Mr. Trump has denied that he tried to impede the F.B.I. investigation into Mr. Flynn, portraying Mr. Comey, who wrote contemporaneous memos about his talks with Mr. Trump before the president fired him, as a liar. “If they want to argue factually that Trump fired Comey because he thought he was a bad F.B.I. “I feel badly for General Flynn,” Mr. Trump said on Monday as he left the White House for an event in Utah. Mr. Trump compared Mr. Flynn’s case to the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information.

Source: New York Times December 04, 2017 23:55 UTC