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What Comey Left Out About Probe Should Trouble Trump

What the former FBI director left out of his sworn testimony could spell trouble for the likes of Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions—and Trump himself.
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate intelligence committee hearing on Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Capitol Hill, on June 8.
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In the new abnormal that defines the Donald Trump era, FBI officials sit around debating whether they should tell the president of the United States whether he’s part of an investigation into Russian subversion.

Think about that. The story arc of the June 8 hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee may have been as simple to understand as the courtroom climax of any Law and Order episode: Who are you going to believe, the witness or the defendant? And make no mistake: Donald Trump was the off-stage defendant on Capitol Hill, while star witness James Comey all but pronounced the president a suspected accomplice of Moscow.

In the former FBI director’s telling, watched by nearly , top bureau officials debated what to tell Trump about the

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