Republican Senators Are Questioning Trump's Firing of James Comey

Trump said Wednesday that Comey was sacked because "very simply, he was not doing a good job".

US media reported that Comey asked the Justice Department for additional money to hire more people to staff the FBI's Russian Federation probe in the days before he was sacked.

Trump was also said to have been annoyed when Comey during a Senate panel said he was "mildly nauseous" about the possibility of him influencing the 2016 presidential election. "It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won".

When President Donald Trump accused outgoing President Barack Obama in March of "wiretapping" him, James B. Comey, then the Federal Bureau of Investigation director, was "flabbergasted", reports the New York Times in a breakdown of Comey's thuggish dismissal that includes jawdropping detail.

It is believed that the President felt he couldn't trust Comey, and his frustrations finally boiled over on Tuesday when the controversial dismissal took place.

But the president's actions might have muddied that objective, with Trump clearly favoring a particular path. Burr, the committee's top Republican, expressed concerns in the immediate aftermath of Comey's dismissal that it "further complicates an already hard investigation by the committee".

Republican chairperson Burr asked McCabe whether he ever heard Comey tell Trump that the president was not the subject of investigation.

He also pledged not to discuss the Russian Federation investigation with the White House.

Days before he was sacked, Comey requested more resources to pursue his investigation, US officials have said.

There now are 11 congressional staff working on the Senate probe, a number that some lawmakers have said publicly isn't enough to handle the voluminous intelligence reporting and leads that have been generated by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.

Other Republicans have expressed their concerns about the firing, but wouldn't go so far as to call for a special prosecutor on the case.

In his NBC interview, Trump said that had Russian Federation interfered in the 2016 election, it would have been "horrible".

Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said he was "disappointed" by the president's decision. Sen.

While the White House denied that Comey's testimony had anything to do with the firing, White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders on May 10 indicated that Trump viewed Comey as insubordinate, saying Comey had committed "atrocities in circumventing the chain of command". "We had a very nice dinner".

By firing Comey, Trump again has caused the public to wonder whether there is more here than meets the eye.

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe sits with a folder marked "Secret" in front of him while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington today before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on major threats facing the U.S.

Trump fired Comey on Tuesday, writing in his dismissal letter to the director: "I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation". The reaction was notable given that most Republicans have risen to the president's defense in the past, or at least avoided critical commentary, on issues from the immigration travel ban to Trump's false claims that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower.

McCabe, a career FBI agent who ran the Washington field office and oversaw national security investigations out of headquarters, was a target of Trump's on the campaign trail following reports that his wife had accepted campaign donations from a close ally of Hillary Clinton during a failed bid for the state Senate.

"It makes me mildly nauseous to think we might have had some impact on the election", Comey said. The nominee must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.