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Fresh reporting and later-released testimony showed that on April 11, Trump again pressed FBI Director James Comey to say publicly that he was not personally under investigation. That wasn’t just awkward optics; it was the president trying to muscle the nation’s top law-enforcement investigation into giving him a clean bill of innocence, right in the middle of the Russia cloud.
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Fresh reporting and later-released testimony showed that on April 11, Trump again pressed FBI Director James Comey to say publicly that he was not personally under investigation. That wasn’t just awkward optics; it was the president trying to muscle the nation’s top law-enforcement investigation into giving him a clean bill of innocence, right in the middle of the Russia cloud.
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Fresh reporting and later-released testimony showed that on April 11, Trump again pressed FBI Director James Comey to say publicly that he was not personally under investigation. That wasn’t just awkward optics; it was the president trying to muscle the nation’s top law-enforcement investigation into giving him a clean bill of innocence, right in the middle of the Russia cloud.
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