Trump says Comey lied in testimony
President Donald Trump lashed out at former FBI Director James Comey over testimony he gave to the House Judiciary and Oversight committees on Friday, accusing the former FBI chief, without evidence, of lying to lawmakers and questioning his inability to recall events related to certain questions.
“On 245 occasions, former FBI Director James Comey told House investigators he didn’t know, didn’t recall, or couldn’t remember things when asked. Opened investigations on 4 Americans (not 2) — didn’t know who signed off and didn’t know Christopher Steele. All lies,” Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday morning.
Mr. Trump claimed in a second tweet that the former FBI chief “must have set a record for who lied the most to Congress in one day.”
“This whole deal is a Rigged Fraud headed up by dishonest people who would do anything so that I could not become President. They are now exposed!” Mr. Trump wrote.
Mr. Comey’s testimony came during a six-hour meeting with Republicans and Democrats on the committees in which he answered questions about the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, the Russia counterintelligence investigation he launched before he was fired from the FBI and the potential dismissal of special counsel Robert Mueller by Mr. Trump.
Booker mulls bid
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey says he will be deciding about running for president over the holidays. But as he blitzed through New Hampshire on Saturday in a whirlwind of selfies and soaring rhetoric about Americans finding “common purpose,” the 49-year-old Democrat sounded less like a candidate in a tentative early audition than one finishing off a dress rehearsal.
New Hampshire Democrats said Mr. Booker has been among the most active in courting them ahead of 2020.
FBI agent wounded
An FBI agent wounded by gunfire on Saturday in Brooklyn was shot while sitting in a parked vehicle, a law enforcement official told CNN.
According to the official, another vehicle pulled up next to the agent’s vehicle and fired into it Saturday around 3:20 p.m. The agent returned fire and was struck in the shoulder. The official said the agent, who was not identified, is in stable condition and is being treated for a shoulder injury at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.
VA leader under fire
More details emerged about Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie’s past commemoration of Confederate leaders with his remarks in a 1995 speech praising the president of the Confederacy as a “martyr to the ‘Lost Cause.’”
Mr. Wilkie called Jefferson Davis an “exceptional man in an exceptional age,” and while the VA leader called slavery and its aftermath “a stain on our story as it is a stain on every civilization in history,” he defended Confederate history and the soldiers who fought for the South.
Mr. Wilkie’s remarks at the annual Davis birthday celebration held at the U.S. Capitol by the United Daughters of the Confederacy were reported by CNN, which discovered a transcript in the United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine.