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TRUMP HAS BLASTED former FBI director James Comey on Twitter, calling him an “untruthful slime ball” who deserved to be fired from the role.
“It was my great honor to fire James Comey!” Trump wrote, calling him “weak” and “a proven LEAKER & LIAR”.
Trump fired Comey 11 months ago, and today’s comments mark Trump’s first remarks about him since the first copies of Comey’s upcoming book, which describes Trump as “unethical, and untethered to the truth and institutional values”, were revealed.
Donald J. Trump / Twitter
Donald J. Trump / Twitter / Twitter
Donald J. Trump / Twitter
Donald J. Trump / Twitter / Twitter
Trump accuses Comey of leaking classified information and of lying to Congress under oath. He also states that Comey’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state would “go down as one of the worst ‘botch jobs’ of history”.
Trump’s firing of Comey has been under scrutiny by special counsel Robert S Mueller III, who is investigating ties into Trump and Russia.
Trump cited Comey’s investigation into Clinton when Comey was fired, and the move was also interpreted as part of Trump’s efforts to harm any possible investigation into collusion between Trump and Russia during his election campaign.
Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, is out next Tuesday. Copies of the book have been leaked to the Guardian, who reports that Comey compares Trump’s presidency to a “forest fire” and makes unflattering comments about Trump’s physical appearance.
Both the White House and the Republican National Committee have attempted to undermine the book’s contents.
In his tweets, Trump asserts that Comey was an unpopular FBI director who deserved to be fired. “Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired,” he wrote.
Many viewed Trump’s firing of Comey as anti-democratic, and the move was questioned by three top Republican senators. Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, said he was “troubled by the timing and reasoning” of the decision. The move was generally derided by democrats and international media, and resulted in protests, including outside of Trump Tower in New York.
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Talk about takes one to know one!
@Marty Gormley: I can just picture his rage while trying to use twitter on his phone this morning.
@Johnny Bellew: and his little fat fingers trying to type!!! Roflmao!
@Terri McCormick O’Gorman: ….while sitting on the toilet
@Marty Gormley: trump is one deranged man. God help humanity.
@Ger Murphy: if I was Comey, I’d use it as a review on my book cover.
@Marty Gormley: If Trump thinks the head of the FBI was a untruthful slime ball he has merely confirmed what Russia is saying about western intelligence agencies.
Reminds me of Biff ….from the future
@Alan Pike: on the nail! Perfect.
@Alan Pike: McFlyyyyy!
@Alan Pike: It’s funny because its true. Now go get your coat. YOU’RE FIRED.
@Alan Pike: Who was literally based on Trump
@Alan Pike: make like a tree and get out of here
@Guy Incognito: shh, don’t spoil the fun with a well known piece of movie trivia…
Love it when Trump calls someone else a slime ball…
@SL Photography: Does he call you that a lot? At least it’s someone else this time..
@John Free Shanti: hahahahaha. Hahahahaha……hah
When Trump revenged himself on Comey, by ignominiously firing him, he may have overlooked the Confucian wisdom, that a person who seeks revenge against another should first build 2 coffins.
@Michael Lang: deep state pulling out all stops to pressurise the orange one to go to war… lefts blind hatred of trump plays into their hands & hastens the Armageddon… crazy ironic situation…
@Chris Leitrim: they just don’t make Armageddon like they used to and that is good.
The US is a paper tiger.
@Michael Lang: Armageddon outta here, I can tell ya!
Trump seems to think if he says something it is true. When proven wrong he just repeats it anyway and many of his followers still believe him. It is the strangest human trait to blindly stick by somebody and always defend them no matter what they do. I will always call out any liar regardless.
@Kal Ipers:
I think the point is that the people who voted for him are those who see themselves (or at least what they would like to be) in him.
It’s a damning indictment on the political system when people simply don’t care about the truth.
Trump is a joke until he’s threatening missile strikes. Shrewd, intelligent, amoral and a proven liar. A bully and a coward. The America that hides behind values and family. All bullshit.
@Kal Ipers: Take a read of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder page on Wikipedia, and keep him in mind – it’s very scary…
@Kal Ipers: ah, you’ll never make it in politics doing that. Dont you know, if you repeat a lie often enough, it will become the truth…….
@Type17: Yikes, that is a scarily perfect fit!
A proven leaker? The snowflake in chief needs to have a bit of self awareness!
Would Trump be able to negotiate sanctuary in Russia?
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
@Michael Lang: With two scoops of ice cream.
I love the way everyone that has any criticism of trump is a liar that dose a terrible job and everyone agrees they should be fired.
@Thomas Maher: keep taking your medication …
As Trump might say in his Julius Caesar person
“Infamy, infamy, they all have it in for me.”
@Michael Lang: Too right they have for Trumpo the Twit
Trump should be singing
“ I hear the train a Comey. It’s Comey round the bend” . Bang. Executive privilege invoked.
Trump has accused Comey of lying under oath. At least Comey went under oath and told his side. Trump can do the same, but even a dope like him should know that not even the president can lie under oath and get away with it. Ask Nixon.
Trump’s urine-blond comb-over colour may be explained as ‘all organic’ in the near future.
@alphanautica: skid mark. In cattle farming it is called “scour”.
I’m confused, is this story about Russian hookers taking a leak or some other sort of leaker? Or is it leek? Something to do with Wales?
Leek over there? I’m starting a war?
Meanwhile, in other news today, Trump pardons Scooter Libby … indicted in 2005 on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements to investigators – largely for denying his contacts with the media when caught up in the investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame…
I would like to see an octagon MMA cage.
Trump and Putin enter the cage.
The crown roar
“ Two go in; one come out”.
The shoot the winner.
With apologies to Mad Max.
@Michael Lang: /Frankie goes to Hollywood, but Putins says you owe me $800m
The best analysis of Trump Inhave heard is from a journalist and commentator, David Frum.
Comey should have arrested Trump for assaulting earlier before he sacks him
What a low life this trump is.
Please somebody impeach him soon.
He’s making me feel sick now.
He’s ruining America.
@Gerry Fallon: America is already been ruined thanks to Reagan and Bush and W Bush
Trump is a nutter! And he got his finger on the red button! !!!!
Comey is the Bizzaro Trump…That’s why Trump hates him.
@beckman3: And he is taller.
Leaker???
I think the real slimeball is the writer of the tweets. hopefully soon to be Leroys cellmate.
America is bonkers
I bet you a Pound that Pence will be the President within a year.
Stay classy Donald, busily making America look stupid.
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