New York Daily News

Donald goes bonkers over FBI big’s book

‘HEARD HE WAS TREATED UNFAIRLY’

- BY DENIS SLATTERY

PRESIDENT TRUMP is pissed.

A seething Trump ripped into James Comey on Friday, denouncing the former FBI director as an “untruthful slime ball.”

Trump held little back as he tweeted out his first reactions to a slew of reports about Comey painting the President as unethical and “untethered to truth” in his highly anticipate­d forthcomin­g book.

“He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI,” Trump tweeted. “It was my great honor to fire James Comey!”

Trump — who fired Comey last May — also accused Comey of lying to Congress under oath, leaking classified informatio­n and called for him to be prosecuted.

“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 wrote.

The White House later issued a blistering its own critique of Comey, saying that his firing will be remembered as “one of the President’s greatest achievemen­ts.”

Comey will “be forever known as a disgraced partisan hack” after the publicatio­n of his book, which “belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section,” press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a briefing .

Comey wrote about Trump in his book “A Higher Loyalty,” which is due out Tuesday.

In it, Comey compares Trump to a mob boss, and a man obsessed with salacious rumors involving Russian hookers he insisted were untrue but could distress his wife.

Comey said in an interview snippet released Friday “it’s possible” Trump was “with prostitute­s peeing on each other” in Moscow in 2013.

“I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don’t know whether the current President of the United States was with prostitute­s peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013,” Comey told ABC News. “It’s possible, but I don’t know.”

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