You have to understand PMP and Trumpers thinking, they don’t think Trump lies, they don’t think Trump making a statement like this
And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won,'" Trump said.
They don’t think this means Comey was fired to stop the Russian investigation, they need him to literally say, “I fired Comey to stop the Russian investigation”, even then they would try to twist it, to make Trump innocent, and pure as they believe him to be. PMP and Yrump supporters on this forum are like Jordan, they refuse to believe Trump lies.