Donald Trump has fired a lot of people in his life, but no dismissal is as shocking or has such widespread implications as his termination of FBI Director James Comey . The move made Trump only the second president in US history to fire his FBI director. Comey was leading the investigation into whether Trump campaign members colluded with Russians who hacked the 2016 election. The Trump administration said it was getting rid of Comey because of the way he handled the Hillary Clinton email probe. >> What you need to know about this Washington bombshell