Eight days of fury: Paper trail exposes FBI bid to probe Trump as Russian asset for firing Comey
Politics,Donald Trump,Russia,James Comey,Collusion,FBI
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The latest declassified documents relating to the FBI's politically motivated investigations into President Donald Trump revealed that the Bureau secretly investigated Trump for alleged ties to Russia over his firing of then-FBI Director James Comey.
As Just the News' John Solomon reported Wednesday, the electronic communication opening the probe was sent on May 16, 2017 – a mere week after Trump fired Comey. The FBI knew that the firing had nothing to do with Russia, yet investigated the sitting president anyway.
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