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   From: jane.fonda.communists@cnn.com   
      
   Former FBI director James Comey on Thursday accused President   
   Donald Trump on Thursday of firing him to try to undermine the   
   bureau's investigation into possible collusion between his 2016   
   presidential campaign team and Russia.   
      
   Trump dismissed Comey on May 9 and the administration gave   
   differing reasons for the action. Trump later contradicted his   
   own staff and acknowledged on May 11 that he fired Comey because   
   of the Russia probe.   
      
   Asked at a U.S. congressional hearing why he was fired, Comey   
   said he did not know for sure. But he added: "Again, I take the   
   president's words. I know I was fired because of something about   
   the way I was conducting the Russia investigation was in some   
   way putting pressure on him, in some way irritating him, and he   
   decided to fire me because of that."   
      
   Comey earlier told the Senate Intelligence Committee in the most   
   eagerly anticipated U.S. congressional hearing in years that he   
   believed Trump had directed him to drop an FBI probe into the   
   Republican president's former national security adviser as part   
   of the Russia investigation.   
      
   But Comey would not say whether he thought the president sought   
   to obstruct justice.   
      
   Comey said the administration had told lies and defamed him and   
   the FBI after the president dismissed him.   
      
   https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN18Z0HC   
       
      
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