House Speaker Paul Ryan said it’s \u00ab\u00a0obviously\u00a0\u00bb inappropriate for President Donald Trump to have asked ousted FBI Director James Comey to pledge his loyalty.<\/b>
\nIn it, the former FBI official — who was leading the probe into Russia’s meddling into the 2016 election — wrote that Trump told him \u00ab\u00a0I expect loyalty.\u00a0\u00bb Comey said the President also asked him to stop investigating former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and publicly declare that Trump was not under investigation.
\u00ab\u00a0FBI directors are supposed to be independent, \u00a0\u00bb Ryan said of the Trump-Comey interactions. \u00ab\u00a0That’s something that’s very, very critical.\u00a0\u00bb
Trump announced on Twitter his plans to nominate Christopher A. Wray, the former assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s criminal division, to be the next FBI director.
\u00ab\u00a0Wray … seems to fit the bill for an independent prosecutor career professional type, \u00a0\u00bb Ryan said. \u00ab\u00a0Because we typically look for someone who is going to be independent, but also that position is treated independently.\u00a0\u00bb
The Republican lawmaker added that it’s clear Russia meddled in the US election.
\u00ab\u00a0What we need to determine is not whether they did it — we know that, \u00a0\u00bb Ryan said. \u00ab\u00a0It’s what did they do, how did they do it, how do we prevent it from happening again? And then how do we help our allies so that this doesn’t happen to them?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

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