Judul : Comey told Trump 3 times that he wasn’t under investigation, but his refusal to say so publicly infuriated Trump
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Comey told Trump 3 times that he wasn’t under investigation, but his refusal to say so publicly infuriated Trump
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BI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian Intelligence Activities.
Ousted FBI Director James Comey said he told President Donald Trump on three separate occasions that the president wasn’t personally under a counterintelligence investigation, but Trump was upset that Comey would not say so publicly, according to Comey’s testimony released before his blockbuster Thursday hearing.
In the testimony, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday ahead of the hearing, Comey also explained why he did not publicly announce that Trump was not under investigation in connection to the Russia probe. Chief among the reasons was that “it would create a duty to correct, should that change.”
Comey wrote in his testimony that he first assured Trump that he was not personally under FBI investigation during his first meeting with the president-elect on January 6.
“Prior to the January 6 meeting, I discussed with the FBI’s leadership team whether I should be prepared to assure President-Elect Trump that we were not investigating him personally,” Comey said. “That was true; we did not have an open counter-intelligence case on him. We agreed I should do so if circumstances warranted. During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President-Elect Trump’s reaction to the briefing and without him directly asking the question, I offered that assurance.”
In that briefing, Comey, along with other intelligence officials, briefed Trump on the conclusions the intelligence community came to with regard to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Comey’s next assurance came during his January 27 dinner with Trump. Trump mentioned what Comey referred to as the “salacious material” he had briefed Trump about on January 6, likely meaning the “dossier” of information collected by an ex-British spy that detailed compromising information the Russians allegedly have on Trump.
“As he had done previously, he expressed his disgust for the allegations and strongly denied them,” Comey wrote in the testimony. “He said he was considering ordering me to investigate the alleged incident to prove it didn’t happen. I replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him personally, which we weren’t, and because it was very difficult to prove a negative.”
“He said he would think about it and asked me to think about it,” Comey continued. “As was my practice for conversations with President Trump, I wrote a detailed memo about the dinner immediately afterwards and shared it with the senior leadership team of the FBI.”
The final occasion happened in March, following Comey’s hearing before the House Intelligence Committee when he publicly announced the existence of the FBI investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russians during the election. That investigation began in late July.
“I explained that we had briefed the leadership of Congress on exactly which individuals we were investigating and that we had told those Congressional leaders that we were not personally investigating President Trump,” Comey said. “I reminded him I had previously told him that.”
Trump seemed agitated that Comey did not publicly confirm he was not under investigation.
“He repeatedly told me, ‘We need to get that fact out,'” Comey said. “(I did not tell the President that the FBI and the Department of Justice had been reluctant to make public statements that we did not have an open case on President Trump for a number of reasons, most importantly because it would create a duty to correct, should that change.)”
But Trump also seemed to welcome the FBI’s investigation into his associates, while denying personal responsibility.
“The President went on to say that if there were some ‘satellite’ associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out, but that he hadn’t done anything wrong and hoped I would find a way to get it out that we weren’t investigating him,” Comey wrote.
Trump later said, according to Comey, that the Russia-related “cloud” hanging over his administration “was interfering with his ability to make deals for the country and said he hoped I could find a way to get out that he wasn’t being investigated.”
After Trump fired Comey in early May, he said Comey assured him on three separate occasions that he was not under investigation. Trump repeated that assertion in a TV interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt.
Read more stories on Business Insider, Malaysian edition of the world’s fastest-growing business and technology news website.
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