The letter was reportedly sent to an aide of Trump's former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn. Cohn told the aide to take it immediately to then-White House counsel Don McGahn.
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , during an Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, D.C.President Donald Trump's letter firing former FBI Director James Comey was accidentally sent to the wrong printer back in May 2017, according to an excerpt from a new book,"Kushner Inc.
The letter was accidentally sent to an aide to Gary Cohn, Trump's ex-chief economic adviser, according to an excerpt of, states that Cohn's aide, who apparently had an office on the second floor of the West Wing, noticed a document on his printer sometime in early May 2017.
It goes on to say that Cohn told the aide to immediately take the letter to McGahn,"who also had an office on the second floor of the White House ." and advised Trump against sending. McGahn was ultimately successful in preventing Trump from sending the more problematic draft of the letter.alongside White House adviser Stephen Miller, and it included references to private meetings between the president and Comey in which the FBI's investigation into Russia was discussed. A copy of the letter was obtained by special counsel Robert Mueller, who's leading the Justice Department's investigation into Russian election interference.
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