On his May 9, 2017 Fox News show , Tucker Carlson said former FBI Director Comey had elected official on both sides of aisle too frightened to challenge him publically.

Transcript from 2:59:

"What this firing ought to remind us is that ultimately real power in a democracy resides with the voters. When unaccountable forces, whether they're at the CIA or Planned Parenthood or Exxon or the Department of Justice start making our biggest public policy decisions, we risk losing our democracy. Dictatorship by the unelected -- that is the real threat to this country and our traditions.

Let's be honest; this firing of James Comey was overdue and everybody in Washington knows that...Comey was too eccentric to run the FBI and too powerful for any of us to breathe easily while he was there.

Just how powerful was James Comey? Let's put it this way: he was feared in a way that no appointed bureaucrat should ever be feared in a free society. Time and again elected lawmakers on both sides came on this show and expressed worry and concern about his behavior but they did so only during commercial breaks with the cameras off. Why? Because they were terrified at the prospect of criticizing him in public.

They certainly don't have that fear of the sitting president of the United States, and that tells you everything you need to know about Jim Comey."

Gee, I wonder why lawmakers would be too terrified to criticize the FBI Director?