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NEW YORK. – Donald Trump is “morally unfit” to be president of the US, former FBI director James Comey told ABC in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
“I don’t buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia,” Comey said of Trump, according to a transcript from ABC.
“I don’t think he’s medically unfit to be president. I think he’s morally unfit to be president,” he said.
“Our president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country. The most important being truth. This president is not able to do that,” he said.
Trump fired Comey in May 2017, citing the FBI’s behaviour in investigating Democrat Hillary Clinton and its probe into possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia to tilt the 2016 presidential election.
Just 11 days before the election, Comey announced that the FBI would reopen an investigation into Clinton’s possible misuse of a private email server while she was secretary of state – a move she has said played a part in her loss to Trump.
The president lashed out at Comey in a series of tweets earlier on Sunday, saying that the email probe was handled “stupidly” and calling Comey a “slime ball”.
Yesterday, Trump also fired back at Comey, saying he is guilty of “many crimes,” as the former FBI director opened a book tour with an interview in which he labelled the US president “morally unfit” for office.
Trump accused Comey of lying to Congress and exonerating Hillary Clinton in a 2016 investigation because of her strong poll numbers in the presidential race.
“Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G),” Trump fired in an early morning tweet.
“Then based his decisions on her poll numbers. Disgruntled, he, [former FBI deputy director Andrew] McCabe, and the others, committed many crimes!”
Comey’s book, which leaked out last week ahead of its official release today, takes on the president who fired him in May 2017 over the troubling Russia election meddling investigation, a probe that poses a deep threat to Trump’s 15-month-old presidency. – AFP
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