Texas’ U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is on President Donald Trump’s shortlist to replace James Comey as FBI director, a politically perilous posting at a fraught moment in American political history.
Cornyn, 65, a member of Senate leadership as majority whip who is as establishment and predictable a political figure as the president is an unpredictable political outsider, didn’t rule out accepting the job if it were offered.
But in a single sentence statement released by his office he said, “I have the distinct privilege of serving 28 million Texans in the United States Senate, and that is where my focus remains.”
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