The Score? Comey won, Trump zero.

The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, interviewed the former F.B.I. director James Comey for “The New Yorker Radio Hour.” On the stage of the Town Hall Theatre (midtown Manhattan), Comey reviewed the most contentious decisions he made as F.B.I. director during 2016.

“I think he has an emptiness inside of him, and a hunger (craving) for affirmation, that I’ve never seen in an adult,” Comey told Remnick at one point. “It’s all, ‘What will fill this hole?’ ”

Last May, Trump fired Comey. Comey leaked to the press that Trump had urged him to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn. Since then, save for the stray tweet here and there, Comey has stayed out of the headlines. The publication of his memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” has given Comey the opportunity to revisit his tenure as F.B.I. director.

While Comey declined to answer some questions—like the biggest areas of legal jeopardy for Trump—he was unequivocal at other moments. Speaking of the recent pardon of Scooter Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, Comey said, "That pardon is an attack on the rule of law."

When Remnick asked Comey to comment on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s silence after Trump fired him, Comey said that the question that they needed to ask themselves is, “ ‘What am I going to tell my grandchildren?’ ”

Remnick asked Comey if he believed Trump was a bigot. The President’s “moral equivalence” in the wake of white-supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer was “shameful.” The audience interrupted him to applaud.

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Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is planning to sue the Trump administration for defamation and wrongful termination.



McCabe’s lawyer Michael Bromwich told reporters that “We’ll file when we’re ready.”

The attorney also announced the launch of a legal defense fund for McCabe's legal costs.

Bromwich also accused Trump, of "continuing slander."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe last month after an inspector general report found he made an unauthorized disclosure to the media.

McCabe denied the allegations and said he was being targeted in an effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia's election interference.

The Justice Department released a report last week of McCabe's conduct at the FBI, alleging that he authorized a leak to the press.

Trump called the report a "disaster" for McCabe.

Horowitz issued a criminal referral to the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. on Thursday related to McCabe’s conduct that his attorney called "unjustified."

Wait, and see.