Comey’s Trump Tower Meeting Was Used for FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation

While the meeting was described by former FBI Director James Comey as a ‘defensive briefing,’ it was used to gain information from Trump, new IG report reveals

The Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, on Dec. 10, 2018. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Former FBI Director James Comey’s first meeting with then-President-elect Donald Trump appears to have been part of the agency’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign.

Comey has described the Jan. 6, 2017, briefing at Trump Tower as a defensive briefing intended to inform the president-elect of salacious allegations contained in the so-called “Steele dossier.”