For former members of the FBI, James Comey's testimony delivered a shocker: That the president wanted to be alone with the former director of the FBI in the Oval Office and even asked his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to leave the room.
"Why did he kick everyone out of the Oval Office to talk to me?" Comey said to the committee of senators on Thursday. "As an investigator that is a very significant fact." Comey called Trump's request "inappropriate" in his prepared statement and said he asked Sessions to never leave him alone with the president again.
Former FBI officials with cybersecurity and counterintelligence experience agree—it's highly unusual, even unheard of, for a high-ranking official, the president included, to ask other officials involved in an investigation for some privacy. Coupled with other revelations, that could help prove Trump obstructed justice, which now rests with newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller.
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