Trump calls ousted FBI boss Comey ‘a GRANDSTANDING SHOWBOAT’ and says he ‘was going to fire him regardless of Deputy AG’s recommendation’

Trump uses first TV interview since he fired James Comey to launch verbal assault on ousted FBI director
He calls him ‘a showboat’, says ‘he’s a grandstander’ and that the ‘FBI has been in turmoil’ as he sits down with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt
Trump says recommendation to fire Comey did not affect his decision: ‘I would have fired Comey anyway.’
Trump’s interview flatly contradicts which White House said since Tuesday afternoon about how it happened – and even Mike Pence’s version of events
President suggests that Comey begged to meet him for dinner and was angling to keep his job when they met for ‘very nice’ meal

Donald Trump dramatically broke his silence on his firing of James Comey on Thursday – to call the FBI director he fired ‘a showboat’.

He told NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt he had directly asked Comey three times if he was himself under investigation.

And he said that he would have fired Comey regardless of the written memo from deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein which called for him to go.

‘He’s a showboat”