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Trump may back out of FBI visit amid outrage over 'disgraceful' Comey firing
Source: The Guardian
Trump may back out of FBI visit amid outrage over 'disgraceful' Comey firing
Lois Beckett
Friday 12 May 2017 14.58 BST
Donald Trump has reportedly backed away from a planned visit to FBI headquarters in Washington, amid continued anger from current and former agents over the president’s abrupt firing of director James Comey.
“What are you going to say? ‘I love you FBI’? And kiss babies and pose for pictures?” said Ron Hosko, a former FBI assistant director and currently the president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, which provides support to officers who face criminal charges.
“I think he just slapped the FBI in the face. It was disgraceful, outrageous, disgusting. These [FBI agents] are people who have education, who have experience. They know what bullshit looks and feels like.”
On Thursday, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders indicated that Trump would visit FBI headquarters “in the next few days”. Later in the day, White House officials told media sources he would not.
Instead of visiting the FBI to say more “hollow” words, Hosko said, the president should publicly ask the FBI what resources it needs to complete its investigation of possible links between Trump aides and Russia – and then rapidly deliver them.
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Lois Beckett
Friday 12 May 2017 14.58 BST
Donald Trump has reportedly backed away from a planned visit to FBI headquarters in Washington, amid continued anger from current and former agents over the president’s abrupt firing of director James Comey.
“What are you going to say? ‘I love you FBI’? And kiss babies and pose for pictures?” said Ron Hosko, a former FBI assistant director and currently the president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, which provides support to officers who face criminal charges.
“I think he just slapped the FBI in the face. It was disgraceful, outrageous, disgusting. These [FBI agents] are people who have education, who have experience. They know what bullshit looks and feels like.”
On Thursday, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders indicated that Trump would visit FBI headquarters “in the next few days”. Later in the day, White House officials told media sources he would not.
Instead of visiting the FBI to say more “hollow” words, Hosko said, the president should publicly ask the FBI what resources it needs to complete its investigation of possible links between Trump aides and Russia – and then rapidly deliver them.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/12/trump-fbi-visit-cancelled-james-comey-firing
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