Washington — On Friday, US President Donald Trump accused the FBI director he fired, James Comey, of leaking classified information, saying he should be prosecuted for lying to US Congress under oath. In a new memoir due to hit the bookshelves on Tuesday, Comey said Trump reminded him of a mafia boss who demanded absolute loyalty, saw the entire world against him and lied about everything. "James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did—until he was, in fact, fired," Trump wrote in a Twitter tirade. "He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH." Comey said the president was also obsessed with the alleged existence of a video in which Russian prostitutes said to be hired by Trump urinated on the bed in a Moscow hotel room. The allegations left Trump fuming. "He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of th...
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