JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Donald J. Trump asked Director James B. Comey of the F.B.I. to investigate and knock down a lurid but unverified report that placed Mr. Trump years earlier in a Moscow hotel suite with prostitutes, explaining to Mr. Comey that the fantastic story was untrue and was painful and distressing to his wife, Melania Trump. Mr. Comey describes two January 2017 conversations between himself and Mr. Trump in ‘A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,’ Mr. Comey’s new memoir, which is set to be released Tuesday [4-17-18]. The New York Times acquired a copy of the book before its release, and accounts of the exchange appeared in reports by several other news organizations on Thursday evening…Four months later, Mr. Trump abruptly fired Mr. Comey, setting in motion a cascade of political and legal consequences that led directly to the appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel overseeing the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mr. Comey and Mr. Trump have been engaged in a verbal war with each other, often on Twitter, since then.”
–Michael D. Shear, “Comey’s Memoir Offers Visceral Details on a President ‘Untethered to Truth’,” The New York Times online, April 13, 2018