Republicans on Wednesday found several reasons to rally around the prepared testimony of former FBI chief James Comey, including that Comey made it clear that he was not targeting President Trump as part of his investigation into Russia.

Comey’s explosive seven pages of remarks, which he’ll formally deliver to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, made it clear that Trump encouraged Comey to drop his investigation into former national security adviser Mike Flynn, and that he wanted Comey to say in public that Trump was not being investigated.