The president’s draft was scrapped by White House legal counsel.
In the days before President Donald Trump fired James Comey as FBI director — one of the most defining moments of his presidency — Trump penned a scathing letter to Comey that has never been publicly released.
In fact, the four-page letter was never even sent to Comey because White House lawyers quickly determined it should never see the “light of day,” Special Counsel Robert Mueller later recounted.
Mueller reviewed the May 2017 letter as part of his wide-ranging investigation and mentioned parts of it in his final report, but the letter has remained largely hidden from the public nearly four years later. Continue reading.