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The basis for Comey’s 290-pages of obsessive vitriol, due to hit bookshelves on Tuesday, is simple. Comey wanted to make sure there wasn’t an American still alive who didn’t know he hated Trump with a passion.

Those who hate Trump with equal vigour — the mainstream media, the progressives, the Hollywood elites — will naturally love it.

For the rest of us, it’s old news.

There appeared, however, that there was no road too low to go when it comes to Comey, who even took to physical ridicule to discredit Trump.

“His face appeared slightly orange with bright white half-moons under his eyes where I assumed he placed small tanning goggles,” wrote Comey. “(He had) impressively coiffed, bright blond hair, which upon close inspection looked to be all his.”

Photo by Alex Brandon / AP

This comes from a man who once headed the most powerful police and investigation force in the United States, not some two-bit gossip columnist for a supermarket rag where aliens dominate the front pages.

Who, therefore, is the embarrassment here?

It is mind-boggling how people continue to misunderstand Trump.

He has called NAFTA the worst deal ever, accused it of ripping off billions from America, and how he wanted to tear it up.

Now, suddenly, a deal is possible.

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The mainstream media, in particular, continue to loathe him so much that they refuse to see that Trump employs symbolic messaging to get what he wants. He lays out his intentions, publicly flaunts his willingness to be disagreeable on just about everything, and then sits back to watch it all play out as the situations shift closer to what he wants.