By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
President Trump fired back at James Comey on Monday after the fired FBI director slammed Trump on national television, comparing him to a mob boss who is “morally unfit to be president.”
On Twitter, Trump’s favorite platform for hyperbole, the president suggested Comey and fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe “committed many crimes,” a claim
“Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G), then based his decisions on her poll numbers. Disgruntled, he, McCabe, and the others, committed many crimes!” Trump tweeted Monday morning, a day after Comey appeared on ABC’s 20/20 with a litany of accusations against the president.
Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G), then based his decisions on her poll numbers. Disgruntled, he, McCabe, and the others, committed many crimes!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2018
On Friday morning, a day after details of Comey’s memoir, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,” were reported by the media, Trump called the former FBI boss “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. “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 preparing an attack on Comey’s credibility as he embarks on a book tour about a memoir that portrays Trump as a “forest fire” that threatens to undermine the nation’s values and norms.
Trump fired Comey in May, prompting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint special counsel Robert Mueller, in part, to determine if the FBI director’s termination amounted to obstruction of justice.
In the book, Comey described Trump’s presidency as a “forest fire” that threatens to undermine the nation’s values and norms.
