Trump medically fit but ‘morally unfit’ for office: ex-FBI chief Comey

“Our President must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country, the most important being truth,” he tells ABC.

This combo shows United States President Donald Trump and former FBI director James Comey. After Mr. Trump fired off a series of tweets against Mr. Comey, calling him among other things a “slimeball,” the latter, in a holds-barred interview to ABC, said the President was medically fit but “morally unfit” to hold office.

Donald Trump is “morally unfit” to be president of the United States, former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey told ABC in an interview broadcast.

“I don’t buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia,” Mr. Comey said of Mr. Trump, according to a transcript from ABC.

Not medically unfit but...

“I don’t think he’s medically unfit to be President. I think he’s morally unfit to be President,” the former FBI chief said.

“Our President must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country the most important being truth. This President is not able to do that,” he said.

Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey in May 2017, citing the FBI’s behavior in investigating Democrat Hillary Clinton and its probe into possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia to tilt the 2016 presidential election.

Just 11 days before the election, Mr. Comey announced that the FBI would reopen an investigation into Ms. Clinton’s possible misuse of a private email server while she was secretary of state — a move she has said played a part in her loss to Trump.

To Trump, Comey is a ‘slimeball’

The President lashed out at Mr. Comey in a series of tweets earlier Sunday, saying that the email probe was handled “stupidly” and calling Mr. Comey a “slimeball.”