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Here's the letter Trump sent to Comey informing him that he was fired

By Jeremy Berke
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Former FBI Director James Comey was fired by Trump.  Gary Cameron/Reuters

President Donald Trump delivered the news that he was firing FBI director James Comey in a Tuesday afternoon letter. 

"While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occassions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau," Trump wrote.

"I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors," Trump added. 

Trump attached letters from Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, recommending Comey's dismissal.

Comey was charged with handling the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server, as well as Russian involvement in the 2016 campaign. 

The FBI on Tuesday cleaned up Comey's incorrect testimony during a Senate Judiciary hearing last week hours before he was fired. 

Read the letters here:

 

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Jeremy Berke
Jeremy is the founder and editor-in-chief of Cultivated Media, a newsletter bringing readers inside the emerging cannabis industry. Beyond his reporting, Jeremy is studying for his MBA at Columbia Business School and holds a certificate in cannabis pharmacology from the University of Vermont where he studied as a cannabis media fellow. Jeremy was formerly a senior reporter at Insider where he focused on the cannabis industry. Jeremy has covered the bumpy rollout of Canada's cannabis legalization, the boom in cannabis companies going public (and the resulting fallout), multibillion-dollar mergers between cannabis companies and corporations from other industries, the ongoing health effects from vaporizers, the mislabeling of CBD products, and how the world's largest financial, legal, and political institutions are reacting to and planning for legalization. He has also gotten scoops and broken news on layoffs affecting cannabis companies, startups raising money, banks and law firms building specialized cannabis practices, tracked which companies and individuals are profiting from cannabis, and profiled some of the top executives, investors, and leaders in the industry.He is a sought-after expert on cannabis business and policy, frequently speaking to the media and at industry conferences.
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