JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If there was any chance that President Trump and James B. Comey could have avoided all-out war, it ended Sunday [4-15-18] 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. He said a salacious allegation that Mr. Trump had cavorted with prostitutes in Moscow had left him vulnerable to blackmail by the Russian government. And he asserted that the president was incinerating the country’s crucial norms and traditions like a wildfire. He compared the president to a mafia boss.”
-Michael D. Shear and Peter Baker, “Comey, in Interview, Calls Trump ‘Morally Unfit’ and ‘Stain’ on All Around Him,” The New York Times online, April 15, 2018