Trump: I was going to fire Comey even without recommendation

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he would have fired FBI Director James Comey even without the recommendation from his top political appointees at the Justice Department, contradicting earlier White House accounts.
He insisted anew that Comey had told him directly three separate times that he personally was not under investigation.
“I was going to fire Comey,” Trump said in an interview with NBC. The White House and Vice President Mike Pence have said the