Sacked FBI chief Comey plots strike at Trump in congress
Source: The Australian Times
Toby Harnden
The Times
12:00AM May 15, 2017
Although Mr Comey has declined to appear before the Senate intelligence committee at a closed hearing this Wednesday, he has made clear via friends that he wants to strike back against Mr Trump in an open session that could be one of the most-watched events in US political history.
Mr Trump’s “tape” comment was a reference to conflicting accounts of a one-on-one dinner he had with the FBI chief on January 27, a week after inauguration. Mr Comey, a Republican who cherishes his image as an independent, measured and lawyerly figure, was nervous about the encounter with the blustering property billionaire.
Holed up in his mansion in McLean, Virginia, last week, with photographers camped outside, Mr Comey told friends he believed his fate had been sealed at the dinner, though it was three months later that Mr Trump finally dispensed with him.
According to Mr Trump, Mr Comey’s account of the dinner is fabrication. The President has claimed it was Mr Comey who asked for the meeting, and during the meal he begged to be kept in his job, which he began in July 2013 and which traditionally carries a 10-year term.
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