{"id":27598,"date":"2017-05-17T14:16:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T21:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27598"},"modified":"2017-05-17T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T21:16:44","slug":"more-obstruction-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/more-obstruction-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"More Obstruction of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had no doubt that Putin’s Puppet, Fuhrer Donald Trump, was obstructing justice, when he fired Sally Yates to stop her investigation into his treason.  It became even more clear when he fired James Comey for the same reason.  When admitted that it was because of "the Russia thing", he removed all doubt.  Nut now, it is so obvious that even some Republicans are taking notice.<\/font><\/p>\n

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President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump\u2019s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February<\/strong>, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you can let this go,\u201d the president told Mr. Comey, according to the memo.<\/p>\n

The documentation of Mr. Trump\u2019s request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the Justice Department and F.B.I. investigation into links between Mr. Trump\u2019s associates and Russia<\/strong>. Late Tuesday, Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, demanded that the F.B.I. turn over all \u201cmemoranda, notes, summaries and recordings\u201d of discussions between Mr. Trump and Mr. Comey.<\/p>\n

Such documents, Mr. Chaffetz wrote, would \u201craise questions as to whether the president attempted to influence or impede\u201d the F.B.I.\\<\/p>\n

Mr. Comey wrote the memo detailing his conversation with the president immediately after the meeting, which took place the day after Mr. Flynn resigned<\/a>, according to two people who read the memo. It was part of a paper trail Mr. Comey created documenting what he perceived as the president\u2019s improper efforts to influence a continuing investigation. An F.B.I. agent\u2019s contemporaneous notes are widely held up in court as credible evidence of conversations.<\/p>\n

Mr. Comey shared the existence of the memo with senior F.B.I. officials and close associates. The New York Times has not viewed a copy of the memo, which is unclassified, but one of Mr. Comey\u2019s associates read parts of it to a Times reporter… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <NY Times<\/a><\/font>><\/font><\/p>\n

Here is Rachel Maddow<\/a> interviewing Mike Schmidt the reporter who broke the story in the above article.<\/font><\/p>\n