By Lachlan Markav, Asawin Suebsaeng and Jana Winter.
If you come at James Comey, you best not miss.
The former FBI director—who President Donald Trump fired and then later threatened on Twitter
last week—reportedly kept notes of their conversations, and some of
those details are now making their way into public view. According to
one of those memos, first reported by The New York Times on Tuesday, the president urged Comey to drop the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s former national security adviser.
The White House, through an anonymous press statement, flatly denied the Times’
reporting, which has since been confirmed by several other media
organizations. (The Daily Beast could not immediately do so
independently.) But the reported details already have some—including
attorneys, members of Congress, and law enforcement officials—suggesting
criminal wrongdoing.
“The obstruction of justice articles of
impeachment counts are stacking up, it seems,” an active duty FBI agent
told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. Firing Comey, the agent added, was a
“big gamble. You’ve got to kill him, metaphorically. You can’t just
wound him.”
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