Jeff Sessions, who lied to Congress about Russian meetings, recommended Trump fire Comey

Two important reminders on Trump's sudden firing of FBI Director James Comey: First, Comey was scheduled to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee about just two days from now. That hearing wasn't intended to be specifically about Russian hacking, but as part of an annual assessment of "current and projected national security threats to the United States" it was all but certain to have come up.

Second, the person who recommended Comey be fired was himself shepherded into the attorney general's office despite demonstrably lying to Congress about his own contacts with Russian officials....
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