The former Director of the FBI insists he has “no idea” if the Mueller report into Russian meddling in Mr Trump’s winning presidential campaign will find anything, but hopes it will deliver the “fair administration of justice”. Mr Comey, who was fired by Mr Trump in May 2017, states he is “morally unfit to be president of the United States” in a scathing assessment of his term in office. A verdict from Robert Mueller’s two-year Russia investigation is eagerly awaited in the US, and Mr Comey also admits he does not care what the report finds, as long as “justice” and “core American values will have been protected”.
He told the New York Times: “I have no idea whether the special counsel will conclude that Mr Trump knowingly conspired with the Russians in connection with the 2016 election or that he obstructed justice with the required corrupt intent.
“I also don’t care. I care only that the work be done, well and completely.
“If it is, justice will have prevailed and core American values will have been protected at a time when so much of our national leadership has abandoned its commitment to truth and the rule of law.”
He also notes if Mr Trump is impeached it will be described “as a coup” and risk further dividing the nation.
He added: “If Mr. Trump were removed from office by Congress, a significant portion of this country would see this as a coup, and it would drive those people farther from the common centre of American life, more deeply fracturing our country.”
On Thursday Mr Trump openly criticised the Mueller investigation and branded the whole thing a “Witch Hunt” which had been “orchestrated by loser Democrats and their friends in the Fake News Media”.
Mr Comey also appealed to Americans to “united” and turn their back on the US President in next years election.
He said: “We need a resounding election result in 2020, where Americans of all stripes, divided as they may be about important policy issues — immigration, guns, abortion, climate change, regulation, taxes.
“Take a moment from their busy lives to show that they are united by something even more important: the belief that the president of the United States cannot be a chronic liar who repeatedly attacks the rule of law. Then we can get back to policy disagreements.
“I just hope we are up to it.”