New York Daily News

Trump’s like Mafia ‘Don,’ says Comey

- Denis Slattery

FORMER FBI Director James Comey apparently compares President Trump to a mob boss in a new ABC News interview that is set to air this weekend.

Comey, fired by Trump last May, has largely remained quiet about the President and his administra­tion the past 11 months as he wrote a memoir that will be released Tuesday.

The interview with ABC’s George Stephanopo­ulos, airing Sunday at 10 p.m. as part of a “20/20” special, is “going to shock the President and his team,” a source told Axios.

“How strange is it for you to sit here and compare the President to a mob boss?” Stephanopo­ulos asks the axed former bureau head in a promo released by the network.

He also asks whether Comey believes the President obstructed justice. Comey does not speak in the clip.

The interview will be followed by appearance­s on “The View,” CNN, MSNBC and Fox News in the coming week as Comey promotes his new book, “A Higher Loyalty.”

Comey’s dismissal paved the way for the appointmen­t of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is now overseeing the federal investigat­ion into Russian election meddling and probing whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin to sway the contest in Trump’s favor.

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