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The U.S President Donald Trump reacted to Friday’s House testimony of former FBI director James Comey in his tweets early Saturday morning. He blamed Comey of lying repeatedly. Comey gave a closed session interview during the current week to politicians as part of an investigation into the processes of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Documents released yesterday showed the FBI had opened counterintelligence files on 4 Americans. These documents pointed out that then-candidate Trump wasn’t one of them. Comey said, “We had some reason to suspect that there were Americans who might have assisted the Russians. Comey served as the FBI director between 2013 and 2017. He was fired by Trump in May 2018.

Comey was criticized by Rep. Jim Jordan for allegedly answering ‘I don’t know’ to numerous questions. Trump wrote on Saturday morning: “On 245 occasions, former FBI Director James Comey informed House investigators that he didn’t know, didn’t recall, or couldn’t remember things when asked. Opened investigations on 4 Americans, not 2, he didn’t know who signed off and didn’t know Christopher Steele. All lies”! He added, “Leakin’ James Comey must have set a record for lying the most to Congress in one day. His Friday testimony was so untruthful! This whole deal is a Rigged Fraud headed up by dishonest people who would do anything so that I could not become President. They are now exposed!”

Trump has made virtually specific claims regarding various aspects of his controversial presidency that have reflected badly on him. A former British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele penned a dossier of raw intelligence detailing Trump campaign officials’ links to Russia, did come up during Comey’s Friday interview. Comey said, “My understanding is that Christopher Steele is a former intelligence officer of an allied nation who prepared a series of reports in the summer of 2016 that has become known as the Steele dossier. Comey also denied the assertion by Trump that he is a Best Friend of Robert Mueller.