Trump takes another shot at Comey, invokes Clinton emails

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump began a weeklong trip to Florida on Monday by extolling his re- cently enacted tax cuts and once again excoriating former FBI Director James Comey on the eve of his explosive new book’s publication.

“Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her,” Trump tweeted about the email controversy that clouded the 2016 campaign. He said Comey — who told USA TODAY Trump is morally unfit to be president — lied about his actions to Congress and “committed many crimes!”

Clinton and other Democrats, meanwhile, believe Comey cost her the election with his comments about the investigation into her private email system.

Trump first made a stop in the Miami area, where he told business owners that cutting taxes and regulations is spurring economic growth. He said that “our country is starting to rock.”

Trump then headed to his Mar-a-Lago estate here, which will be the site of a two-day summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Topics at Tuesday and Wednesday meetings are expected to include the brewing trade war with China and Trump’s planned meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un.

On Thursday, Trump is scheduled to visit the Joint Interagency Task Force South in Key West to talk about drug interdiction efforts.

The president’s Florida spring break comes just days after he authorized a missile strike on Syria in retaliation for an alleged chemical-weapons attack on rebels fighting Bashar Assad’s government. Russia, Syria’s ally, protested the attack but has not retaliated.

During the tax-cut roundtable in Hialeah, Florida, Trump praised the missile attack, claiming that “every single one hit its target.”