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    5 Insights From Comey's Memoir: Ex-FBI Chief Blasts Trump As Mob-Like

    In A Higher Loyalty, James Comey says the president "is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values. ... His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty."
    by Jessica Taylor Apr 12, 2018 6 minutes
    President Trump shakes hands with James Comey, then the director of the FBI, during a reception at the White House on January 22, 2017.

    James Comey's much-anticipated memoir A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership doesn't pull any punches when it comes to condemning the roughly 15-month tenure of President Trump. The former FBI director who Trump unceremoniously fired paints a picture of a chief executive only concerned about his own image in the press instead of the safety of the nation.

    The book isn't set to be released until next week, but NPR has obtained a copy. In it, Comey reflects on the circumstances surrounding his dismissal, reveals further insights into his fraught conversations with the president and examines his own controversial decisions — namely how he handled the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and whether or not he impacted Clinton's chances against Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

    Here are five major areas Comey examines in the memoir:

    1. Trump's "unethical" and "transactional" Mafia-like approach

    The broad portrait Comey tries to paint is of Trump as a president so far outside democratic norms that he is a danger to the republic as he spouts

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