Begging to be accused of obstruction
By Aaron Blake
May 19 at 4:58 PM
... Trump fired.. Comey .. then .. spent the next two days doing whatever he could to make it look like .. obstruction of justice ...
After two days of the White House claiming the Justice Department had initiated Comey's firing .. because of the .. Clinton investigation, Trump ... blurted out that he was determined to fire Comey all along and that the Russia investigation was on his mind when he decided ...
... the New York Times is reporting that, in a meeting with top Russian officials on the day in-between — .. the .. meeting in which he gave .. classified information to those .. Russians — Trump expressed relief at having taken Comey off his tail.
“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Trump said, according to a document summarizing the meeting that a U.S. official read to the Times. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off” ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/19/trump-is-practically-begging-to-be-accused-of-obstruction-of-justice/?utm_term=.76974f1f5e06
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