alone with the President again, an account verified by Sessions, FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki, and Jody
Hunt, who was then the Attorney General’s chief of staff.
following Comey’s testimony, the President met with McGahn, Sessions, and Sessions’s Chief of Staff Jody
Comey). 39‘ Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 8; Hunt 2/1/18 302, at 8. 392 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 8; Hunt-
(Hunt 5/3/17 Notes).
Hunt 2/ 1/17 302, at 2. ‘ 395 Hunt-00002142 (Hunt 5/3/17 Notes) (“1 have foreign leaders saying they
2/1/18 302, at 8. ”6 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 8; Hunt~000022 (Hunt 5/3/17 Notes). 63
The President said that Comey should be removed and asked Sessions and Rosenstein for their views.428 Hunt
-00002627 (Hunt 5/8/17 Notes)
42" Hunt—000027 (Hunt 5/8/17 Notes). 43" McGahn 12/12/17 302, at 14; Dhillon 11/21/17 302, at 7. 43‘
Hunt-000028 (Hunt 5/8/17 Notes)
“32 McGahn 12/12/17 302, at 13. 433 Hunt-00002399 (Hunt 5/8/17 Notes).
colleagues that his own reasons for replacing Comey were “not [the President’s] reasons.”439 On May 9, Hunt
Miller 10/31/17 302, at 12; McGahn 12/12/17 302, at 15; Hunt-000031 (Hunt 5/9/17 Notes). 4‘42 SC_ADF00342
Miller 10/31/17 302, at 12; McGahn 12/12/17 302, at 15; Hunt-000032 (Hunt 5/9/17 Notes). 44“ McGahn
Miller 10/31/17 302, at 12; Dhillon 11/21/17 302, at 8, 10; , Priebus 10/13/17 302, at 27; Hunt 2/1/18
302, at 14-15; Hunt-000032 (Hunt 5/9/17 Notes). 68
The President learned of the Special Counsel’s appointment from Sessions, who was with the President, Hunt
-000039 (Hunt, 5/17/17 Notes). 503 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 13; Hunt 2/1/18 302, at 18; McGahn 12/14
/17 302, at 4; Hunt-000039 (Hunt 5/17/17 Notes). 50“ Hunt-000039 (Hunt 5/17/17 Notes). 505 Hunt-000039
(Hunt 5/17/17 Notes); Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 13-14. 506 Hunt-000040; see Sessions 1/17/ 18 302, at
14. 507 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 14. 508 Hunt-000040 (Hunt 5/17/17 Notes); see Sessions 1/17/18 302
-000041 (Hunt 5/17/17 Notes); Sessions 1/ 17/ 1 8 302, at 14. 51° Hunt-000041 (Hunt 5/17/17 Notes); Sessions
5/18/17 Notes); 5/18/17 Letter, Sessions to President Trump (resigning as Attorney General). 5‘6 Hunt
~000047-49 (Hunt 5/18/17 Notes); Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 14. 5'7 Hunt-000047—49 (Hunt 5/18/17 Notes)
; Sessions 1/ 17/ 18 302, at 14. 5‘8 Hunt-000048419 (Hunt 5/18/17 Notes); Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 14
. 5‘9 Sessions 1/17/18 302, at 14. 52° Hunt-000049 (Hunt 5/18/17 Notes). 52‘ Hunt—00005061 (Hunt 5/
his membership in a Trump golf course in Northern Virginia.529 The President’s advisers pushed 5” Hunt
-000050 (Hunt 5/18/17 Notes); Priebus 10/13/17 302, at 21; Hunt 2/1/18 302, at 21. 523 Hunt-000051 (Hunt
Hunt’s notes state that when Priebus returned from the trip, Priebus told Hunt that the President was
Hunt-000052 (Hunt Notes, undated). 527 Hunt—000052—53 (Hunt 5/3 0/ 17 Notes); 5/18/17 Letter, Sessions
to talk about whether Sessions might be fired or might resign.639 Priebus had previously talked to Hunt
media had reported on tensions between Sessions and the President, and, after speaking to Sessions, Hunt
, who ‘ took contemporaneous notes of the July 21 call, Hunt told Priebus that, as they had previously
discussed, Sessions had no intention of resigning.641 Hunt asked Priebus what the President would 632
2/1/18 302, at 23. 64° Hunt 2/1/18 302, at 23. 6“ Hunt 2/1/18 302, at 2344; Hunt 7/21/17 Notes, at 1
approximately five minutes, the President twice called the Special Counsel’s investigation a “rigged witch hunt
sad thing that happened."876 The President described the Special Counsel’s investigation as “a witch hunt
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