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President Trump tore into James Comey on Thursday night, hours after the former FBI director suggested in a wide-ranging CNN town hall that he be prosecuted.
Trump knocked Comey in a tweet as "a disgrace to the FBI" while predicting that he "will go down as the worst Director in its long and once proud history."
"He brought the FBI down, almost all Republicans & Democrats thought he should be FIRED, but the FBI will regain greatness because of the great men & women who work there!" he added.
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The remarks were the latest salvo in the pair's fractious relationship and came exactly two years after Trump fired Comey, the law enforcement official who at the time was leading the federal probe into the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-rips-comey-after-cnn-town-hall-he-brought-the-fbi-down/ar-AABaf0L?item=delivery_service_enabled:false&item=personalization_enabled:false
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struggle4progress
(118,288 posts)By Philip Bump
April 18, 2018
... Trump told NBCs Lester Holt shortly after Comey was fired that the Russia investigation was central to his decision.
Rosenstein made a recommendation, Trump said, but regardless of recommendation I was going to fire Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. And in fact, when I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/04/18/trumps-tweet-on-firing-comey-is-thoroughly-debunked-by-donald-trump/?utm_term=.505917b65be8