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President Trump tackles James Comey on Twitter as 'cowardly' The president blasts Comey on Twitter as his son on TV labels the ex-FBI director ''a liar' Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2sc7xkY WASHINGTON - President Trump called James Comey "cowardly" and Donald Trump Jr. described the ousted FBI director as "a dishonest man of bad character" as the White House braced to deal with continuing fallout from the Russian investigations. The president seized not on Comey's account of his private meetings with Trump but rather on his acknowledgement before the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday that he had a friend leak his contemporaneous memo about what happened to a New York Times reporter.
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.
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 FY 2017 budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Comey will testify that President Donald Trump sought his "loyalty" and asked what could be done to "lift the cloud" of investigation shadowing his White House, according to prepared remarks released ahead of his appearance on Capitol Hill on June 8, 2017.
With some Members of Congress talking about removing the tax exemption for municipal bonds as part of larger tax reform measures, the public power community must ensure that lawmakers understand all the benefits that flow from tax-exempt municipal bonds. In 2017, the American Public Power Association has ramped up advocacy efforts to maintain the tax exemption for municipal bonds.
After J. Edgar Hoover's death 45 years ago, personal secretary Helen Gandy spent more than two months in the FBI director's house on a leafy Northwest Washington street rifling through his personal files - the most powerful archive of blackmail material on presidents, politicians and pundits compiled in American history. Gandy had served Hoover for the almost five decades that he ran the bureau, and she either trashed or stashed the most damning details in places that remain unknown to this day.
In a flash, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan walked by and touched the arm of Lafayette native Brittany Dupree. That was one moment for the congressional intern One Lafayette student's stint on Capitol Hill In a flash, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan walked by and touched the arm of Lafayette native Brittany Dupree.
Sen. Jeff Sessions is sworn in to testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to become U.S. attorney general on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10, 2017. Photo courtesy of Reuters/Kevin Lamarque Today in Chicago, The Tribune blistered the former U.S. senator from Alabama with an editorial in which the editors said, "We share Sessions' low tolerance for drug traffickers and his concern for the violence they inflame.
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing on the FBI on Capitol Hill May 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. The White House and Justice Department broke a Senate committee's Wednesday deadline to turn over any records detailing conversations between President Trump and James Comey before the FBI director's abrupt firing earlier this month, instead requesting more time to respond to lawmakers' demands.
Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, before the House Budget Committee hearing on President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget. Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, before the House Budget Committee hearing on President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget.
Mark Green, second from left, president of the International Republican Institute, testifies in 2014 before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images hide caption Mark Green, second from left, president of the International Republican Institute, testifies in 2014 before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill.
In the world of political Washington, one of the most foreboding things that can happen to anyone is to have their boss say they're 100 percent behind them. President Donald Trump's peremptory firing of James Comey is a complete homemade mess enabling a long list of the usual congressional suspects of both parties, who dislike this president anyway, to strut, preen and opine on this week's hot topic while avoiding normal duties.
The White House is seen in Washington, Tuesday night, May 9, 2017. President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey on May 9, 2017, ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling.
In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo, FBI Director James Comey prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump abruptly fired Comey May 9, 2017, dramatically ousting the nation's top law enforcement official in the midst of an FBI investigation into whether Trump's campaign had ties to Russia's election meddling.
Geoduck clams are kept fresh in seawater after being harvested near Harstine Island, Wash., in Puget Sound in this March 23, 2015, file photo. Washington state officials, environmental advocates and others are warning of dire environmental and economic consequences if President Donald Trump's cuts to Puget Sound and other environmental programs go through as proposed in his first budget.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gives a thumbs up during a ceremony at UNLV Thursday, April 20, 2017. Reid was officially named as the first Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at UNLV's Boyd School of Law.
In this photo taken Feb. 28, 2017, a flag flies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lawmakers return to Washington this week to a familiar quagmire on health care legislation and a budget deadline dramatized by the prospect of a protracted battle between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over his border wall.
The leader of a bipartisan good-government group, Zach Wamp, headed to the White House last week to ask whether President Donald Trump's "drain the swamp" slogan would ever be more than a throwaway campaign slogan. One of the president's closest aides, Steve Bannon, assured him it's a priority.
The leader of a bipartisan good-government group, Zach Wamp, headed to the White House last week to ask whether President Donald Trump's "drain the swamp" slogan would ever be more than a throwaway campaign slogan. One of the president's closest aides, Steve Bannon, assured him it's a priority.
Ninety percent of brain development occurs before the age of 5. Only 1 percent of the United States budget is typically allocated to foreign aid. The teens recited those facts, among many others, on behalf of the Save The Children Network in Washington D.C. at the annual Invest In Kids Advocacy Summit March 26-28.
AIPAC's byword is bipartisanship and, as we reported this week, that's a hard sell in the increasingly polarized Trump era . Still, AIPAC remains the preeminent pro-Israel lobby and its conferences have been a reliable weathervane of where US Middle East policy is headed for the next six months.