James Comey Reportedly Ready to Testify Trump ‘Pressured Him’ to End Flynn Investigation

Ex-FBI Director James Comey is ready to publicly testify.

A new report from CNN this afternoon says that Comey is ready to testify “as early as next week” on his meetings with President Donald Trump:

An anonymous source “close to the issue” says that Comey will “confirm bombshell accusations that President Donald Trump pressured him to end his investigation into a top Trump aide’s ties to Russia.”

Ever since Comey’s firing, a lot of information has come out in the press––from reports about notes he kept saying Trump wanted him to end the Flynn investigation to more recent reports saying he acted on Russian intel he knew to be fake in the Clinton email probe.

Comey recently spoke with special counsel Robert Mueller, and according to NBC News, Mueller has cleared him to testify:

Breaking: Special Counsel Robert Mueller has cleared James Comey to testify publicly next week, a source close to Comey tells NBC News

— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) May 31, 2017

Comey is expected to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. No official date has been set yet.

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