Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, told her former colleagues in an email that her sudden firing should “fuel the fire” of their work fighting abuses of power.

Comey, a veteran federal prosecutor who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein case, was fired as President Trump seeks to downplay reaction to the matter.

WASHINGTON: Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey who as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan worked on cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, said in a note to colleagues that “fear is the tool of a tyrant” and that her firing without reason should fuel “a fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.

The Justice Department ousted Maurene Comey, the daughter of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey.