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WASHINGTON — Only seven days after F.B.I. director was summoned to the White House for a one-on-one dinner with the new commander in chief. The conversation that night in January, Mr. Comey now believes, was a harbinger of his downfall this week as head of the F.B.I., according to two people who have heard his account of the dinner. As they ate, the president and Mr. Comey made small talk about the election and the crowd sizes at Mr. Trump’s rallies. The president then turned the conversation to whether Mr.

WASHINGTON — President Trump offered a new version of his decision to fire James B. Comey, saying on Thursday that he would have dismissed the F.B.I. director regardless of whether the attorney general and his deputy recommended it. It was just the latest in a series of statements, some of them contradictory, to whiplash Washington over 48 hours that began with Mr.

WASHINGTON — President Trump offered a new version of his decision to fire James B. Comey, saying on Thursday that he would have dismissed the F.B.I. director regardless of whether the attorney general and his deputy recommended it. It was just the latest in a series of statements, some of them contradictory, to whiplash Washington over 48 hours that began with Mr.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein developed the rationale to fire embattled former Jeff Sessions were at the White House for meetings Monday when Trump asked their opinions on the FBI director, Sanders said. Trump then asked them to put their thoughts in writing. "He asked them to put that in writing, the conversation that they had on Monday," Sanders said. "The words that were written weren't at the direction, necessarily, of the president.

President voter suppression in the American election system. Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach were announced today as the Chair and Vice Chair of the bipartisan "Presidential Commission on Election Integrity." "The commission will review policies and practices that enhance or undermine the American people's confidence in the integrity of federal elections and provide the president with a report that identifies system vulnerabilities that lead to improper registrations and voting," Deputy pre

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was so upset with the White House for pinning the firing of FBI Director James Comey on him Wednesday that he was on the verge of resigning, an administration source told ABC News. After Comey's firing Tuesday night, White House officials said President Donald Trump acted on the recommendation of Rosenstein. Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on "letter to staffers and friend

Associates of James Comey are highly skeptical that the former Donald Trump he was not under investigation in the Russia probe as the president claimed in a letter firing Comey. While it is conceivable there was a misunderstanding on Trump's part, the sources said Comey would never have cleared Trump with the investigation still underway. "While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the

Two days after firing FBI Director James Comey, President Donald Trump offered a pointed evaluation of Comey's character and insisted that the determination was made before an evaluation of him by the Department of Justice. "Look, he's a showboat. He's a grandstander," said Trump in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt. "The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that. I know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the FBI a year ago — it was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Donald Trump is dealing with a budding scandal after his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. But even before that, he appears to have hit a new low with the American people. A new poll from Quinnipiac University shows Trump’s disapproval rating rising to 58 percent - a new high in Quinnipiac’s regular polling and the highest in a high-quality, non-tracking poll since his inauguration.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories “We fired him because he said something to the vice president that was not so,” President Trump said of Michael Flynn.  Piece by piece, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe undermined recent White House explanations about the firing of FBI Director James Comey.  President Trump’s official account retweeted O’Donnell’s December comment and stated, “We finally agree on something Rosie.”   The long-awaited panel follows Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations that millions of people voted