• Andrew Weissmann will publish memoir next week
  • ‘You could almost feel the spittle coming off the paper,’ he writes

Donald Trump’s original draft statement justifying his firing of the former FBI director James Comey was “tinfoil helmet material”, according to a top prosecutor who worked for the special counsel Robert Mueller, and who in a new book calls the draft “excruciatingly juvenile, disorganized and brimming with spite, incoherent and narcissistic”.

Related: Mueller too timid in Trump-Russia investigation, top prosecutor claims

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