Trump abruptly relieved Comey of his duties Tuesday.
"Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election", Trump wrote on Twitter. And though the White House has asserted Comey lost the backing of rank-and-file agents, McCabe flatly said, "that is not accurate".
President Donald Trump warned ousted FBI Director James Comey on Friday not to "leak" details of their conversations, suggesting that they may have been taped and could contradict his account.
She tweeted directly at him, suggesting that those who had worked for Comey at the Federal Bureau of Investigation were loyal, and that Trump would be facing a world of hurt. In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security says it believes that "based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities".
"It's shocking to the conscience". "After watching Director Comey's testimony last Wednesday, the president was strongly inclined to remove him", she said.
Since the election, Comey has publicly confirmed that there was an ongoing FBI investigation into Trump associates and collusion with Russian Federation; he disputed under oath the president's baseless claim that President Barack Obama ordered his team to be wiretapped; and on May 3, Comey said before Congress that he was "mildly nauseous" that he may have swung the election after coming forward days before the election to say that he was reopening the Clinton email investigation.
Comey has not publicly discussed any conversations he has had with Trump. Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe sidestepped a question during a Senate hearing on Thursday on whether he ever heard Comey tell Trump that the president was not the subject of investigation.
NHS hit by 'cyber attack', at least one hospital shut down
There is no evidence patient data has been compromised, NHS Digital has said. NHS England described the incident as a "ransomware" attack.
The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, Richard Durbin, slammed the President after Friday's tweets, telling MSNBC that the President is "dangerous because he may be obstructing justice in terms of the investigation. and secondly his credibility has been destroyed". Trump, meanwhile, takes a different view, tweeting that Comey "gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!"
The president tweeted, "As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with ideal accuracy!" "Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???"
In mentioning the Russian Federation probe as part of his rationale, Trump seemed to contradict White House claims that Comey was sacked for his handling of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices, which ended a year ago. Later, however, they said that Trump had planned to fire Comey regardless.
In announcing Comey's dismissal on Tuesday, the White House released documents from the attorney general and the deputy attorney general that outlined why Comey should be fired.
However, in his first interview following Comey's firing, Trump painted a somewhat different picture when he suggested that the decision was his. "I want that to be so strong and so good and I want it to happen", he said.
U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged on Thursday that he had asked the head of the nation's prime law enforcement agency whether he was being investigated.
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