Comey said Trump told him he expected loyalty. What an awful thing for an executive to say to a subordinate!

(Bloomberg) -- Fired FBI Director James Comey said President Trump told him “I need loyalty” when the two dined alone in the White House in January and said he thought the encounter was designed to “create some part of patronage relationship.”

“The President said, ‘I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.”’ Comey said in prepared remarks released Wednesday, a day before his highly anticipated testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. “I didn’t move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other in silence.”

In his testimony, Comey describes in detail his interactions with the president before his May 9 firing by Trump. Comey has coordinated his testimony with Robert Mueller, another former FBI chief who’s now special counsel in charge of investigations into Russian meddling in last year’s campaign and possible ties to those around Trump, according to a person familiar with Comey’s plans.

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