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WASHINGTON The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has obtained a letter that President Trump and a top political aide drafted in the days before Mr. Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, which explains the presidents rationale for why he planned to dismiss the director.
The May letter had been met with opposition from Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, who believed that some of its contents were problematic, according to interviews with a dozen administration officials and others briefed on the matter.
Mr. McGahn successfully blocked the president from sending Mr. Comey the letter, which Mr. Trump had composed with Stephen Miller, one of the presidents top political advisers. A different letter, written by the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, and focused on Mr. Comeys handling of the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server, was ultimately sent to the F.B.I. director on the day he was fired.
The contents of the original letter appears to provide the clearest rationale that Mr. Trump had for firing Mr. Comey. It is unclear how much of Mr. Trumps rationale focuses on the Russia investigation, although Mr. Trump told aides at the time he was angry that Mr. Comey refused to publicly say that Mr. Trump himself was not under investigation. Mr. Comey later said in testimony to Congress that the president was not under investigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/politics/trump-comey-firing-letter.html?_r=0
Let's drag that Nazi prick Miller into it!
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)No telling what he gives as the reason before the Rosenstein letter and the Lester Holt interview.