Trump meets with Russian officials right in the middle of the Comey firing scandal, denies access to American press, but lets in Russian press

Less than 24 hours after Trump fired James Comey, raising suspicions that Trump fired him because Comey was expanding the investigation into criminal links between the Trump campaign and Russia, Trump met in the White House with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov and Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey I. Kislyak.

Kislyak's meetings with Trump campaign officials, including now Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is the focus of the FBI investigation James Comey was conducting.

What caught everybody's attention is the fact tha American reporters were not allowed into the meeting, but Russian reporters were. According to The New York Times:

White House officials denied American reporters permission to witness the Oval Office meeting or take photographs, but Russian state news outlets published images taken by their official photographer of a beaming Mr. Trump shaking hands with the envoys. The pictures quickly spread on Twitter.

To make matters even more nixonian, Trump also called Henry Kissinger to the meeting. Kissinger was Richard Nixon's Secretary of State during the Watergate scandal.

Pool brought into the Oval. It's Trump and ... Kissinger. pic.twitter.com/1F1CPO4kQw

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) 10 de mayo de 2017

The timing of the meeting only makes Comey's firing only adds fuel to the accusation that Trump fired Comey because Comey wanted to expand the FBI investigation into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.