NASHVILLE – Tennessee congressional delegates’ reactions to fired FBI Director James Comey’s Capitol Hill testimony on Thursday about Russia and President Donald Trump ranged from one Republican calling it a “flop” to a Democrat saying it was “alarming.”
During his sworn testimony, Comey said, “it’s my judgment that I was fired because of the Russia investigation” into that country’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Comey added he was “fired in some way to change, or the endeavor was to change, the way the Russia investigation was being conducted. That is a very big deal, and not just because it involves me.”
U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., declared in a statement he was unimpressed, saying the “hearing made clear that Donald Trump has never been under investigation, nor did the President interfere with one.
“The Comey Show is a flop, and Democrats are going to need a new excuse for Hillary Clinton’s election loss,” the South Pittsburg congressman said. “They should start with Hillary Clinton.”