FBI/JAMES COMEY/JARED KUSHNER/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A top aide to President Donald Trump found out FBI Director James Comey would be fired when a letter terminating him was sent to the wrong printer, according to a new book, ‘Kushner, Inc.’ The book by Vicky Ward, which CNN has reviewed, paints a chaotic account of the days leading up to and following the removal of the FBI director in May 2017 — a move that led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. Ward attributed much of the information in her book to interviews with anonymous sources. A section on Comey’s firing opened with an anecdote saying a letter from Trump firing Comey went to then-White House top economic adviser Gary Cohn’s printer. Cohn, in turn, had his aide take the document to then-White House counsel Don McGahn, who said, ‘Oh f***’ when he got the letter and realized it had not been sent to the right place…The book said Trump went on to fire Comey days later — Trump’s body man Keith Schiller hand-delivered the letter to the FBI director — and Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive, huddled with Dina Powell, a White House aide who also worked at the investment bank. Powell predicted the fallout from the Comey firing would be bad for the White House, and the pair pressed Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner about it. Powell also did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment on this story.”
–Eli Watkins, “Book: Trump letter firing Comey accidentally went to economic aide, not top lawyer,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 14, 2019 8:58 pm