Comey’s testimony infuriated Trump. The FBI director had given an enormous boost to Democratic claims that Trump may have conspired with Putin to win the election. No such allegation—conspiring with a foreign adversary—had ever been made against an American president. And now, by refuting Trump’s claim that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, Comey was publicly calling the president a liar. Over the next several weeks, Trump would pressure the leaders of the FBI, the Justice Department, and the intelligence community to help curtail the investigation. They resisted him.
