During the town hall, Comey said he believes Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, would have made a better president.
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A lawyer for the FBI, Lisa Page was only temporarily on Mueller’s team, but she discussed the investigation with Strzok.
“I’ve taken the position-and I don’t have to take this position, and maybe I’ll change-that I will not be involved with the Justice Department”, Trump said. Now “I didn’t go there”-everybody knows, the logs are there, the planes are there, and he said I didn’t stay there at night”, Trump said on television Thursday”. Almost all Republican senators say Trump should not fire the special counsel. On Fox, he said Trump’s accusations of leaking were “just wrong”.
“When you say to Republicans ‘Why do you work with this president?’ And sit there and say you would still have this job tonight, isn’t there a disconnect there?” “Well his memos said, ‘I left immediately.’ I never said that!” Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the committee, adding to pressure on McConnell.
President Donald Trump fired McCabe in March, after an IG report recommended McCabe’s dismissal.
Trump has seized on the inspector general’s review of the Comey memos to cast doubt as to the legitimacy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Much of his vitriol in his TV remarks was directed at Comey.
Trump laced into Comey as “a leaker” and “a liar”.
On Thursday, Trump tweeted that the newly released memos written by Comey vindicate him.
Clinton is ‘respectful of the norms and traditions that I am so anxious about being eroded today, ‘ Comey said.
When asked if he wanted to know who funded the dossier in particular, Comey replied, “I wanted to know what I knew, which was that it was funded by people politically opposed to Donald Trump, which particular opponents wasn’t that important here”. “I stayed there a very short period of time, but of course I stayed”. The IG has reportedly said that two of the memos contained classified information at the time Comey leaked them past year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Comey’s partially redacted memos, which were released last week, contained some classified information.
The dossier included some salacious details that of activies Trump allegedly engaged in on that trip, a claim Trump has denied.
Flight records and social media posts from that week indicate that Trump did spend at least one night in Russian Federation.
The congressional committees that received the text messages are likely to pour through them to find any information that might shed light on political bias from Strzok and Page as well as their thoughts on the Clinton and Trump investigations.
Comey responded by saying Trump was “simply fallacious” and his assertion was “false”.
“You look at the corruption at the top of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He’s an admiral, highly respected, a real leader”, Trump said.
Fox Information reported final week that the DOJ watchdog was trying into whether or not Comey gave categorized data to unauthorized sources as a part of a broader evaluation of the previous director’s exterior communications, together with with the media.
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Comey has denied that allegation. These texts include the reaction of the two to the firing of FBI Director James Comey on May 9, 2017. “I’ve only seen it in the media”. Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, outlines his point of view about the events that led to him being fired.
