Top advisers to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and transition team urged him to fire former FBI Director James Comey, but Trump himself wanted to give Comey a chance despite his own reservations about the top cop, a new book claims. “His instincts were that Comey was no good,” John Dowd, Trump's former attorney, said, according to York. “And he hung that initially on the way Comey handled Hillary Clinton.”FBI DOCUMENTS REVEAL NEW DETAILS AROUND JAMES COMEY FIRINGFormer New Jersey Gov. Sessions, who would serve as Trump's attorney general, wanted Trump to fire Comey immediately after Inauguration Day. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPBut "most important, Trump himself wanted to make the relationship with Comey work," York writes.

Source: Fox News September 08, 2020 23:03 UTC