Did President Trump Obstruct Justice?
Tuesday’s bombshell report that President Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to drop the federal investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will almost certainly strengthen a growing consensus among legal scholars that the president may have committed obstruction of justice, an impeachable offense.
The New York Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Comey kept memos of conversations he had with Trump, including one of a conversation in which the president allegedly urged the then-director of the FBI to drop the ongoing federal probe into Flynn. Multiple media outlets have reported the investigation is examining Flynn’s conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak as well as the retired general’s foreign sources of income prior to joining the Trump administration.
“[Flynn] is a that description was “not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and Mr. Comey.”)
