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Article snippet: MORE’s first year in office has produced a relentless stream of controversies. Trump’s willingness to flout political norms has outraged his critics, even while it has delighted his supporters. In a sign of just how tumultuous 2017 has been, some stormy episodes that would have been enormous stories under other presidents do not even crack the Top 10 list below. We found no space on the list for a Trump speech to the Boy Scouts in July that drew widespread criticism for its overtly political nature; nor for his suggestion that TV anchor Mika Brzezinski was bleeding from the face due to cosmetic surgery; nor for his jab at Sen. MORE (D-Mass.) as “Pocahontas” during an event honoring Native American veterans. Here are the ten biggest Trump controversies of the year. The decision to fire FBI director James Comey was the biggest self-inflicted wound of Trump’s first year. It led directly to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller by Deputy Attorney General MORE — and to a world of pain for the president. Top aides have been indicted, the Russia probe has hung over his first year in the White House and the president himself faces questions about whether he obstructed justice. Comey delivered dramatic testimony to Congress after the firing. His words were carried live nationwide by at least a dozen TV networks. The widespread suspicion — though Comey did not explicitly say this — is that the FBI director was fired because he refused to back off an invest... Link to the full article to read more