Trump was about to find out what it meant to fire the FBI director who was investigating him. At 12:30 p.m. on May 16, Rod Rosenstein and a couple of his aides met with Andrew McCabe, the Comey deputy now serving as acting FBI director, who dropped a bombshell: he had just authorized his agents to expand the investigation of Trump’s campaign to look at whether Trump himself had colluded with Russia or obstructed justice, and he planned to tell congressional leaders the next day. Rosenstein was reeling. The president was under investigation? With Jeff Sessions’s recusal, Rosenstein was in
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