
General and Deputy Attorney General that Comey should be discharged for mishandling
the Hillary Clinton email investigation. But the President had decided to fire
Comey before hearing from the Department of Justice. The day after firing Comey,
the President told Russian officials that he had “faced great pressure because of
Russia,” which had been “taken off by Comey&#x2019;s firing. The next day, the President
acknowledged in a television interview that he was going to fire Comey regardless of the
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