James Comey: My job security was on the menu at Trump dinner

Published April 13, 2018 11:41am ET



Former FBI director James Comey said he believes Trump invited him to dinner in January 2017 in order to demand his loyalty in return for Trump’s decision to keep him on the job once he became president.

“The setup of the dinner, both the physical layout of a private meal and Trump’s pretense that he had not already asked me to stay on multiple occasions, convinced me this was an effort to establish a patronage relationship,” according to a leaked part of Comey’s book, set to release Tuesday.

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