Comey failed to be candid with Trump on the source of dirty dossier which he misleadingly presented as an intelligence report

Rowan Scarborough:

Fired FBI Director James Comey has acknowledged that he never told Donald Trump that the dossier on which his bureau relied to investigate the president was financed by the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton campaign.

Promoting his book, “A Higher Loyalty,” Mr. Comey talked to ABC News about his seminal moment with President-elect Trump at Trump Tower on Jan. 6, 2017. He informed Mr. Trump about the dossier’s most salacious unproven charge — that in 2013 the future president entertained prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.

Mr. Comey presented the allegation to Mr. Trump as an intelligence report, keeping him in the dark about it being a piece of opposition research by ex-British spy Christoper Steele. Mr. Steele had told a Justice Department contact during the election that he was “desperate” to destroy the presidential candidate.

Republicans have blasted the FBI for relying on the dossier’s discredited charges to investigate scores of Trump associates.

Trump supporters say that if Mr. Comey had been forthcoming on Jan. 6 the White House from the start would have been in a better position to defend itself against dossier allegations of Russian collusion. To this day, they remain unconfirmed publicly. Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey the following May.

Mr. Comey also did not tell the president that the Democratic Party dossier had been used by the FBI to obtain a surveillance warrant on Trump volunteer Carter Page. In fact, later that month, the FBI again used the dossier to garner a second of four court-approved wiretap warrants on Mr. Page, who denies all the dossier charges against him.

The dossier went on to become a favorite talking point for the liberal news media and for Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, without a hint the supposed dirt was paid for by the DNC and Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. The dossier has guided the FBI investigation under Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

It wasn’t until nearly a year later, that Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, used subpoenas to force the DNC to reluctantly admit it funded the project and paid Mr. Steele through the investigative firm Fusion GPS.
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This was a failure to disclose material facts to the President of the United States.  For that alone Comey deserved to be fired.  Comey was also in the process of using the document to spy indirectly on the President because of the broad nature of the FISA warrant he got on Carter Page which included all of Page's communications with anyone in the campaign.   It is not at all surprising that Trump would consider the guy a dishonest weasel.