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Donald Trump is morally unfit to be President, says ex-FBI Director Comey

Trump fired Comey in May, an action that helped lead to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller

James Comey, FBI, US, Russia probe
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Former FBI director James Comey recounts a series of conversations with President Donald Trump as he testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Bloomberg
Donald Trump is “morally unfit” to be president, former FBI Director James Comey said in a highly anticipated prime-time interview Sunday, adding that he couldn’t rule out the possibility that the Russian government has incriminating information about the president.

“I think it’s possible. I don’t know,” Comey said in the ABC News interview when asked whether Trump has been “compromised” by the Russians. “These are more words I never thought I’d utter about a president of the United States, but it’s possible.”

Comey told ABC News’ Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos that he had concluded during the presidential campaign that Trump

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