After recovering from the initial barrage, Comey claims that further salvos from Trump’s Twitter turret don’t pack the same punch. Apparently, he’s a battle-hardened veteran now, having survived a baptism by fire.
Oh boy.
Per the Washington Post:
The second stage is a kind of numbness, where it doesn’t seem quite real that the so-called Leader of the Free World is assailing you by tweet and voice,” Comey explains. “It is still unsettling, but it is harder to recapture the vertigo of the first assault.” This stage, he explains, offers one consolation: “the longer it goes on, the less it means.