JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey pillories President Donald Trump in his soon-to-be-released book, ‘A Higher Loyalty,’ deriding him as a cruel and selfish liar who is ‘unethical,’ ‘untethered to truth’ and has likely never ‘recoiled from causing another person pain.’ From jabs at Trump’s height to ruminating on the status of his marriage, Comey leaves little question about how he feels about the 45th president. But throughout the book, a manuscript of which was obtained by POLITICO, Comey also seeks to draw deeper lessons about leadership — rebukes of Trump and those around him that may be lost in the headlines surrounding the book’s more startling details, like Trump’s apparent obsession with allegations concerning prostitutes in Moscow. In those passages, though, Comey indicts not only Trump’s character but also that of many around him, and those in power who support and defend him.”
–Matthew Nussbaum, “Comey’s rebuke of Trump cuts deep,” Politico, April 13, 2018 5:24 am