JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “For the second time in a week, President Trump on Sunday [4-15-18] excoriated the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey in a series of tweets after details from Mr. Comey’s tell-all book were leaked before its official release. In the latest tirade, which unfolded over an hour, the president declared that Mr. Comey ‘will go down as the WORST FBI Director in history, by far!’ He mentioned Mr. Comey’s contemporaneous notes of their meetings, calling those memos self-serving and ‘fake.’ He again called Mr. Comey a ‘slimeball,’ an insult he lobbed on Friday [4-13-18]. He also questioned Mr. Comey’s intelligence twice — first by saying the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails had been handled ‘stupidly’ and then, about 30 minutes later, that Mr. Comey ‘is not smart!’ Hours later, Mr. Comey appeared to make an indirect response to the jabs. In a post on Twitter, he said his book, ‘A Higher Loyalty,’ was about ‘ethical leadership’ and drew not only from his own life but also from ‘lessons I learned from others.'”
–Christina Caron, “Trump Blasts Comey in Barrage of Tweets, Calling Him ‘Slippery’,” The New York Times online, April 15, 2018