The biggest political problem hanging over Trump on May 20 was still the one he created on May 9: firing James Comey while the FBI’s Russia probe was active. Fresh reporting had the White House scrambling to explain what Trump told Russian officials about that dismissal, and that only intensified suspicion that the president was treating a criminal investigation as a personal annoyance. The more the administration denied there was a problem, the more it looked like it was hiding from the scale of the problem. That is how you turn a personnel move into a constitutional headache. ([time.com](https://time.com/4786698/president-trump-james-russi…
First recorded May 20, 2017·Meaningfully updated Jun 16, 2017
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More than a month after James Comey was fired, the blowback was still getting worse. June 16 showed that the dismissal had not quieted the Russia story; it had hardened into the central suspicion hanging over the presidency.
More than a month after James Comey was fired, the blowback was still getting worse. June 16 showed that the dismissal had not quieted the Russia story; it had hardened into the central suspicion hanging over the presidency.
The biggest political problem hanging over Trump on May 20 was still the one he created on May 9: firing James Comey while the FBI’s Russia probe was active. Fresh reporting had the White House scrambling to explain what Trump told Russian officials about that dismissal, and that only intensified suspicion that the president was treating a criminal investigation as a personal annoyance. The more the administration d…
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