AdvertisementThe president exercised his constitutional authority to fire an FBI director, and the FBI responded by opening a counterintelligence investigation into him. The key document is a declassified FBI "Opening Electronic Communication," dated May 16, 2017, exactly one week after Trump fired Comey on May 9. BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: This morning, the White House Government Transparency Task Force released newly declassified documents exposing an FBI criminal investigation code-named Oxferd Comma. The document claims Trump "sought Comey's personal loyalty" and "asked Comey to publicize the fact that the President was not the subject of an FBI investigation." The memos show that both Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein were advised that the probe had been launched.