'It still feels a little bit numbing, frankly, like it happened yesterday and a lifetime ago,' says former FBI Director James Comey of his firing by President Trump exactly two years ago today. ComeyTownHall
He announced — less than two weeks before the presidential election — that the bureau would investigate more emails potentially related to Hillary Clinton's private server.When then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was hospitalized in 2004, Bush officials rushed to his side in an effort to have him sign off on an extension to the wiretapping program, which Justice Department attorneys had deemed illegal, according to Comey's account.
Comey was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate as FBI director in July 2013 with a 93-1 vote, and served until his firing on May 9, 2017. Comey has been a harsh critic of Trump, and said at a previous CNN town hall,"I don't believe he is morally fit to be president of the United States." In October 2016, less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Comey announced the FBI would investigate more emails potentially related to Clinton's private server. Clinton later said she believes the decision cost her the
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