Comey, in Interview, Calls Trump ‘Morally Unfit’ and ‘Stain’ on All Around Him

The following article by Michael D. Shear and Peter Baker was posted on the New York Times website April 15, 2018:

James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, used his interview on the ABC News program “20/20” to amplify many of the disclosures in his tell-all memoir.Credit: Ralph Alswang/ABC News

WASHINGTON — If there was any chance that President Trump and James B. Comey could have avoided all-out war, it ended Sunday night.

That was when ABC News aired an interview with Mr. Comey, the president’s fired F.B.I. director, as he uses a publicity blitz for his searing tell-all memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” to raise the alarm about the dangers he says Mr. Trump poses to the country.

While ABC aired one hour of its conversation with Mr. Comey, it had conducted a five-hour interview with him, a transcript of which was obtained by The New York Times. In it, Mr. Comey called Mr. Trump a serial liar who treated women like “meat,” and described him as a “stain” on everyone who worked for him. Continue reading “Comey, in Interview, Calls Trump ‘Morally Unfit’ and ‘Stain’ on All Around Him”