President Trump Accuses Comey of Lying Under Oath

President Donald Trump accused James B. Comey, the former FBI director, of lying under oath to Congress in testimony that the president dismissed as a politically motivated proceeding. President Trump also asserted that Comey’s comments, in which the former FBI director implied that the president fired him for pressing forward with the Russia investigation, had failed to prove any collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow nor any obstruction of justice.

“Yesterday showed no collusion, no obstruction,” President Trump said in the White House Rose Garden, during a news conference with the visiting Romanian president, Klaus Iohannis. “That was an excuse by the Democrats, who lost an election they shouldn’t have lost,” he said. “It was just an excuse, but we were very, very happy, and, frankly, James Comey confirmed a lot of what I said, and some of the things that he said just weren’t true.”