The White House has denounced fired FBI chief James Comey’s suggestions that the US president and his administration had lied in a bid to invalidate an investigation into ties with Russia.
“I can definitely say the president is not a liar and frankly am insulted by that question,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said during a briefing at the White House on Thursday.
Comey appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee for the first time on Thursday since he was fired in the midst of an ongoing investigation into Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, before and after Trump’s inauguration.
“Although the law required no reason at all to fire the FBI director, the administration then chose to defame me and more importantly the FBI by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly run, that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader,” Comey testified.
“Those were lies, plain and simple,” he…