Trump White House rocked by multiple bombshells as he leaves on long trip
WASHINGTON — The president’s plane had barely taken off for his first foreign trip when multiple political storms slammed into it Friday: One report in the New York Times, one in the Washington Post, another on CNN, and a press release from James Comey pointed at severe turbulence ahead for Donald Trump.
Things have become bad enough that White House lawyers have begun researching impeachment procedures, CNN reported. It was an apparent effort to prepare for the still-distant possibility they will need to defend the president from a move to oust him.
Air Force One had just left for a nine-day trip when trouble struck.
It started at 3 p.m. when the Times published its latest scoop: the president told Russians in an Oval Office meeting that the former FBI director, Comey, was a “nut job”; that he’d felt pressure over the Russia affair; and firing Comey eased that pressure.