‘I’m still innocent,’ says Comey as Trump calls him a ‘dirty cop’

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Donald Trump has called the former FBI director, James Comey, a “dirty cop”, Reuters reports.

The US justice department is attempting to prosecute Comey for a third time , on the grounds of sharing sensitive national security information in ⁠2016, according to court documents ⁠made public on Monday.

The case was revealed in a court document known as a “criminal information” that the justice department said ⁠it filed to stop the 10-year statute of limitations on the offense from expiring earlier this month.

The document, filed in Washington federal ⁠court, charges Comey with transmitting and conspiring to transmit national defense information. It alleges he shared classified information with a reporter from ‌the New York Times ‌in October 2016.

“I think he’s a dirty cop,” president Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, when asked about Comey.…