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Claiming "total and complete vindication," President Donald Trump broke his Twitter silence Friday morning to weigh in on fired FBI Director James Comey's closely watched testimony. Trump, who had refrained from tweeting all day Thursday - even as Comey accused his administration of spreading "lies" and suggested Trump had attempted to influence the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election - struck back in an early-morning tweet.
President Donald Trump claims the testimony of fired FBI director James Comey to Congress represents "total and complete vindication" in the Russian election-meddling political scandal. President Donald Trump claims the testimony of fired FBI director James Comey to Congress represents "total and complete vindication" in the Russian election-meddling political scandal.
President Donald Trump asserted Friday that the testimony of fired FBI Director James Comey to Congress represents "total and complete vindication" in the Russian election-meddling political furor. Trump, who had not posted on his Twitter account Thursday as Comey accused the administration of spreading "lies," struck back with an early morning tweet in which he said, "Wow, Comey is a leaker."
Ousted FBI Director James Comey provided a lot of answers during his public testimony before a Senate committee , but he left one substantial question unanswered: How did the FBI know Attorney General Jeff Sessions was going to step aside from the investigation into the Trump campaign's Russia ties? The Justice Department responded late Thursday, saying that after consultations with department ethics officials Sessions recused himself because of his involvement in Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, "for that reason, and that reason alone." The department's statement did not directly respond to Comey's comment that he was "aware of facts" that would make Sessions' continued involvement in the Russia probe problematic.
Fellow Republicans pressed President Donald Trump on Sunday to come clean about whether he has tapes of private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey and provide them to Congress if he does - or possibly face a subpoena, as a Senate investigation into collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice extended to a Trump Cabinet member. It was a sign of escalating fallout from riveting testimony from Comey last week of undue pressure from Trump, which drew an angry response from the president on Friday that Comey was lying.
President Donald Trump speaks during an Infrastructure Summit with U.S. governors And mayors in the State Dining Room of the White House on Thursday. Germany's largest bank told Congress on Thursday that it is not allowed to share any information it may have about President Donald Trump's finances and possible ties to Russia, Reuters reported.
WASHINGTON >> Former FBI Director James Comey asserted Thursday that President Donald Trump fired him to interfere with his investigation of Russia's ties to the Trump campaign, bluntly accusing the White House of spreading “lies, plain and simple.” Comey also revealed that he'd orchestrated the public release of information about his private conversations with the president in an effort to further the investigation. Comey's testimony, at a hugely anticipated congressional hearing that captured the country's attention, provided a gripping account of his interactions with Trump and underscored the deep distrust that had soured their relationship before his stunning firing last month.
Over the scant six months of his presidency, I wonder how often Donald J. Trump has asked himself the question: "Why couldn't I have an FBI Director like J. Edgar Hoover?" J. Edgar and The Donald - now that would have been a marriage made in hell. Like a couple of knife fighters, Trump and J. Edgar certainly would have understood each other.
For all of the things that came into clearer focus with Thursday's testimony from fired FBI Director James Comey, plenty of other questions remain. THE OBSTRUCTION QUESTION >> A central - and unresolved - question from the hearing revolves around whether President Donald Trump was trying to derail the Russia investigation by pressuring, and ultimately firing, the man in charge.
The initial shock and awe phase of the great, unresolved Russia election mystery ended with James Comey's spellbinding testimony. Now a war of political attrition will rage that will further pollute the Washington swamp and confound the nation before special counsel Robert Mueller concludes his probe - however many months or years that takes.
Former FBI Director James Comey came to the Senate intelligence committee ready to unload, one month after President Donald Trump fired him, and he delivered. Comey talked for close to three hours, answering a range of questions about the FBI's Russia investigation, and his private interactions with Trump and his thinking about how he handled the Hillary Clinton email probe.
Former FBI director James Comey walks through a corridor on the way to a secure room to continue his testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 8, 2017. Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump, told the panel in open session that Trump repeatedly pressed him for his "loyalty" and directly pushed him to "lift the cloud" of investigation by declaring publicly the president was not the target of the probe into his campaign's Russia ties.
Comey himself is a controversial figure, having outraged Democrats last year with his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices For three hours, former FBI director James Comey levelled an unrelenting attack on the credibility of the president of the United States. The White House's statements were "lies, plain and simple".
Former Federal Bureau of Investigations Director James Comey departs after testifying before a closed session of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, June 8, 2017. [Photo/Agencies] Former FBI director James Comey accused President Donald Trump on Thursday of firing him to try to undermine its investigation into possible collusion by his campaign team with Russia's alleged efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Fired FBI director James Comey sketched a case on Thursday that President Trump had obstructed justice by directing him to drop the bureau's investigation of former national security advisor Michael Flynn. In his first public comments since Trump forced him out of the agency, Comey described the president's request as "stunning," but consistently maintained that "it's not for me to say" whether Trump had broken the law.
Donald Trump's lawyer says former FBI Director James Comey's testimony about nine private conversations with the president put his client in the clear. Some legal experts say that's wishful thinking.
FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016, file photo, then-FBI Director James Comey, testifies before a House Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee budget hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation's F... . FILE - In this May 3, 2017, file photo, then-FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
President Donald Trump, speaking Thursday at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, said he would never let the evangelical community down, saying that "we are under siege" but that "we will come out bigger and better and stronger than ever." The speech to a fawning audience, which came as fired FBI Director James Comey testified about Trump before the Senate, provided the President with positive feedback on what otherwise was a politically trying day.
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz plans to make a statement following the congressional testimony of former FBI Director James Comey. Trump tasked Kasowitz late last month with responding to matters arising from various probes of Russian interference in the election.
The other day, Michelle Goldberg, writing in Slate , made this excellent point: In response to the argument that ridding the country of President* Donald Trump only would worsen the political polarization in the country, perhaps to the point of actual widespread violence, Goldberg argued that, if we're making decisions of national policy based on that criterion, then we're already very far down a long, dark road that leads, inevitably, to a beer hall in Munich. I've spent five months dodging the notion that the Trump presidency* is something with which the Republic should dispense itself.