Trump ‘engaged in obstruction of justice, an impeachable offence’
Washington — US President Donald Trump is facing the deepest crisis of his presidency after contents of a memo written by James Comey when he was FBI director surfaced on Tuesday, alleging that the president asked him to drop an investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. The White House was already on the defensive over the president’s firing of Comey a week ago and over a report on Monday that Trump disclosed sensitive intelligence to Russian officials. Then another political bombshell exploded on Tuesday night. After a conversation Comey had with Trump in February, a day after Flynn was ousted for what the White House said were misleading accounts of his conversations with Russia’s US ambassador, the FBI director wrote a memo documenting the Oval Office meeting. In it, Comey said the president asked him to abandon the Flynn investigation, according to a person who was given a copy of the memo and spoke on condition of anonymity. "I hope you can let this go," ...
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