When Trump fired Comey on May 9, 2017, he asked Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to hold a news conference. . . . ... After the president fired Comey, the White House issued a statement saying that Trump had acted on a recommendation from the Justice Department. ..…
President Trump did many things that influenced federal investigations into him and his aides, out, including firing FBI Director James Comey, attacking the counsel's work and pressuring former Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse from overseeing Mueller's investigation.. ..…
Flynn investigation: Trump asked FBI director James Comey to stop an investigation into Trump’s then-national security adviser, Michael Flynn, according to Comey. ... Firing of Comey: Trump fired Comey, who was investigating Russian election..…
GLAAD, the nation's top LGBTQ organization, is calling for White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to resign after she admitted to investigators with special counsel Robert Mueller's team that she misled reporters when speaking about President Trump's firing of former FBI Director James..…
Investigators had looked at Trump's response to reports about Russia's support of his campaign, his firing of FBI Director James Comey, his behavior about charges against his former Paul Manafort and former Michael Flynn, and his efforts to get rid of Mueller himself... ..…
In all, revealed 10 areas of obstruction, from Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey to his attempts to thwart Mueller's investigation. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., member of Judiciary Committee, that Trump almost obstructed justice and it was his staff that intervened to prevent..…
The team viewed the obstruction investigation as looking at two distinct phases: before Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, when Trump “deemed it critically important to make public that he was not under investigation”; and after he “became aware that investigators were..…
Analyzing this conduct through the lens of obstruction, Mueller's team writes that substantial evidence corroborated Comey's of Trump telling him to let Flynn investigation go, and that they were able to establish that Trump connected Flynn to FBI's Russia investigation. Next,..…
The Justice Department, at that time, had been conducting a probe of Russia’s 2016 election meddling and possible coordination with Trump’s campaign. ... Comey, admitting later to NBC’s Lester Holt in a television interview that the DOJ probe was on his mind when he did so. . ..…
On the evening of May 9, 2017, the day he terminated Comey, Trump told his communications team he was angry about how the media was covering the matter. ... Trump wanted Rosenstein to say it was his idea, rather than Trump’s, to fire Comey. ..…
It showed how Trump's actions crossed the threshold for case when Trump confronted former FBI Director James Comey to let Michael Flynn go when Trump fired Comey when Trump directed his former White House counsel Don McGahn to shut down Mueller and when..…
By publicly announcing that the Before Comey's May 3, 2017, Trump had said it would be the last straw if Comey did not take the opportunity to set the straightPresident was not under investigation, Mueller report says, citing then- White House counsel McGahn.. ..…
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