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struggle4progress

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Thu May 11, 2017, 11:05 PM May 2017

Thinking of Russia controversy when he decided to fire Comey

By Devlin Barrett and Philip Rucker May 11 at 8:09 PM

President Trump on Thursday said he was thinking of “this Russia thing with Trump” when he decided to fire FBI Director James B. Comey, who had been leading the counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

Recounting his decision to dismiss Comey, Trump told NBC News, “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, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.’”

Trump’s account flatly contradicts the White House’s initial account of how the president arrived at his decision, undercutting public denials by his aides that the move was influenced in any way by his growing fury with the ongoing Russia probe ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-says-fbi-director-comey-told-him-three-times-he-wasnt-under-investigation-once-in-a-phone-call-initiated-by-the-president/2017/05/11/2b384c9a-3669-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html

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Thinking of Russia controversy when he decided to fire Comey (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2017 OP
Sounds like admitted obstruction of justice... intent etc. If he was Joe Blow he'd be in jail by now uponit7771 May 2017 #1
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