by Itunuoluwa Adebo
President Trump speaking to NBC News, gave his first in-depth remarks since the ousting of Comey on Tuesday evening. He called fired FBI Director James Comey, a “showboat” and “grandstander.”
“Look he’s a showboat, he’s a grandstander,” Trump said. “The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that, I know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the FBI a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil less than a year ago. It hasn’t recovered from that.” He said he had planned to fire Comey for some time, but “there’s no good time to do it by the way.”
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Comey was terminated after Trump received a written recommendation from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Comey’s direct superior. The memo cited Comey’s mishandling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server as the primary cause for a loss of confidence. In reference to Rosenstein’s document, Trump said “I was going to fire regardless of recommendation,” claiming it didn’t weigh the scale against Comey.
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He repeated his assertion in the letter firing Comey, that the former FBI head had told Trump on three separate occasions that he was not personally under investigation regarding any possible collusion with Russian officials.
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