FBI Director Comey first saw he had been fired on TV. [TYPICAL!]

When FBI Director James Comey first learned that he was fired on Tuesday afternoon, he thought it was a ‘fairly funny prank.’

Comey was speaking to a group of FBI employees in Los Angeles when he saw the news that he had been terminated being played on a TV in the background, according to the New York Times.

He reportedly even laughed at the news before staff asked him to step into another room.

Before leaving, though, Comey shook hands with some of the FBI employees he had been talking with. His staff then confirmed that he had, indeed, been fired.

A letter from Donald Trump was delivered to the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC around the same time.

‘While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau,’ Trump wrote.

‘It is essential that we find new leadership for the F.B.I. that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission.’

FBI sources told ABC News that Comey was finally read his termination letter over the phone.

Comey’s firing was effective immediately, and deputy director Andrew McCabe was quickly made the acting head of the FBI. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions reportedly recommended that Trump fire Comey.

The news of Comey’s termination has sent shock waves through the nation’s capital.

Comey has been heading an investigation into the connections between Trump’s advisers and the Russian government before the 2016 presidential election. He was also responsible for handling the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server last fall – a lengthy process that Trump once called ‘gutsy.’

In July, Comey stated that the bureau ‘did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information,’ but that they had been ‘extremely careless.’

Rosenstein wrote in a letter released by the White House that he did not appreciate the findings that Comey had come to.

‘I cannot defend the director’s handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clinton’s emails, and I do not understand his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken.’

Comey’s motorcade was later seen on a Los Angeles freeway after the firing as it made its way through slow-moving traffic in a bizarre O.J. Simpson-like scene.

Source: FBI Director Comey first saw he had been fired on TV | Daily Mail Online