Trump ran White House like a ‘mob boss’: Comey

Washington, April 13: Former FBI director James Comey says in a new book that President Donald Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty, saw the entire world against him, and lied about everything.

According to excerpts of the book leaked by US media, Mr Trump was also obsessed with the alleged existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes said to be hired by Mr Trump urinated on the bed in a Moscow hotel room. In the book to be released officially next Tuesday, Mr Comey, whom Trump fired in May 2017, 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.

Sharply reacting to Mr Comey's allegations, Mr Trump accused the former FBI director of leaking classified information, saying he should be prosecuted for lying to Congress under oath. “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,” Mr Trump wrote in a Twitter tirade. “He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH,” he said. Meetings with Trump gave Mr 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 worldview. 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.” Mr Comey goes on to say Mr Trump, congenitally, has no sense of what is right and wrong.