6 committee, taking the Fifth in response to questions about whether he believes in the peaceful transfer of power. He was most recently in the news due to a video appearance before the Jan. 'I had understood the president to be requesting that we drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in December,' he told the Senate Intelligence Committee in June 2017.įlynn was convicted - but was pardoned by Trump after the 2020 election. I hope you can let this go.' The request made Comey nervous. Comey testified that Trump said: 'I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. 'And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won,' Trump told Holt.Ĭomey reported that Trump had leaned on him - during a dinner on Valentine's Day in 2017 - to go easy in the bureau's investigation of Mike Flynn, the former national security advisor who eventually pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. 'He was not doing a good job.' But in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt, Trump seemed to hint that the firing stemmed from anger over ongoing investigations into his campaign's possible involvement with Russia in the 2016 election. Why? 'Because he wasn't doing a good job, simply,' he told reporters.

Here's everything you need to know:Įarly in his presidential term, Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

This isn't the first time Trump has faced questions about interfering with the various investigations into his activities. 'This has been an ongoing pattern and we're trying to send the message that witness tampering is a crime in the United States of America,' said Rep. And that has raised concerns among investigators trying to get to the bottom of the insurrection. That person was a member of the White House support staff during Trump's presidency, CNN later revealed. 'That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump's call, and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. 'After our last hearing, President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation - a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings,' Cheney revealed this week. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has certainly been hinting at that possibility. Is Donald Trump trying to undermine the work of the Jan.

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