WASHINGTON –
The American president Donald Trump has to the recently dismissed director of the FBI, James Comey, asked the investigation into the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn to lay down. This is reported by The New York Times Tuesday on the basis of a memo from Comey.
The FBI director wrote the memo shortly after a visit to the White House in February in which Trump his request, according to Comey did. ,,I hope you can let go”, would Trump against him have said about the federal investigation into the safety adviser.
The meeting had a day after Flynn was resigned. In the memo dedicates the former FBI director about the details of that conversation. The report is accessed by two people who are close to Comey were, in their turn, The New York Times inlichtten. The newspaper has the memo or a copy of it is never seen.
Flynn had, after barely a month in service, resign when it turned out that he was vice-president Mike Pence had wrongly informed about his earlier contacts with Russian officials after the presidential elections. In addition, defaulted Flynn also that he is in 2015 with a paid-for visit to Russia, and when a conversation had with president Putin.
Comey was last week as head of the federal criminal police on the side, because he, according to the president’s work. The measure is controversial, because Comey was in charge of the investigation of potential Russian interference in the presidential elections. The FBI is investigating whether trustees and employees of Trump have conspired with Moscow to the outcome of the vote to influence.