seemed to really try to focus on the inspector general report as if references to the fact that i was caught, really interesting in light of the fact that we knew for quite some time, and i ve known for quite some time, that the president was very focused on removing me long before there was an inspector general investigation, and certainly long before that report was ever finished. in fact the president s draft letter firing jim comey mentioned the fact that comey had not fired you as one of the reasons for firing comey. that s right. that s right. so it wasn t disturbing enough to have the president raise me with former director comey on three separate occasions across their somewhat awkward personal interactions. he would bring my name up and say what s the story with that guy, does he have a problem with me. and then of course that culminates with his reference in the letter as one of the reasons why he was firing director comey, because of director comey s failure to fire me.
the former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe documented a meeting alleging the numbers, rod rosenstein said president trump wanted him to include russia in the memo use with the fbi director james comey. rosenstein, we are told, declined by the sources said rosenstein gave a copy of a draft letter firing call me written by president trump. that letter has since been passed on to special counsel robert mueller. writing on twitter today, the president said, not that it matters but i never fired james comey because of russia. the corrupt mainstream media loves to keep pushing that narrative. but they know it is not true. earlier on fox, the president s spokesman went further. he said on national television, it s because of james comey s handling of the codes and investigation. the letter that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein sent him. there are a number of reasons. these leaked confidential information. he gave false statements under oath to congress. mccabe testified on