Fires FBI boss to restore "public trust and confidence"
By DANIEL DALE
Washington Bureau
Tues., May 9, 2017
... In a dizzying rhetorical turnabout, Trump’s administration essentially argued that Comey was unfair to Hillary Clinton in his handling of the investigation of her private email server ...
The New York Times reported that the White House had put Attorney General Jeff Sessions in charge of “coming up with reasons” to fire Comey, building a case since “at least last week.”
Sessions recused himself in March from matters related to the Russia investigation in the wake of the revelation that he had falsely told Congress that he had not had contact with Russian officials during the campaign. But Trump said his decision to dump Comey was .. based on Sessions’s recommendation ...
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/05/09/donald-trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey.html
