Trump had misjudged the reaction to Comey’s removal. Critics compared it to Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre,” when his firing of Independent Counsel Archibald Cox resulted in the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Comey’s deputy, Andrew McCabe, now the acting director of the FBI, was so alarmed by Trump’s behavior that he formally opened a counterintelligence inquiry into whether the president himself had been working on behalf of Russia. He also expanded the investigation to include whether Trump had obstructed justice.
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