President Trump said former FBI Director James Comey was one of the “rotten apples” at the FBI, after Comey accused Trump of spreading lies about his former agency.

“The FBI is a fantastic institution, but some of the people at the top were rotten apples. James Comey was one of them,” Trump told Fox News in an interview that aired Thursday. “I’ve done a great service to this country by getting rid of him, by firing him.”

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