NOW IT’S A ‘SLIME’ BRAWL
Don erupts over ‘weak’ Comey Calls for charges vs. ‘LEAKER’ ‘It was great honor to fire him!’
President Trump blasted ex-FBI Director James Comey as a “weak and untruthful slime ball” on Friday after explosive excerpts emerged from the former top Gman’s memoir — and said he should be tried for allegedly leaking classified material.
“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,” tweeted Trump, who booted Comey last May.
“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!”
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders piled on a few hours later, trashing Comey’s upcoming tell-all memoir, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.”
“The American people see right through the blatant lies of the self-admitted leaker. This is nothing more than a poorly executed p.r. stunt by Comey. He’s padding his pockets with a book that should be in the basement bargain bin,” she said.
“He’ll be known as a disgraced partisan hack that broke his sacred trust with the president of the United States, the dedicated agents of the FBI and the American people he vowed to faithfully serve. One of the president’s greatest achievements will go down as firing director Comey.”
Trump unleashed his Twitter tirade a day after salacious claims from “A Higher Loyalty,” which hits bookshelves Tuesday, were revealed by news outlets that obtained advance copies.
The president’s attack came as “Good Morning America” on Friday aired portions of an interview Comey gave to ABC News.
In the interview — set to air in full on “20/20” Sunday — Comey says it is “possible” that Trump cavorted with urinating hookers in Moscow during a trip for the Miss Universe pageant.
“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 said. “It’s possible, but I don’t know.” He said he warned Trump against ordering a probe into allegations in a 35-page dossier compiled by former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele that suggested the Kremlin had a tape of the alleged fetish encounter in a Moscow hotel suite.
Comey claimed Trump floated the idea of investigating the “pee tape” allegations, with the president saying it would bother him if there was “even a 1 percent chance” that First Lady Melania Trump believed them.
“And I remember thinking, ‘How could your wife think there’s a 1 percent chance you were with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow?’ ” Comey said.
He described his discussion with Trump as an “almost out-ofbody experience.”
“I was floating above myself, looking down, saying, ‘You’re sit- ting here, briefing the incoming president of the United States about prostitutes in Moscow,’ ” Comey recalled, adding that Trump asked, “Do I look like a guy who needs hookers?”
“And I assumed he was asking that rhetorically, I didn’t answer that, and I just moved on and explained, ‘Sir, I’m not saying that we credit this, I’m not saying we believe it. We just thought it very important that you know.’ ”