WASHINGTON/BOSTON: President Donald Trump blasted ousted FBI chief James Comey as a "showboat" and "
grandstander" Thursday even as the agency's acting leader contradicted the president's account that the FBI had been in turmoil before he fired Comey.
Miss Sinclaire proves only that she is a
grandstander seeking to progress her ambition to be a Westminster cabinet minister.
Mr Darling will never be a Commons performer and
grandstander because, despite over 20 years as an MP and a decade as a Cabinet minister, he hasn't got the knack.
And while some have criticized Andre Matin for being a media
grandstander and publicity hog, it's unlikely he'd take offense at the suggestion.
Do you want to be with a
grandstander or do you want to be with somebody that has got a little bit of experience and stayed in investments?
Though Mayor James called him "a
grandstander," Booker proved to be that and more when he announced his support for school vouchers in 2001.
Locals on the scene wondered aloud if vonKleist was one of those who had been sent in there as an agent provocateur to discredit them, or if he was merely a
grandstander boosting his own ego.
Balcombe may be a hero to some house church Christians, but Aikman fails to mention that many fellow missionaries view him as a
grandstander who thumbs his nose at the government in ways that have had bad consequences for Chinese believers.
Many political analysts who had once regarded Jackson as a mere
grandstander, later admitted that Jackson would have given Bush a tougher battle for the presidency than Dukakis did.
He's not a big
grandstander, and doesn't go looking for ink.
In fact, colleagues in the Senate regard McCain as a mere
grandstander. They know that he already has a big war chest left over from his last Senatorial campaign, plus torrents of PAC money from the corporations that crave his indulgence as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.
McCain's plan calls for soft-money bans and strict hard-money limits, the better to end the "stain upon [politicians'] honor" that McCain says "shames me." Critics--especially fellow Senators--dismiss McCain as a self-righteous
grandstander, but his issue has hit a sweet spot with the American public.