By Andrew Goudsward

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former FBI Director James Comey was criminally charged on Thursday with false statements and obstruction over congressional testimony he gave in September 2020 about the investigation into contacts between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government.

When Comey appeared for that hearing, beamed in remotely from Virginia because of COVID-era restrictions, it had been more than three years since Trump fired him as FBI director and more than a year since the end of the Russia investigation that led to the unraveling of his relationship with Trump.

Republican lawmakers, who had long claimed the probe was designed to undermine Trump’s first term, wanted to question Comey weeks ahead of the 2020 election, which pitted Trump again

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