Trump drew attention to Comey’s testimony, which revealed that the FBI was investigating members of his campaign as early as July 2016.
President Donald Trump lashed out at James Comey on Twitter on Sunday morning, dismissing the former FBI director’s Friday testimony before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees as “untruthful” and calling the Russia investigation he discussed a “Rigged Fraud.”
The closed-door testimony — which was released as a redacted transcript on Saturday following a legal dispute over the private nature of the interview — appears to have upset the president, who tweeted that “Leakin’ James Comey must have set a record for who lied the most to Congress in one day. His Friday testimony was so untruthful!”
Trump claimed that Comey “told House investigators he didn’t know, didn’t recall, or couldn’t remember things when asked” on 245 occasions — a number he might have picked up from watching one Republican committee member’s appearance on Fox News.
While there was plenty of Clinton/email content for Trump to draw upon (as Comey told reporters after the hearing, “When you read the transcript, you will see that we are talking again about Hillary Clinton’s emails, for heaven’s sakes”), the president drew attention instead to Comey’s statements that he opened investigations into four Americans affiliated with the Trump campaign in summer 2016. Trump tweeted that was “all lies!” (Comey had publicly confirmed the FBI was looking into possible collusion back in March 2017 .
