FBI Leaders, Including Comey, Were ‘Fired Up’ About Trump–Alfa Bank Claims: Agent
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 4:58 pm
WASHINGTON—Then-FBI Director James Comey and other bureau leaders were “fired up” in 2016 about allegations that Donald Trump’s business was secretly communicating with a Russian bank, according to internal FBI messages revealed in court on May 23. “People on the 7th floor to include director are fired up about this server,” Joseph Pientka, an agent based in Washington, told Curtis Heide, a colleague working from the bureau’s Chicago office, in a message dated Sept. 21, 2016. “Reachout [sic] and put tools on,” Heide added. “Its [sic] not an option—we must do it.” The message was sent just days after Michael Sussmann, a lawyer representing the campaign of Hillary Clinton—Trump’s rival for the presidency—met with an FBI lawyer and passed along information that he alleged showed a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank....
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