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WH: James Comey Committed ’Atrocities’ as FBI Director

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The White House said James Comey committed "atrocities" as FBI Director during a conference with Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Huckabee Sanders said President Donald Trump considered firing director James Comey since "day one," but made his final decision after receiving written and verbal feedback from Justice Department officials.

"I think also having a letter like the one he received and having that conversation that outlined the basic, just, atrocities in circumventing the chain of command in the Department of Justice ... When he saw that, he had to speak up on that action, and I think that was the final catalyst," Huckabee Sanders said.

The comments came as the deputy press secretary scrambled to answer questions about when - and why -Trump made the unexpected decision to fire Comey.

The announcement, made early Tuesday evening, sparked concerns about the FBI's ongoing investigation into possible Trump campaign ties to Russia.

Huckabee Sanders claimed on Wednesday that Trump had lost confidence in Comey "since the day he was elected." Asked why White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had said Comey had the "full confidence" of the president just weeks before, Huckabee Sanders allowed that several recent events had influenced the president's decision.

Most importantly, Sanders said, multiple Justice Department officials expressed their doubts about Comey in a meeting with the president. Trump asked the officials to put their concerns - what Huckabee Sanders referred to as "atrocities" - in writing. Some of these concerns were later made public, in the form of letters from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team