Jake Tapper Reports Lack of ‘Loyalty’ and Russian Investigation Behind Trump’s Sacking of Comey
Source to @jaketapper: 2 reasons Comey was fired
1. Comey never provided Trump w assurance of loyalty
2. FBI’s Russia probe was accelerating pic.twitter.com/vG5bmTCPeg— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) May 10, 2017
President Donald Trump penned a termination letter to FBI Director James Comey, which was released Tuesday afternoon, explaining the official reasons for his firing. But was there more to it?
Citing an unnamed source close to Comey, CNN’s Jake Tapper reports that there were two real reasons that Trump let Comey go just seven days after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer reported that the President had confidence in the FBI Director.
“One, Comey’s refusal to provide the President with any sort of assurance of personal loyalty,” Tapper said. “And two, the fact that the FBI’s investigation into possible Trump-team collusion with Russia in the 2016 election, that that’s still not only an active investigation, it’s actually accelerating.”
Tapper went on to report that “mounting evidence” supports his source’s claim that the Trump fired Comey because of his “irritation with the Russia investigation.”
The Lead host referenced two Trump Tweets from last week which appeared to be kind or at least apathetic to Comey as evidence that Trump’s feeling about the FBI Director may have changed suddenly based on the Russia investigation:
FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds! The phony…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2017
…Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election. Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2017
Watch above, via CNN.
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