'Had I not fired James Comey—who was a disaster, by the way—it's possible I wouldn't even be standing here right now,' the president told members of his administration and Republican lawmakers gathered at the White House about his former FBI director.
Celebrating his recent acquittal by the Senate, President Donald Trump on Thursday flaunted his decision years ago to fire former FBI Director James Comey.
The president suggested that the choice in May 2017 to abruptly oust Comey, who refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump upon a request to do so amid former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian election meddling, aided his impeachment survival. Trump was acquitted of two articles of impeachment—abuse of power and obstruction of Congress—by the Senate on Wednesday, a vote that once again highlighted the GOP's loyalty to him by having just one Republican defector—Sen.
He railed against"top scum" at the FBI, including Comey and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who made disparaging remarks about him during his reelection and amid an affair the two were having. Trump believes those individuals were part of a broader effort by an unknown coalition of"dirty cops" and officials at the highest levels of the United States government to prevent him from being elected.
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