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Section 2D.

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

Overview

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

Leading up to that testimony, the president continued to tell advisors that he wanted Comey to make public that the president was not under investigation.

At the hearing, Comey declined to answer questions about the scope or subjects of the Russia investigation and did not state publicly that the president was not

under investigation. Two days later, on May 5, 2017, the president told close aides he was going

to fire Comey, and on May 9, he did so, using his official termination letter to make public

that Comey had on three occasions informed the president that he was not under investigation.

The president decided to fire Comey before receiving advice or a recommendation from the Department of Justice,

but he approved an initial public account of the termination that attributed it to

a recommendation from the Department of Justice based on Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation.

After Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein resisted attributing the firing to his recommendation,

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