Comey plays a dangerous game

Light on news, heavy on insults – why did the fired FBI director write his book? Emily Hohler reports.

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James Comey: drenched with the stink of sanctimony

When Donald Trump fired James Comey as director of the FBI last May, Comey didn't bow out of the public eye, says Jacey Fortin in The New York Times. "Far from it." His memoir, A Higher Loyalty, was published this week and a long-awaited TV interview with George Stephanopoulos aired on ABC News on Sunday night. In it, Comey called Trump a serial liar who treated women like "meat" and described him as "morally unfit to be president". Trump, for his part, has spent days waging a "ferocious counterattack", branding Comey a "slimeball" and liar, suggesting he should be jailed for leaking classified information and lying to Congress.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.