President Donald Trump on Friday forcefully accused former FBI Director James Comey of lying under oath in a series of fiery, sometimes disjointed responses.
The president said he would “be glad” to state his case to Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing a broad investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Trump abruptly fired Comey last month as he oversaw that FBI investigation.
“Yesterday showed no collusion, no obstruction, he’s a leaker,” Trump said of Comey at a White House press conference, saying he wants to “get back to running our great country.”
Trump and his surrogates have undermined Comey’s credibility on some assertions, while pointing to other parts of Comey’s testimony as evidence that the president has engaged in no wrongdoing.
Trump said he would “100 percent” speak under oath to refute Comey’s dramatic Thursday testimony.
In one heated exchange with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl — whom he called on after asking whether to choose “one of the killer networks that treat me so badly” — Trump denied various points of Comey’s testimony.
He also claimed that he “hardly” knows Comey. The former FBI director said the pair had nine one-on-one conversations from January to April.
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