsky
suggested that the Comey scandal undermines the United States' position as a global leader. He writes: The so-called Trump-Russia scandal is eating the U.S. from the inside, undermining the country's global role at least as much as President Donald Trump's erratic moves do. The firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James B. Comey is another dent in the U.S. leadership of the Western world. … It makes the U.S. democracy look weak and unstable as one European country after another shows it can successfully resist populist challenges like Trump's
