--- title: Why People Can't stop Laughing at James Comey's Tweets description: The photos that came with James Comey's Twitter response to the Mueller report are getting endlessly mocked on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/5558400/comey-mueller-memes/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-25T20:48:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:26:18.698Z og:title: James Comey Gets Roasted Mercilessly for Forest Photo og:description: "So many questions" og:url: https://time.com/5558400/comey-mueller-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10410fda287ed8e0/69894748929fad1858bf2ef2/jamescomeyonmuellermemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Former FBI Director James Comey Appears Before House Judiciary Cmte A Second Time og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: James Comey Gets Roasted Mercilessly for Forest Photo twitter:description: "So many questions" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt10410fda287ed8e0/69894748929fad1858bf2ef2/jamescomeyonmuellermemes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Can't Stop Laughing at James Comey's Introspective Responses to the Mueller Report > Sponsored content. 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Since his appointment in May of 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller racked up a lengthy record of court wins, but none of them answered some of the central questions the public had about his investigation._ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Mar 25, 2019 8:48 PM UTC Since his appointment in May of 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller racked up a lengthy record of court wins, but none of them answered some of the central questions the public had about his investigation. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Mar 25, 2019 8:48 PM UTC [James Comey’s](http://time.com/5482161/james-comey-slams-republican-party/) learning what happens when you get introspective on Twitter the hard way. Attorney General William Barr told Congress that the [Robert Mueller’s lengthy investigation](http://time.com/5557315/mueller-report-trump/) did not conclude that President Donald Trump or anyone associated with the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to interfere with the 2016 election. But as for whether the President obstructed justice, the Special Counsel decided “not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgement.” That left Democrats clamoring for answers from Barr. It looks like that also left the former FBI director still with outstanding questions of his own, and so on Sunday, he posted some tweets to that effect. Here’s the first one of him taking an interval of reflection, lost in that deep thought as he looks outward on a sun-dappled cliff for soul searching. “Geologic time offers useful perspective,” he wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1109547306175463424) Here’s the second tweet along with the a photo of Comey staring up at the natural wonders of a sunlit forest. > [](https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1109930531389472768) “So many questions,” it read. Of course the pictures quickly set off jokes as Twitterati came in full force with the clapbacks. See a sampling below. > [](https://twitter.com/DPD%5F/status/1110190332006801408) > [](https://twitter.com/jenniferemorrow/status/1110053927020646400) > [](https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1110000425829351424) > [](https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1110177310949412864) > [](https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1110145539679637504) > [](https://twitter.com/jenniferemorrow/status/1110053927020646400) > [](https://twitter.com/xX%5Fniceguy%5FXx/status/1109935634897141761) > [](https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1110292845171216385) It’s not the first time the former fed has showed his love of nature. When he first officially joined in 2017, he tweeted “Beautiful fall day at West Point. Lone kayaker on the Hudson,” alongside a picture of himself kayaking solo. > [](https://twitter.com/Comey/status/920783485413060608) ## Transcript [00:01] By any standard, Special Counsel Robert Mueller [00:04] moved fast and got results. The former FBI director's [00:08] probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, [00:11] lasted 22 months, far shorter than similar [00:13] investigations into Iran- Contra and Whitewater. [00:17] Mueller also racked up court wins, indicting, convicting [00:20] or getting guilty pleas from 34 people and three [00:23] companies. The list includes top advisers to President [00:26] Donald Trump, Russian spies and hackers with ties to [00:29] the Kremlin. His team uncovered other potential crimes [00:33] that it referred to career prosecutors, including illegal [00:36] foreign lobbying and hush money payments made by [00:38] Trump to a porn star. As his last order of business, [00:42] Mueller turned in a report on everything his team [00:44] uncovered in its investigation. But even before the [00:47] findings of the report are made public, it's clear that [00:50] the probe [00:59] was successful. 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