Former FBI director James Comey will testify before Congress in private this week after reaching a deal with Republicans and dropping his challenge to a House subpoena.
His lawyer, David Kelly, confirmed to The Hill that Comey had reached an agreement to testify on Friday.
Comey tweeted earlier Sunday that he had reached a deal with Republican lawmakers regarding his testimony, which he wanted to give in a public hearing.
Donald McGahn, then the White House counsel, rejected the president’s request, according to two people familiar with the conversation in the spring.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told the White House counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute two of his political adversaries: his 2016 challenger, Hillary Clinton, and former FBI Director James Comey, according to two people familiar with the conversation.
The lawyer, Donald McGahn, rebuffed the president, saying that he had no authority to order a prosecution. McGahn said that while he could request an investigation, that too could prompt accusations of abuse of power. To underscore his point, McGahn had White House lawyers write a memo for Trump warning that if he asked law enforcement to investigate his rivals, he could face a range of consequences, including possible impeachment.
The encounter was one of the most blatant examples yet of how Trump views the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies. It took on additional significance in recent weeks when McGahn left the White House and Trump appointed a relatively inexperienced political loyalist, Matthew Whitaker, as the acting attorney general.
The following article by Olivia Beavers was posted on the Hill website July 30, 2018:
House Republicans are planning to seek an interview with former FBI Director James Comey in September to discuss his decisionmaking during the 2016 election, The Hill has learned.
GOP members of the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees are expected to request Comey’s testimony after lawmakers return from their four-week August recess, according to three lawmakers familiar with the matter.
The Judiciary and Oversight committees, which are leading a joint investigation into the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of State, are eager to press the former FBI chief on a series of decisions he made during the 2016 campaign and after President Trump fired him in May 2017.
If you haven’t had a chance yet, here’s a link to the memos former FBI head James Comey wrote following meetings with Donald Trump, here’s a link to view them:
The following article by John Wagner was posted on the Washington Post website April 17, 2018:
President Trump’s rage at the Russia investigation often manifests in insult-laden attacks, especially aimed at former FBI director James B. Comey. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
Former FBI director James B. Comey is pushing back against President Trump’s suggestion that he should be jailed, saying in a new interview that Trump’s pronouncements on Twitter pose a “great danger.”
The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website April 17. 2018:
The president claims that Comey lied to Sen. Charles Grassley, but the claim is undercut by a new Inspector General report.
Comey “lied in Congress to Senator G” — President Trump, in a tweet, April 16, 2018
In his continuing attacks on former FBI director James B. Comey — whom Trump fired in May 2017 — the president has a long list of complaints. We have previously examined his claim that Comey illegally leaked classified information, finding it wanting. Now let’s turn to his complaint that Comey lied to “Senator G” — Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).
The following article by Ryan Koronowski was posted on the ThinkProgress website April 16, 2018:
Kompromat, Papadopoulos, and golden showers all came up during the five-hour interview.
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It’s possible that Russian officials have collateral on President Donald Trump, former FBI Director James Comey said during an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.
On Sunday night, ABC News aired a one-hour special featuring segments from a much longer interview with the former intelligence official, along with other vignettes and backstory setting the stage for Comey’s blockbuster book which is set to be released on Tuesday. The network also published a transcript of the full five-hour interview.
The following article by Caroline Orr was posted on the ShareBlue.com website April 15, 2018:
Trump fired off tweets every 10-15 minutes for an hour and a half this morning.
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Apparently angry that bombing Syria didn’t make the country forget about his scandals, Trump woke up Sunday morning and promptly took to Twitter to tweet out his rage.
Starting at 7:42 a.m., Trump fired off tweets every 10-15 minutes for nearly an hour and a half, lashing out at everyone from former FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller to Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the “Fake News” media, and the DNC.
The following article by Michael D. Shear and Peter Baker was posted on the New York Times website April 15, 2018:
James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, used his interview on the ABC News program “20/20” to amplify many of the disclosures in his tell-all memoir.Credit: Ralph Alswang/ABC News
WASHINGTON — If there was any chance that President Trump and James B. Comey could have avoided all-out war, it ended Sunday night.
That was when ABC News aired an interview with Mr. Comey, the president’s fired F.B.I. director, as he uses a publicity blitz for his searing tell-all memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” to raise the alarm about the dangers he says Mr. Trump poses to the country.
While ABC aired one hour of its conversation with Mr. Comey, it had conducted a five-hour interview with him, a transcript of which was obtained by The New York Times. In it, Mr. Comey called Mr. Trump a serial liar who treated women like “meat,” and described him as a “stain” on everyone who worked for him. Continue reading “Comey, in Interview, Calls Trump ‘Morally Unfit’ and ‘Stain’ on All Around Him”
The following article by Henry C. Jackson was posted on the Politico website April 13, 2018:
The James Comey media tour hadn’t even started, really, before President Donald Trump responded with anger and indignation.
Then the revelations started to leak out.
“He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst ‘botch jobs’ of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!” Trump wrote in one of a series of tweets. Continue reading “Trump After Dark: ‘Untruthful slime ball’ edition”
House Republicans are planning to seek an interview with former FBI Director 
