JAMES COMEY/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Trump on Friday [4-27-18] renewed his attacks on the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, kicking off a morning Twitter barrage by once again accusing Mr. Comey of leaking classified information and lying to cover it up, even as the leaders of North and South Korea held a historic meeting hours earlier. In a tweet, Mr. Trump called Mr. Comey ‘either very sick or very dumb,’ saying his fired F.B.I. chief did not understand the severity of his actions in having details about his interactions with the president provided to a reporter. ‘Remember sailor!’ Mr. Trump added, a month after he pardoned a United States sailor who had pleaded guilty to illegally retaining national defense information and obstruction of justice. The sailor had taken cellphone photos in restricted areas on a nuclear submarine and destroyed them when he learned he was under investigation. Fifteen minutes after he tweeted about Mr. Comey, the president turned to the news of the morning: He applauded the remarkable development on the Korean Peninsula, where Kim Jong-un became the first North Korean leader to set foot in South Korea. ‘KOREAN WAR TO END!’ he tweeted, a few minutes after saying that ‘good things are happening’ on the Korean Peninsula, ‘but only time will tell!'”
–Eileen Sullivan, “Trump Renews Attacks on Comey Before Turning to Praise of Korean Talks,” The New York Times online, April 27, 2018