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8647 Controversy: Why Donald Trump and MAGA hate former FBI director James Comey

IndiaTimes Friday, 16 May 2025
In May 2017, Trump abruptly fired Comey, then serving as FBI Director, claiming he had mishandled the Clinton email probe. But the decision came just days after Comey confirmed that the FBI was investigating possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election — a revelation that fuelled suspicions Trump was trying to obstruct justice.
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