This is a golden season for anyone who likes seeing Donald Trump squirm. After a week of terrible news for his lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump once again has to face his life-long nemesis: books. James Comey is officially on tour promoting his memoir, A Higher Loyalty, and even if it's exhaustingly high-minded, his criticism for the president has been blunt.

"Our president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country, the most important being truth," he told George Stephanopoulos in an ABC interview clip that came out on Saturday, his first televised interview since Trump fired him last year. "This president is not able to do that. He is morally unfit to be president."

This isn't news to anyone who's paid attention to Donald Trump's presidency, presidential campaign, professional career, personal life, or anything he's ever said, but Comey is going for the role of the principled truth-teller. He wants Trump out of office, yes, but he has a moral hurdle he wants America to get over first, per his response when Stephanopoulos asked if he thought Trump would be impeached: "I hope not," he said, "because I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook—people in this country need to stand up, go to the voting booth, and vote their values. Impeachment, in a way, would short-circuit that."

Comey made a lot of other statements in the interview that will no doubt comfort and encourage Trump's critics: There's a "non-zero chance" that Russia has incriminating information on Trump, he lies compulsively, he treats women "like meat." But in another part of the same interview, Stephanopoulos asked Comey about his decision to announce a new probe into Hillary Clinton's e-mails less than two weeks before the 2016 election. Specifically, Stephanopoulos wanted to know, was Comey's decision motivated by the assumption that Clinton was definitely going to become president? Comey responded:

It must have been. I don't remember consciously thinking about that, but it must have been. I was operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump. I'm sure that it was a factor. I don't remember spelling it out, but it had to have been. That she's going to be elected president, and if I hide this from the American people, she'll be illegitimate the moment she's elected, the moment this comes out.

This detail is causing a lot of people to rain on Comey's parade, people like Charles Blow at The New York Times, who called Comey's handling of the investigation inexplicable and unforgivable, and Nate Silver:

And the critics have an unexpected ally: Kellyanne Conway. Talking to George Stephanopoulos herself on Monday, Conway enumerated all the reasons Comey was unreliable and untrustworthy, including: "This guy swung an election. He thought the wrong person would win." The rest of Conway's points were baffling and irrelevant, but by far the most oblivious moment was when she claimed, "The president is very confounded that this person is always able to divert the spotlight to him. He has a very deft way of making things about him."

For now, these are the two major Comey camps: In one, he's the noble steward who sacrificed himself in the name of justice, and in the other he's a bungler so concerned with his own reputation that he essentially meddled in an election himself while trying to look unbiased. It goes to show how an entire career can be defined by just one action, even if you spent your tenure at the FBI overseeing the entrapment of mentally handicapped teens in fake terrorism plots.