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| Donald Trump says he is '100%' willing to testify under oath about his conversations with James Comey | Donald Trump says he is '100%' willing to testify under oath about his conversations with James Comey |
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| Donald Trump says he is “100%” willing to speak under oath about his conversations with ex-FBI chief James Comey. | Donald Trump says he is “100%” willing to speak under oath about his conversations with ex-FBI chief James Comey. |
| The President also accused Mr Comey, fired by Mr Trump last month, of lying in his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. | |
| “...James Comey confirmed a lot of what I said, and some of the things that he said just weren’t true,” Mr Trump said in the White House Rose Garden, during a news conference with the visiting Romanian president. | “...James Comey confirmed a lot of what I said, and some of the things that he said just weren’t true,” Mr Trump said in the White House Rose Garden, during a news conference with the visiting Romanian president. |
| Mr Trump also asserted that Mr Comey's statements before the Senate committee provided no evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice. | |
| During his testimony, Mr Comey said that he believed the President had directed him to drop an FBI investigation in former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. However, the ex-government official wouldn't go so as to say that Mr Trump's words were part of an effort to obstruct. | |
| “[T]hat’s a conclusion I’m sure the special counsel will work towards,” Mr Comey said. | |
| Mr Flynn was forced to resign from his post in February after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with a Russian official. | |
| In his opening statement, Mr Comey said the President had privately told him in the Oval Office a day after Mr Flynn's resignation: “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” | |
| At the time he was fired, Mr Comey was also leading an investigation of whether Trump campaign advisers colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. | |
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