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President Trump took to Twitter to slam former FBI Director James Comey Friday morning, calling him a "leaker [and] liar" who botched the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
The president was reacting to the first clips of Comey's ABC News interview - which will air in full Sunday morning ahead of the release of his new book.
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. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
....untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018
In the interview and in just-released excerpts from the book, Comey compares Trump to a mob boss and accuses him of being unconcerned with Russia's election interference. He recalled Trump requesting that the FBI investigate salacious allegations about his actions with Russian prostitutes.
"It bothered [President Trump] if there was 'even a one percent chance' his wife, Melania, thought it was true," Comey wrote, according to the New York Post.
"In what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does a spouse conclude there is only a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do that?" Comey asked, expressing the same sentiment to George Stephanopoulos.
Fox News weekend anchor Steve Hilton reacted Friday to the back-and-forth, saying there is a strong reason to suspect federal crimes were committed by Comey.
He said on "Fox & Friends" a lot of people will agree with Trump's tweets about Comey and the mainstream media will not push back on his actions during the book tour.
Don't miss a special edition of The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton - "The Trial of James Comey" - Sunday at 9:00pm ET on Fox News.
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