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Government Unfiltered

II.D. Events Leading Up To and Surrounding the Termination of FBI Director Comey (Mueller Report)

Government Unfiltered

Dan Williams

Politics, News, Government

4.8993 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Part 4 of 12 from Section II. Factual Results of the Obstruction Investigation. This subsection of Volume 2, pages 62-77, provides the details surrounding the President's decision to fire the FBI Director and the circumstances surrounding his request for Comey's "loyalty."

Events Leading Up To and Surrounding the Termination of FBI Director Comey (0:09)

  1. Comey Testifies Before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Declines to Answer Questions About Whether the President is Under Investigation (1:39)
  2. The President Makes the Decision to Terminate Comey (4:55)

Analysis (20:35)

  1. Obstructive act (20:43)
  2. Nexus to a proceeding (22:54)
  3. Intent (24:38)

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Section 2D.

0:39.9

Events leading up to and surrounding the termination of FBI director Comey.

0:45.2

Overview

0:45.8

Comey was scheduled to testify before Congress on May 3, 2017.

0:51.3

Leading up to that testimony, the president continued to tell advisors that he wanted

0:55.1

Comey to make public that the president was not under investigation. At the hearing,

1:00.7

Comey declined to answer questions about the scope or subjects of the Russia investigation and did not

1:05.5

state publicly that the president was not under investigation. Two days later, on May 5, 2017, the president told

1:13.1

close aides he was going to fire Comey, and on May 9, he did so, using his official termination

1:18.5

letter to make public that Comey had on three occasions informed the president that he was not

1:23.9

under investigation. The president decided to fire Comey before receiving advice or a

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