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Trump confirms he’s under investigation

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump confirmed Friday he was under investigation and appeared to take aim at a senior Justice Department official, in a tweet that seemed to encapsulate his frustration with the ongoing focus on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election. “I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt,” the president wrote in his tweet. In another tweet earlier Friday, Trump writes, “After 7 months of investigations & committee hearings about my ‘collusion with the Russians,’ nobody has been able to show any proof. Sad!” The Trump tweets come after the top lawyer for his transition team warned organization officials to preserve all records and other materials related to the Russia probe. An official of Trump’s transition confirmed the laywer’s internal order sent Thursday. The…

Pres.Trump lawyer demands investigation after Comey confession on leaking..

Trump appears to be hitting the FBI hornets’ nest with a stick. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, John Iadarola, and Alonzo Bodden, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. http://www.tytnetwork.com/join “Donald Trump warned ousted FBI Director James Comey on Friday not to talk to the media, a highly unusual move that prompted fresh charges the president is trying to silence the man who led an investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s election campaign and Russia. On Twitter, Trump appeared to suggest that if Comey gave his version of contacts between them, the administration might produce tapes of conversations, although it was not clear if such tapes exist. The veiled threat added to the storm over Trump’s abrupt firing of Comey on Tuesday. Critics have assailed Trump for dismissing the FBI chief…

Pres. Trump says “We are under siege” evil morons are controlling the messaging, Censorship

**President Donald Trump says he and his supporters “are under siege” but “will come out bigger and better and stronger than ever.** While former FBI Director, James Comey, was attracting media attention with his testimony before a senate hearing, President Donald Trump was telling a group of evangelicals that “we’re under siege” but will emerge “bigger and better and stronger than ever.” Trump made no reference to Comey in his remarks to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual gathering. But hours before the president arrived to make his first public comments of the day, Comey told the Senate intelligence committee that Trump tried to get him to pledge loyalty and drop an investigation into potential collusion between Russia and Trump’s campaign. Trump abruptly fired Comey on May 9. A private attorney for Trump said the president never asked Comey to…