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President Trump on Friday morning explained the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey as stemming from “a very simple, but important” lie.
“There is no way he can explain his way out of it,” the president said on Truth Social. “He knew exactly what he was saying, and that it was a very serious and far reaching lie for which a very big price must be paid!”
On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted Comey on charges of making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding regarding his 2020 testimony to the Senate.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday dismissed suggestions that the indictment indicates a politicization of the judicial system.
“The wildly false accusations attacking this FBI for the politicization of law enforcement comes from the same bankrupt media that sold the world on Russia Gate — it’s hypocrisy on steroids,” he wrote in a post online.
The president on Friday is at the Ryder Cup golf tournament in Long Island, N.Y.
Congress is out, but wrangling continues as a government shutdown looms on Wednesday. Facing a threat of mass firings from Trump, some Senate Democrats are reconsidering whether to accept a short-term stopgap funding bill.
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