Bannon: Trump firing Comey was biggest mistake in 'modern political history'

President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey was perhaps the greatest mistake in “modern political history,” the White House's former chief strategist Steve Bannon suggested in an interview broadcast Sunday night.

Bannon was somewhat cagey in his conversation with CBS’ Charlie Rose as to his true feelings on the firing of Comey, saying only that “it's been reported in the media that I was adamantly opposed to” the dismissal.

But Bannon went on to elaborate that he believes Washington is a “city of institutions, not individuals” and that “I don't believe that the institutional logic of the FBI, and particularly in regards to an investigation, could possibly be changed by changing out the head of it.”

Had Comey never been fired, Bannon told CBS, the bureau’s Russia investigation would not have metastasized into the special investigation currently led by Robert Mueller. Bannon said he did not believe Mueller should be fired and that he had not been privy to conversations on that potentiality during his White House tenure.

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