Arthur J. Villasanta – Fourth Estate Contributor
Washington, DC, United States (4E) – Former FBI Director James Comey confirms our worst fears about president Donald Trump, describing the previous businessman as “untethered to truth,” “unethical” and a “congenital liar” who lies about all issues giant and small.
Comey made these gorgeous feedback in his explosive ebook, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” whose hardcover version will get to bookstores on April 17. The ebook has develop into an immediate bestseller on-line, particularly on Amazon.
In his 304-page exposé, Comey likened Trump’s maniacal obsession with demanding whole loyalty from his underlings as worthy of a Mafia boss, and referred to as Trump’s inside circle a “Mob family.” Comey additionally reveals what he prefers to name Trump’s “mob”-like strategy to management. He additionally lashed out at Trump’s character, which he says created “the forest fire that is the Trump presidency.”
Comey’s exposé gives a lurid portrait of Trump as a person unconcerned with moral, authorized and ethical norms and solely with preening himself. Comey additionally stated Trump is a blabbermouth who makes use of his continuous tirades to drag “all those present into a silent circle of assent.”
Comey’s ebook comes 11 months after Comey was fired by Trump, who tried to persuade Comey into abandoning an investigation into Trump’s former nationwide safety adviser Michael Flynn.
Comey’s firing, nonetheless, ignited a series of occasions that led to the appointment of Robert Mueller as particular counsel to supervise the investigation into Russian meddling within the 2016 presidential election, and alleged collusion between Moscow and the Trump marketing campaign.
A former prosecutor, Comey wrote he noticed a lot in widespread between Trump and the mob bosses he had prosecuted. Then there’s Trump’s Mob-like obsession with private loyalty.
“The silent circle of assent,” wrote Comey. “The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.”
“What is happening now is not normal,” wrote Comey.
“This President is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.”
Of Trump’s notorious demand on the White House in January 2017 that “I need loyalty,” Comey wrote: “To my mind, the demand was like Sammy the Bull’s Cosa Nostra induction ceremony — with Trump in the role of the family boss, asking me if I have what it takes to be a ‘made man’.”
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