The White House did not provide a comment Friday. A fourth former official, who did not recall the president’s remarks to the Russian officials, said that memos were restricted only to people who needed to know their contents. The previous day, Trump had fired Comey amid the FBI’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign had coordinated with Russia. White House aides worried about the political ramifications if Trump’s comments to the Russian officials became public. According to the fourth former official, Trump lamented to Lavrov “all this Russia stuff” was detrimental to good relations.

Source: thestar September 28, 2019 00:33 UTC