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Spotlight: White House fights reports over Trump asking Comey to end Flynn probe

2017-05-18 09:40:18       source:Xinhua News Agency

May 17, 2017


"The White House on Tuesday pushed back against a new wave of media allegations that U.S. President Donald Trump might have tried to obstruct justice by asking then FBI Director James Comey to end a probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.


'I hope you can let this go,' Trump told Comey at the time, according to a New York Times report, quoting two people who read the memo Comey wrote shortly after meeting with Trump in the Oval Office one day after Flynn resigned over a Russia-related scandal in February."


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