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‘IT’S A COUP’: FORMER TRUMP LAWYER RESPONDS TO REPORT OF FBI COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROBE

https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/14/john-dowd-coup-donald-trump/?utm_medium=email

One of President Donald Trump’s former lawyers for the Russia probe is accusing former FBI officials of staging a “coup” by opening a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump acted as a foreign agent of Russia.

“This is our worst nightmare that someone with that kind of power would then decide to go after the president. I mean it’s a coup,” John Dowd told Fox’s Brian Kilmeade in a radio interview Monday.

“That’s what it is an attempted coup by Comey and his crowd,” he said. “And the evidence is all over there. I take The New York Times article as an admission of their bad behavior.”

Dowd, who represented Trump from June 2017 until his resignation on March 22, 2018, was responding to a Times report from Friday that the FBI opened the investigation into Trump in the eight-day window in May 2017 between the firing of James Comey as FBI director and the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel.

FBI officials were concerned that Trump could be a witting or unwitting agent of the Russian government, according to The Times. Mueller inherited the investigation as well as a separate inquiry into whether Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey.

Comey’s firing and Trump’s remarks shortly after were the catalyst for the counterintelligence investigation, The Times reported.

Trump responded to the report Monday.

“I never worked for Russia,” Trump told reporters outside the White House, adding that he believed Comey to be “a bad cop, a dirty cop, and a liar.”

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