Trump Says He Planned To Fire 'Grandstander' Comey 'Regardless Of Recommendation'
The president told NBC that he fired James Comey as FBI director, would have done so based on a recommendation or not and said he was told three times by Comey that he wasn't under FBI investigation.
Updated at 2 p.m.
Undermining the prior rationale laid out by the White House, President Trump said he fired James Comey as FBI director without regard to the Justice Department's recommendation.
"Regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey," Trump told NBC's Lester Holt in his
