President Trump has fired FBI Director Comey
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Trump says Comey’s firing ‘will mark a new beginning for the FBI”.
Tuesday afternoon, the Trump administration announced in a statement that it has fired FBI James Comey. This comes shortly after Comey was corrected for his remarks related to the re-opening of the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation last October.
Comey recently testified on Capitol Hill about the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election and possible working relationships between Russia and Trump’s campaign.
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The White House says the search for a new FBI director will begin immediately.
Comey’s tenure at the FBI will me defined by controversial re-opening of the Clinton e-mail investigation just two weeks before the 2016 election, a move that many believed shifted the vote, especially with Republican moderates, dramatically and unfairly to the Trump camp.
Comey was appointed to FBI Director in 2013 by former President Obama.
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