'He was not doing a good job': Trump on Comey removal

May 10, 2017 21:57

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he fired Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey because "he was not doing a good job."

Trump made his first public remarks since the firing during an Oval Office meeting with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.The White House invited the media in to view the meeting, where reporters shouted questions at Trump.

"He was not doing a good job," Trump said, referring to Comey. "Very simply he was not doing a good job."

Trump did not respond to a reporter's question about whether the new FBI director would be in charge of the bureau's investigation into possible ties between the president's campaign and Moscow.

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