By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
Donald Trump fired back at James Comey on Friday after the former FBI director in his new memoir likened the president to a mob boss – dangerous, dishonest and a bully.
Trump, as expected, lashed out on Twitter, calling Comey “a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI.”
James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR,” Trump tweeted shortly after 8 a.m. “Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst ‘botch jobs’ of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!”
Republicans have been planning on launching an attack campaign on Comey’s credibility before details of the book were released.
Trump fired Comey in May, prompting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint special counsel Robert Mueller.
In the book, Comey described Trump’s presidency as a “forest fire” that threatens to undermine the nation’s values and norms.
