25 May, 2017
While former FBI Director James Comey has remained quiet since Donald Trump fired him, Comey's father apparently has no problems jumping into the ring to take on the "nuts" president.
Comey - who President Trump reportedly called "crazy" and a "nut job" during a closed-door Oval Office meeting with Russian officials earlier this month - will testify publicly before the Senate intelligence committee after Memorial Day, the panel announced yesterday.
According to Spicer, Trump's comments about his Federal Bureau of Investigation director, in which he called him "crazy" and a "nut job", were part of "highly classified" conversation between Trump and the Russians which should not have been leaked. "We have to get back to working our country properly so that we can take care of the problems we have, we have plenty of problems, we've done a fantastic job, we've got a tremendous group of people million and million of people out there that are looking at what you had just said and said what they are doing".
The White House initially said that letter prompted Trump to fire Comey, but Trump later said he had already made a decision to dismiss him and was thinking of "this Russian Federation thing". He was abruptly dismissed last Tuesday by the Republican president, who said the issue was Comey's inability to lead.
The mainstream media have jumped on the as-yet-anonymous reports as additional fuel for their assertions that Trump ousted Comey for investigating his ties with Russian Federation. That was two days after Rosenstein named Mueller as a special counsel to investigate possible coordination between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Capping days of political drama in Washington, Mueller's appointment came as Trump fends off a stunning series of allegations including claims he shared USA secrets with Russian officials in the Oval Office.
They included Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, reports that Trump had previously pressured Comey to end a probe of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and Trump discussing sensitive information on Islamic State with the Russian foreign minister. "That's taken off." The White House says Comey's investigation did create unnecessary pressure on U.S.
A current White House official has been identified as a person of interest by law enforcement investigating possible collusion between Russian Federation and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, NBC News confirmed, citing two USA officials. The first one involves President Trump's conversation with Russia's foreign minister and USA ambassador during their visit to the White House this month. The report did not name the adviser.
The FBI's investigation seeks to determine whether and to what extent Trump associates were in contact with Kremlin operatives, what business dealings they might have had in Russian Federation, and whether they in any way facilitated the hacking and publishing of Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails during the presidential campaign.
Referring to the whole sequence of events leading to Comey's firing, Cummings added: "I think that there may be quite a few people that may have some problems with the law". USA intelligence agencies all believe that the Russian government conducted covert operations to influence the 2016 presidential election in Trump's favor.
Flynn's contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign, as well as his work for the Turkish government, are under investigation.
Russian media was invited to the meeting between Lavrov, Kislyak and Trump.
Despite initially opposing appointment of an independent counsel, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that the development "helps assure people and the Justice Department that they're going to go do their jobs independently and thoroughly, which is what we've called for all along". He also said that the appointment of a special counsel was part of what he described as the "single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history".
I think that the charge should be looked into, but I'm also confident that there was no collusion, and that Trump won fair and square.
