Fired FBI Director James Comey on Thursday said he “got the sense” in a January meeting with President Donald Trump that his job security would depend on whether he “demonstrated loyalty” to Trump.
“Looking back, did that dinner suggest that your job might be contingent on how you handle the investigation?” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) asked, referring to the FBI’s investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, which Comey said Trump asked him to quash.
“I got the sense my job would be contingent upon how he felt I conducted myself and whether I demonstrated loyalty,” Comey replied. “But I don’t know whether I’d go so far as to connect it to the investigation.”
