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Lavrov commented on reports on the discussion with Trump's “crazy” head of the FBI
At a meeting of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US President Donald Trump, the issue of James Komi’s resignation was not discussed with the post of head of the FBI. On May 20, Lavrov himself told about this, Interfax reports.
“We did not affect this topic at all,” he explained.
On May 19, the sources of The New York Times reported that Trump, at a meeting with Lavrov and Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak called Komi "crazy." The US President noted that after the dismissal of Komi, the “huge pressure”, which was on it due to the investigation related to Russia, has decreased significantly.
Trump unexpectedly fired the head of the FBI on May 10. Komi himself learned about the resignation from a letter in which the US president expressed the opinion that he cannot effectively lead the department. Prior to this, The New York Times wrote that before the dismissal of Komi, he asked for “resources” to investigate the alleged intervention of Russia in American elections.
Komi himself agreed to speak at the end of the month at open hearings in the US Senate. The Senate expects that the former head of the FBI will share information about the investigation of the case of the “interference” of the Russian Federation in the 2016 election.
The Russian authorities have repeatedly stated the unreasonableness of suspicions of the "interference" of Moscow in the elections in the United States. Speaking about the dismissal of Komi, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it "has nothing to do with Russia."