{"id":4621,"date":"2017-05-20T13:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2017-05-20T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:43:32","slug":"trump-russia-comey-to-give-open-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/trump-russia-comey-to-give-open-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Russia: Comey to give open testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"description\" readability=\"112\">\n<div class=\"line textcontent_img watermark\" readability=\"46\">\n<p>James Comey, the former FBI chief fired by President Donald Trump, has agreed to publicly testify about Russian interference in the US elections, as fresh allegations increased pressure on the American leader.<\/p>\n<p>In an Oval Office meeting with senior Russian officials last week, Trump called Comey a \u201cnut job\u201d and said firing the intelligence chief had relieved \u201cgreat pressure\u201d on him, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p><!-- between content ad --><\/p>\n<p>The exchange supports claims that Trump sacked Comey over the bureau\u2019s probe into possible collusion between the <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">real estate<\/a> mogul\u2019s campaign and Moscow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post meanwhile said the FBI has identified an unnamed senior White House official as a \u201csignificant person of interest\u201d in its sprawling probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_795264\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-300x197.png?resize=300%2C197\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-795264\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-300x197.png 300w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-58x38.png 58w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-260x170.png 260w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-198x130.png 198w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-115x77.png 115w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey.png 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-795264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-300x197.png?resize=300%2C197\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-300x197.png 300w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-58x38.png 58w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-260x170.png 260w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-198x130.png 198w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-115x77.png 115w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey.png 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Comey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The reports came just as Trump flew to Saudi Arabia to kick off his first foreign trip as US leader \u2014 highlighting how the controversy over his team\u2019s alleged links to Moscow is dogging his fledgling presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Comey will testify in open session of the Senate Intelligence Committee at some point after the Memorial Day holiday, May 29, though a date has not yet been set.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-FBI chief has not spoken publicly since his surprise firing last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hopeful that he will clarify for the American people recent events that have been broadly reported in the media,\u201d panel Chairman Richard Burr said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, said he expects Comey to \u201cshed light on issues critical to this Committee\u2019s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Comey declined their invitation to testify before the panel over the circumstances surrounding his abrupt removal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re extremely disappointed in James Comey\u2019s decision not to testify voluntarily before the Judiciary Committee,\u201d said Chairman Chuck Grassley and the panel\u2019s top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, urging Comey to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no reason he can\u2019t testify before both the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees\u2026 Given his commitment to the people and the mission of the FBI, we expected him to be responsive to the senators responsible for vetting its next proposed leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has been thrown into turmoil by a succession of stunning allegations against the president this week, including that he may have obstructed justice by asking Comey to drop an investigation into one of his top advisors.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Moscow ties under microscope \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The latest report from the Post, citing unnamed sources familiar with the investigation, undercuts Trump\u2019s insistence that his campaign had nothing to do with the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s national security advisor Michael Flynn was forced to resign for misleading Vice President Mike Pence about a phone call with the Russian ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner is among those whose contacts with the Russian government have come under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,\u201d Trump told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week, according to the Times, citing notes taken at the meeting and read to the paper by a US official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI faced great pressure because of Russia. That\u2019s taken off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That flies in the face of the White House\u2019s public insistence that Comey\u2019s dismissal was not linked to his ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Sean Spicer did not dispute the Times\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a hre=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2017\/05\/trump-russia-comey-give-open-testimony\/\"> Vanguard <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] James Comey, the former FBI chief fired by President Donald Trump, has agreed to publicly &hellip; <a title=\"Trump-Russia: Comey to give open testimony\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/trump-russia-comey-to-give-open-testimony\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump-Russia: Comey to give open testimony<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[518,525,1375,84,842],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-judiciary","tag-real-estate","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Comey-300x197.png?fit=300%2C197&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}