WH: Trump has been considering Comey firing since election
By Jordan Fabian - 05/10/17 02:17 PM EDT
President Trump had been thinking of firing James Comey from his post as FBI director ever since he was elected in November, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday.
“The president … had lost confidence in Director Comey,” Sanders told reporters. “He’d been considering letting Director Comey go since they day he was elected.”
At the same time, she denied that Trump ordered Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, to come up with a rationale to fire him.
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