CNN EXCLUSIVE: Fearing Trump interference, FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs

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(CNN) - Adapted from "TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: The Investigation of Donald Trump," by Jeffrey Toobin. Copyright © 2020. Available from Doubleday.

In the hours after President Donald Trump suddenly fired FBI Director James Comey, on May 9, 2017, his former subordinates in the J. Edgar Hoover Building wondered if there would be more shoes to drop.

Would Trump dismiss more people? Would he shut down the investigation of his campaign's ties to Russia? Would the President demand that the Bureau cease its investigation of Michael Flynn, Trump's onetime national security adviser?

In response to these concerns, the FBI took extraordinary -- and previously undisclosed -- steps to protect its investigations.

From Comey's first meetings with Trump, shortly after he won the presidency, the FBI director developed misgivings about his new boss' behavior -- about Trump's demands for "loyalty," and even more unnerving, his request that the Bureau drop its investigation of Flynn. Comey's conversations with Trump had been so distressing that the director started writing up contemporaneous summaries of their interactions and sharing them with a handful of top officials at the Bureau. Now, suddenly, Comey was out -- and the question arose of what to do with his memos about his conversations with the President.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/politics/jeffrey-toobin-trump-fbi-mueller-true-crimes-and-misdemeanors/index.html

[Nevilledog]

1. Many of us hoped they would make copies.

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R

[jayfish]

3. Cool Story.

Meant nothing.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Smart. One day these will all come out, w/o fear of being tampered with, w/o fear of ...

being destroyed or 'lost' or whatever. Justice will be done, and all who made a mockery of justice etc. will pay the price. All of those who attempted to hide the evidence, to destroy the evidence, etc. will pay a price, as they should.

[Skittles]

5. what I remember is

the FBI let the public know bullshit about Hilary's emails while never mentioning that Trump was under investigation for his RUSSIA TIES

[Cha]

6. Good ON the FBI!!

[Baked Potato]

8. There was a small window there for Republicans to act patriotic and lawful

and stop the crime family. Then, all together, they said “fuck all you Americans” and the rule of law. Republicans showed they can not be trusted. That should mean something still.

[lpbk2713]

9. In six months the market will be flooded with "Now it can be told" books.

And I can't wait.