"Nice", Trump tweeted early Thursday morning.
Trump had received private assurances from former FBI Director James B. Comey starting in January that he was not personally under investigation.
President Donald Trump is taking to Twitter denounce reports that the Russian Federation investigation is widening to examine whether he tried to obstruct justice.
He said he recused himself from the Justice Department's Russian Federation investigation only because of a regulation to require the step because of his involvement in the Trump campaign.
Mr Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee on 8 June he believed Mr Trump had directed him in February to drop an FBI probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn that was part of the broader Russian Federation investigation. Despite voters in the Politico poll indicating by a two-to-one margin that Comey's statements have hurt the president, Trump has maintained that he feels vindicated by the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director's testimony.
The story was published Wednesday, just in time for the president's 71st birthday.
But Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller last month, testified Tuesday he has seen no evidence of good cause to fire Mueller.
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Terrified residents scrambled to escape the fire, with one desperate parent even throwing her baby out of the window. Prime Minister Theresa May promised an investigation and visited the site on Thursday.
"It's my judgment that I was sacked because of the Russian Federation investigation", Comey said. Further, it is possible that the sources talking with the Post don't know all the facts. The President has stressed he was not under investigation, and has taken to Twitter to dismiss the entire investigation as a hoax.
He also said he believed Comey's testimony last week before the Intelligence Committee to be "very clear" and Comey himself to be a "very credible witness", when it came to questions about Comey's statement that he'd asked Sessions not to leave him alone with Trump.
A spokesman for Trump's personal lawyer responded to the report but didn't deny it. He also noted that the Trump administration noted Comey's handling of the email probe in its initial explanation for Comey's firing.
Coats met behind closed doors for more than three hours Thursday with the Senate intelligence committee, which is conducting a separate investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey's handling of it, said officials familiar with the account Coats gave to associates.
Comey told Congress last week that he leaked his memos of his conversations Trump to a friend after a tweet by the president suggested he may have taped the conversations.
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