--- title: Donald Trump Tweets About Comey, Democrats and Fake News description: The President attacked James Comey, Democrats and the media in a series of early morning tweets canonical: https://time.com/4813966/donald-trump-james-comey-leak-tweets/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-11T14:14:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:05:49.130Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump: James Comey Leak Was 'Very Cowardly' og:description: The President attacked James Comey, Democrats and the media this morning og:url: https://time.com/4813966/donald-trump-james-comey-leak-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eef304002379d58/6988d129ab6d772f0e6ae80d/trump-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Holds News Conference With President Of Romania Klaus Iohannis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump: James Comey Leak Was 'Very Cowardly' twitter:description: The President attacked James Comey, Democrats and the media this morning twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eef304002379d58/6988d129ab6d772f0e6ae80d/trump-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump: James Comey Leak Was 'Very Cowardly' by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jun 11, 2017 2:14 PM UTC  U.S. President Donald Trump holds a joint news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Rose Garden at the White House June 9, 2017 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump holds a joint news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Rose Garden at the White House June 9, 2017 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla--Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jun 11, 2017 2:14 PM UTC President Trump once again took to Twitter Sunday to denounce revelations from former FBI director James Comey’s congressional testimony — calling it “very cowardly” to coordinate the [leaking of one of his memos to the press](http://time.com/4811044/james-comey-testimony-media-leaks/) shortly after he was fired. The President also questioned the legality of Comey’s leak — echoing his tweets from last week where he said he felt[ “complete vindication”](http://time.com/4812412/comey-testimony-trump-vindication/) after reading Comey’s testimony. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/873879934040780801) Trump’s early morning tweetstorm started with him deriding the “#FakeNews” media. He fumed that the press hasn’t been covering the “great economic news” since he was elected including that both the DOW and NASDAQ are up, [unemployment is down](http://time.com/4802874/unemployment-rate-may-2017-jobs-report/) and [new jobs have been added](http://time.com/money/4640938/donald-trump-job-creation-announcements-ford-walmart-amazon/) to the economy. And he’s not wrong. Since he took office, the stock market has reached record highs, unemployment is at 4.3% and approximately 501,000 private sector jobs have been added since January, according to [CNNMoney](http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/01/news/economy/trump-1-million-private-sector-jobs-paris-speech/index.html). > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/873878061778907137) Trump concluded the morning tweets with an attack on Democrats, calling them “obstructionists.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/873884774041079808) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4813966/donald-trump-james-comey-leak-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4813966/donald-trump-james-comey-leak-tweets/"},"headline":"President Trump: James Comey Leak Was 'Very Cowardly'","datePublished":"2017-06-11T14:14:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:05:49.130Z","description":"The President attacked James Comey, Democrats and the media this morning","url":"https://time.com/4813966/donald-trump-james-comey-leak-tweets/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eef304002379d58/6988d129ab6d772f0e6ae80d/trump-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eef304002379d58/6988d129ab6d772f0e6ae80d/trump-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Holds News Conference With President Of Romania Klaus Iohannis","caption":"President Trump Holds News Conference With President Of Romania Klaus Iohannis","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla--Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4813966/donald-trump-james-comey-leak-tweets/","name":"President Trump: James Comey Leak Was 'Very Cowardly'"}}]}] ```