One of James Comey's biggest problems was that he didn't understand Donald Trump, says one of the President's colleagues.
"James Comey made the mistake of thinking that just because he announced the FBI was investigating possible collusion between the Russian Government and the Trump campaign, he had unfettered job security,"
said Sam Nunberg, a former political adviser to Trump.
"In my opinion, the President should have fired Comey the day he was sworn in."
George Lombardi, a friend of the President and a frequent guest at his Mar-a-Lago Club, said: "This was a long time coming. There had been a lot of arguments back and forth in the White House and during the campaign, a lot of talk about what side of the fence [Comey] was on or if he was above political dirty tricks."
Dating to the campaign, several men personally close to Trump deeply distrusted Comey and helped feed the candidate-turned-President's suspicions of the FBI director, who declined to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton for what they all agreed was a criminal offence, according to several people familiar with the dynamic.
