Trump refers to Comey as being an attention seeker, Showboater and a grandstander. These words perfectly describe Trump. Just add a touch of arrogance and you have super rich billionaire showboating and grandstanding President Trump.

Because it would show that he's compromised by a foreign power having salacious sex tapes on him. He could not be relied upon to reasonably fulfill the duties of the office. 

It would be far worse than Bill Clinton getting a BJ from a naive nobody intern in 1998. 

I think the odds of it are reasonably high too. The British spy is somone who's verified by the FBI and CIA to be reliable and they've used intel from him in the past. They also verified parts of the dossier. 

Secondly Trump himself in one of his business books years ago bragged about basically going to Europe for sex (he cites this as one of the reasons why he went bankrupt the first time because he "took his eyes off the ball"). 

Really, it doesn't take much to believe that Russia knowing that he's a billionaire tapped his hotel room. Likely all high profile visitors there are tapped. 

@ bolded

If all the things he has done before don't prove that he is unfit for office, nothing will. That he is unfit was clear long befor the election. I don't see how this completely unacceptable action of a president is any different from the multitude of other unacceptable actions he took the past year.

He will just claim fake news, fire someone and then have his next unacceptable gaffe so people forget about it.

No actually that is an impeachable offence. 

You would be effectively black mailed into doing things that might go against national interest by a foreign power. That is a big, big no, no. That is like 100x worse than Watergate that got Nixon booted. If any of that ever came to light he'd be done. 

You can't "fake news" your way out of that. In any case I think that who Trump train will eventually collapse on itself. His whole appeal was based around being different and "lets give the crazy guy a shot", but generally speaking people are still dissatisfied with Washington, and IMO they will still be in 3 years. The novelty of him will wear off quick. He's all talk and his ideas don't bring any meaningful change to anyone's life, nor does he have any ability to get any reasonable things done (being a complete novice in politics doesn't help). Policy wise he's really at his core just another "give more tax breaks to rich people, cut health care for poor people" Republican. 

All that "running things like a business" was a load of shit. Governing is nothing like running a business. 

I won't hold my breath. A lot of things we thought were unimaginable for a president to do, like not releasing taxt returns, blatant nepotism, lying about basically everything etc. There is most likely another loophole or possiblility to block impeachment procedures to keep him in office that we don't know about yet.

That was his own appeal though ... he was different. But when the results are not there, that whole appeal just leaves a loud-mouthed joke of a characature. 

The other problem is he talked a big, big game. "We're going to win so much you're going to be tired of winning" ... lol, has to be one of the dumbest things ever said by a politician ever, but it's also one of things that can come back to bite you in the ass (ie: read my lips ... no new taxes). 

Being in the pocket of a foreign power is one of those American fears even the Republican congress could not ignore or lose a lot of seats.  I agree that Trump so far has appeared to be immune things that would have sank any other President.  Because he seems immune, he has become more bold and thus sloppy.  The Interview he did was pure ignorance.  He wanted to showboat as he would call it that it was his decision to fire Comey instead of a due process.  Basically he gives all his opponents ammunition if there ever was impeachment on the table.  Right now impeachment is very far away if ever because the Republicans control congress but as things get deeper, if Trump gets more brazen and try to cover up more stuff, it will eventually be enough to open that blind eye of the Republican party.

HILLARY TOO!!! It's crazy all the mental gymnastics people come up with in defending a blatantly corrupt move such as this one. At every egregious move Trump makes, we're always met with a "Hillary would have done the the same/worse" like it's some kind of truth with ZERO point of reference. How do people hit this state of mind? IF, she had done something like this, she should be called out for it. But, since this hasn't happened anyplace but some pocket dimension that crackpots have made up, there's no weight to statements like that.

Well, looks like we know which of the two versions of events we're going to be sticking to; as per the President's morning Twitter rant,

"As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy! Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???"

Riding right past the second part, the first makes it pretty clear that Trump is (unsurprisingly) laying the inaccuracy as the feet of his White House spokespeople, meaning that his version of events- that he was planning to fire Comey anyway, and ultimately the decision had nothing to do with the recommendations of the Attorney General or Deputy- is the one he wants everyone to stick to. So you heard it here, folks, any question about the motives or aims of Sessions or his underling are officially moot point, it's the motives of the President that we should be focusing on. No idea why he wants us to stick to that, but hey, I'm game!

So now we have a president of United States trying to threaten/blackmail a former FBI director on social media to prevent him from saying anything publicly. Yeah nothing shady about any of this.