Furious Donald Trump brands ex-FBI director James Comey a 'liar' and a 'slimeball' ahead of bombshell book
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- 13 Apr 2021
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Donald Trump has branded former FBI director James Comey a ‘leaker’, a ‘liar’ and a ‘weak and untruthful slime ball’ ahead of the publication of a bombshell book.
Details of A Higher Loyalty, Comey’s memoir about his time in office, leaked last night.
In the book, Comey compares Trump to the mafia kingpins he spent his early career prosecuting.
"The boss in complete control,” he said. “The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth."
"What is happening now is not normal. ... It is not fake news. It is not okay,"
Today, almost a week ahead of the book’s official release, Trump lashed out on Twitter, branding Comey a liar.
“James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. 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," Trump tweeted. "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!"
In an interview with ABC broadcast on Friday, Comey discussed his initial encounters last year with the new president, whom he described as volatile, defensive and concerned more about how his own image than about alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
In the first excerpt of the interview, broadcast on "Good Morning America," Comey said he cautioned Trump against ordering an investigation into a salacious intelligence dossier alleging an 2013 encounter with prostitutes in Moscow.
In the book, Comey wrote that Trump raised the intelligence dossier with him at least four times during meetings after Trump took office in January, according to the Washington Post, which obtained a copy.
The dossier was compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele about Trump's ties to Russia and included an allegation that involved prostitutes.
Comey told ABC that Trump denied the allegations and said he might want the FBI to investigate allegations in the dossier to prove they were not true.
"I said to him, 'Sir that's up to you but you want to be careful about that because it might create a narrative that we're investigating you personally and, second, it's very difficult to prove something didn't happen," Comey said.
Trump was worried there was a chance his wife, Melania Trump , would believe the allegations.
Comey said he told the president the FBI had not proved or disproved the allegations but thought it was important Trump knew about them.
Comey said the allegations in the dossier had not been verified at the time he left the FBI.
Asked how bizarre that meeting with Trump was, Comey said: "Very weird. "Really weird. It was almost an out of body experience for me. I was floating above myself looking down saying 'you're sitting here briefing the incoming president of the United States about prostitutes in Moscow.'"
