Comey to ABC: I Didn't Tell Trump Democrats Paid for Dossier

Former FBI Director James Comey admitted that he did not inform President Donald Trump that Democrats bankrolled the research that resulted in the dossier about him.

In his interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos to promote his book, Comey said he did not inform the president about the source of the financing of the Christopher Steele dossier because doing so "wasn't necessary for my goal."

Stephanopoulos pressed Comey about it, asking him if the president had a right to know who financed the GPS Fusion opposition research that led to the Steele dossier.

"That it had been financed by his political opponents? I don't know the answer to that. It wasn't necessary for my goal, which was to alert him that we had this information," Comey tells Stephanopoulos.

The excerpted interview with Stephanopoulos comes ahead of next week's release of Comey's book titled "A Higher Loyalty."

The book is highly critical of Trump, casting him as "untethered to the truth" and likening him to a mob boss.

Comey has a series of interviews and events to promote the book, prompting the Republican National Committee to take the lead on rebutting the book and anything Comey says about the president.

Comey's full interview with Stephanopoulos airs Sunday night on ABC.

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