'Enough Was Enough': How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in His Firing
By MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH MAY 10, 2017
WASHINGTON — The countdown to President Trump’s dismissal of James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, began last weekend with an enraged president stewing over Mr. Comey’s testimony to Congress last week, when he admitted to being “slightly nauseous” about doing anything to get Mr. Trump elected.
Mr. Trump, according to people close to the president, had been openly talking about firing Mr. Comey for at least a week. Despite the objections from some of his aides about the optics and the lack of an obvious successor, the grumbling evolved into a tentative plan as he angrily watched the Sunday news shows at his Bedminster, N.J., golf resort.
By Monday, capping off months of festering grievances, Mr. Trump told people around him that he wanted Mr. Comey gone, repeatedly questioning Mr. Comey’s fitness for the job and telling aides there was “something wrong” with him, several people familiar with the discussions said.
A White House spokeswoman on Wednesday offered a different account of how the decision was made to dismiss Mr. Comey. Justice Department officials on Monday urged Mr. Trump to fire Mr. Comey for “atrocities” committed during the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy White House press secretary, told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday. The president merely endorsed that decision, she said.
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