Mar 13, 2019

Exclusive: Excerpt from "Kushner Inc" details Comey firing

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St. Martin's Press

Here's a sneak peek for Axios readers at "Kushner, Inc.," by investigative reporter Vicky Ward, out next Tuesday from St. Martin's Press:

[I]n early May [2017], an aide to Gary Cohn, who had an office on the second floor of the West Wing, noticed a document on his printer. It appeared to be a letter from Trump, firing Comey. It also appeared to have been sent to the wrong printer. ...
Trump was livid about the attention the FBI investigation was attracting, but to fire the head of the FBI while it was investigating him was an extraordinarily risky move. ...
Cohn told his aide to take the letter straight to [then-White House counsel] Donald McGahn, who also had an office on the second floor of the White House (and whose printer it had clearly been meant for). Upon receiving it and realizing it had been printed in the wrong place, McGahn said, “Oh, f!@#!”

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