The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, issued a blistering statement accusing former FBI Director James Comey of "tremendous corruption" after he criticized Republican lawmakers for not standing up to President Donald Trump's treatment of the FBI. "Republicans should stand up to Comey and his tremendous corruption - from the fake Hillary Clinton investigation, to lying and leaking, to FISA abuse, and a list too long to name," Sanders said in a tweet on Monday night. "The President did the country a service by firing him and exposing him for the shameless fraud he is."