Donald Trump blasts ex-FBI chief Comey as a ‘leader and liar’
and calls for his prosecution after details of scathing book
surface
In the former director’s book, to be released on Tuesday, he
says the president reminds him of a mob boss and he was obsessed
with the alleged existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes
urinated on a bed in a Moscow hotel room.
President Donald Trump on Friday accused the FBI director he
fired, James Comey, of leaking classified information, saying he
should be prosecuted for lying to Congress under oath.
In a new memoir due to hit the bookshelves on Tuesday, Comey
said Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute
loyalty, saw the entire world against him and lied about
everything.
“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,” Trump wrote in a Twitter
tirade.
“He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be
prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH.”
Comey said the president was also obsessed with the alleged
existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes said to be hired
by Trump urinated on the bed in a Moscow hotel room.
The allegations left Trump fuming.
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. He lied
to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
….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!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
“He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has
proven, a terrible Director of the FBI,” Trump added in a second
tweet.
“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 honour to fire James Comey!”
In the book Comey says the US president lives in “a cocoon of
alternative reality” that he tried to pull others around him into,
according to The Washington Post.
Meetings with Trump gave Comey “flashbacks to my earlier career
as a prosecutor against the mob”, he writes.
“The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The
loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them world view. The lying about all
things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that
put the organisation above morality and above the truth.”
ut Comey goes farther to say that Trump, congenitally, has no
sense of what is right and wrong.
“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and
institutional values,” he writes, according to The New York Times.
“His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal
loyalty.”
The book, titled A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,
has triggered worries now rippling through the White House and
Republican establishment over the damage it might do to the already
deeply troubled Trump presidency.
The White House has sought to cast doubts about Comey’s
reputation: the Republican Party this week put up a website called
“Lyin’ Comey” to undermine the book. But among both Republicans and
Democrats in Washington’s establishment, the reputation of Comey –
who has served in the FBI under three presidents – is much stronger
than his book’s target.
Last year, Comey revealed that Trump had pressured him to drop
an investigation into Mike Flynn, the US leader’s former national
security adviser, and also demanded a loyalty pledge.
Getting neither, the president fired Comey on May 9, complaining
of the ongoing investigation into possible Trump campaign-Russia
ties.
A week later the Justice Department appointed a special
prosecutor Robert Mueller, who has doggedly pursued the probe as
well as possible obstruction of justice by Trump. He has issued 19
indictments so far, including of top Trump lieutenants.
But A Higher Loyalty shares little new about the Russia
investigation, with Comey bound to respect the classified nature of
the Mueller investigation that Trump just this week labelled “fake
and corrupt”.
According to the New York Post, Comey says Trump was obsessed
with the “pee tape”, the existence of which was first reported by a
former British intelligence agent who researched alleged links
between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
Trump asked Comey to investigate “what he called the ‘golden
showers thing’” Comey writes, saying Trump was determined to prove
to his wife Melania that it did not exist.
“He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn’t
possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to
investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie.”
But Trump’s concern over the alleged video extended to the
numerous sex scandals that have dogged him over decades as a New
York real estate tycoon – and have returned to haunt him in the
White House.
In the past year two women, one a pornographic film star and the
second a Playboy model, have said they were paid off to be silent
about affairs they had with Trump over a decade ago while he was
married to his current wife Melania.
Speaking on the Moscow video, Comey said, Trump “strongly denied
the allegations, asking – rhetorically, I assumed – whether he
seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes.”
“He then began discussing cases where women had accused him of
sexual assault, a subject I had not raised,” Comey wrote. “He
mentioned a number of women, and seemed to have memorised their
allegations.”
AFP
Donald Trump blasts ex-FBI chief Comey as a ‘leader and liar’
and calls for his prosecution after details of scathing book
surface
In the former director’s book, to be released on Tuesday, he
says the president reminds him of a mob boss and he was obsessed
with the alleged existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes
urinated on a bed in a Moscow hotel room.
President Donald Trump on Friday accused the FBI director he
fired, James Comey, of leaking classified information, saying he
should be prosecuted for lying to Congress under oath.
In a new memoir due to hit the bookshelves on Tuesday, Comey
said Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute
loyalty, saw the entire world against him and lied about
everything.
“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,” Trump wrote in a Twitter
tirade.
“He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be
prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH.”
Comey said the president was also obsessed with the alleged
existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes said to be hired
by Trump urinated on the bed in a Moscow hotel room.
The allegations left Trump fuming.
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. He lied
to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
….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!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
“He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has
proven, a terrible Director of the FBI,” Trump added in a second
tweet.
“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 honour to fire James Comey!”
In the book Comey says the US president lives in “a cocoon of
alternative reality” that he tried to pull others around him into,
according to The Washington Post.
Meetings with Trump gave Comey “flashbacks to my earlier career
as a prosecutor against the mob”, he writes.
“The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The
loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them world view. The lying about all
things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that
put the organisation above morality and above the truth.”
ut Comey goes farther to say that Trump, congenitally, has no
sense of what is right and wrong.
“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and
institutional values,” he writes, according to The New York Times.
“His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal
loyalty.”
The book, titled A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,
has triggered worries now rippling through the White House and
Republican establishment over the damage it might do to the already
deeply troubled Trump presidency.
The White House has sought to cast doubts about Comey’s
reputation: the Republican Party this week put up a website called
“Lyin’ Comey” to undermine the book. But among both Republicans and
Democrats in Washington’s establishment, the reputation of Comey –
who has served in the FBI under three presidents – is much stronger
than his book’s target.
Last year, Comey revealed that Trump had pressured him to drop
an investigation into Mike Flynn, the US leader’s former national
security adviser, and also demanded a loyalty pledge.
Getting neither, the president fired Comey on May 9, complaining
of the ongoing investigation into possible Trump campaign-Russia
ties.
A week later the Justice Department appointed a special
prosecutor Robert Mueller, who has doggedly pursued the probe as
well as possible obstruction of justice by Trump. He has issued 19
indictments so far, including of top Trump lieutenants.
But A Higher Loyalty shares little new about the Russia
investigation, with Comey bound to respect the classified nature of
the Mueller investigation that Trump just this week labelled “fake
and corrupt”.
According to the New York Post, Comey says Trump was obsessed
with the “pee tape”, the existence of which was first reported by a
former British intelligence agent who researched alleged links
between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
Trump asked Comey to investigate “what he called the ‘golden
showers thing’” Comey writes, saying Trump was determined to prove
to his wife Melania that it did not exist.
“He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn’t
possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to
investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie.”
But Trump’s concern over the alleged video extended to the
numerous sex scandals that have dogged him over decades as a New
York real estate tycoon – and have returned to haunt him in the
White House.
In the past year two women, one a pornographic film star and the
second a Playboy model, have said they were paid off to be silent
about affairs they had with Trump over a decade ago while he was
married to his current wife Melania.
Speaking on the Moscow video, Comey said, Trump “strongly denied
the allegations, asking – rhetorically, I assumed – whether he
seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes.”
“He then began discussing cases where women had accused him of
sexual assault, a subject I had not raised,” Comey wrote. “He
mentioned a number of women, and seemed to have memorised their
allegations.”
AFP
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