Comey, who has a contentious relationship with the man who fired him, to say the least, appeared to respond to Trump’s Saturday-morning tweet storm, in which called Comey a “total sleaze” and a “crooked cop.”
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made,” Comey tweeted, quoting former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The president’s rant touched on everything from special counsel Robert Mueller to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. Trump was responding to a New York Times report Friday night that said the FBI opened up an inquiry into the president’s possible loyalties to Russia after he fired Comey in May 2017.