President Donald Trump called James Comey a "dirty cop" one day after the former FBI director was indicted on two federal charges related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The indictment alleges Comey lied when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020 that he had not “authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports." The DOJ contends Comey had authorized a person to serve as an anonymous source regarding an FBI investigation.

"So he gave an answer," President Trump said on Friday. "The only problem is, for him, he didn't think he'd be caught, and he got caught."

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The president has long decried the Russia

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