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NBC News' Peter Alexander Reports President Trump Meeting In Oval Office Hours After Firing Former FBI Director James Comey, May 19, 2017
President Trump fired the Director of the FBI, James Comey, on 9 May 2017. According to reports by CNN, before being fired, “Comey was leading the investigation into whether Trump campaign members colluded with Russians who hacked the 2016 election.”
The day after firing Comey, President Trump met with a Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador in the Oval Office. From the Mueller Report, Volume 2 page 71, Trump told the Russians “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job.” Pictures of the Russians and the President in the Oval Office were widely reported. These pictures were taken the day after Comey was fired. Consider the optics of this scene, from the point of view of the FBI, and the point of view of the Russians. Wittingly or not, President Trump gave Putin a significant propaganda gift.
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Headline: President Trump Told Russians Firing James Comey Eased Investigation Pressure (NBC News)