Trump urges Microsoft to fire lawyer who ran investigation into attempt to overturn 2020 US election – as it happened

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Well, the president is awake.

Donald Trump has posted the following on his Truth Social social media network:

JAMES COMEY IS A DIRTY COP. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Whether you like Corrupt James Comey or not, and I can't imagine too many people liking him, HE LIED! It is not a complex lie, it's a very simple, but IMPORTANT one. There is no way he can explain his way out of it. He is a Dirty Cop, and always has been, but he was just assigned a Crooked Joe Biden appointed Judge, so he's off to a very good start. Nevertheless, words are words, and he wasn't hedging or in dispute. He was very positive, there was no doubt in his mind about what he said, or meant by saying it. He left himself ZERO margin of error on a big and important answer to a question. He just got unexpectedly caught. James Dirty Cop" Comey was a destroyer of lives. He knew exactly what he was saying, and that it was a very serious and far reaching lie for which a very big price must be paid! President DJT