The abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey has cast further suspicion over the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. Comey is the second FBI director to ever be removed from the position.
According to a letter written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, addressed to the attorney general, the probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server was “the nation’s most sensitive criminal investigation” and he “cannot defend the Director’s handling of the conclusion of the investigation.”
President Trump and his team have long said Comey did not come down hard enough on Clinton, while Democrats previously slammed the director for his timing of releasing information about Clinton.
