Trump slams 'slimeball,' 'slippery,' 'not smart,' 'out of whack' Comey in frenetic tweetstorm

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Angry over new revelations from the former FBI director and his forthcoming book, President Trump again attacked James Comey in a series of tweets Sunday morning:

The president also took a break from Comey bashing to comment on the criminal investigation of his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. "Attorney Client privilege is now a thing of the past," he wrote. "All lawyers are deflated and concerned!"

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.